Meanings of new meter in English

Ovo Energy informed me that unless I moved in, I couldn't have a new meter for weeks.

Montagna took the new meter and walked up to the sealed boxes, circling each one in turn.

When the new meter finally came, it had a note on it demanding that it not be stolen.

When I got back downstairs, the installer, Dave Fong, had arrayed the obviously branded new meter on my stairs.

The New Yorker, January 30, 1926 P. 7 Friend complains caught in taxi with new meter.

At that moment, a black car pulled up at the corner, and tw more men got out and went up to the first new meter.

But will the new meters do anything to change the energy usage patterns that have Americans using five times more energy than the world average?