Dekalos

Check your power bill

Your rate schedule, as the utility filed it, written out for your month.

Your utility, the schedule on your bill, and two figures from it. The page prices the month’s base charges the way the filed tariff does, and says whether another of the utility’s schedules may fit. Nothing leaves this page until you send it.

The utility that delivers your power, named on the bill. Where Texas lets you choose your electricity provider, that’s the delivery company (the TDU, such as Oncor), not your provider.

Printed near the meter readings as the rate, the rate schedule or the service classification.

Your schedule not listed? Send the bill and we’ll price it by hand.

The month’s total kilowatt-hours, from the meter reading section.

The demand the bill charges on, in kilowatts. If the bill shows no demand at all, enter 0.

A commercial power bill is two things stacked together: the rate schedule, which the utility files with its state regulator and must charge as written, and the lines added on top of it. This page prices the first. The schedule is often a choice, and the same month can cost very different amounts on two schedules from the same utility.

Nothing you type leaves this page: the page is blocked from sending anything you enter, and the figures go only when you send them from your own email.

Another utility? A bill from any utility can still be reviewed: send one bill. How a power bill charges for demand, and for the wrong schedule, is on the electricity page. Each utility’s filed charges, as tables, are on one page per utility.