How to read your electricity bill

How to read your electricity bill

The total electricity use is generally clearly stated on your bill, but you may have to do the following:

• If you have off peak hot water the off peak use is listed separately, so you must add the off peak amount to the regular tariff amount to get total kWh.
• If the price has changed during the billing period, the earlier and later periods are listed separately and must be added to get total use.

Many companies show greenhouse gas emissions on your bill, which is interesting but is not the number we want for the kilowatt challenge.