How to Read Electricity Bill?

After the metre reading is done, I always receive a message where the total electricity consumption is mentioned. I try to calculate it before I get the actual bill and even though it is not accurate, it is very close to the bill amount. Many of you might be trying to know how to read electricity bill yourself at home to know the bill amount forehand. I can help you out with it so read this answer to know how. 

First, do know that 1 unit of electricity means 1 kWh or 1 kilowatt-hour

Suppose you have a 100-watt bulb in your house

The amount of electricity required to lit this bulb for 10 hours will be 1 unit of electricity

That means 100*10 = 1000 watt-hour = 1kWh = 1 unit power

Now let's do the calculation. 

• To calculate the power consumption of a month, you have to subtract the current meter reading from the last month’s meter reading 

• Next your task is to know the energy charge that you can get by multiplying the units by per unit charges

• Suppose it is Rs 4.22 for 1-100 units; Rs 5.02 for 101-200 units and Rs 5.87 for 210-300 units. So if you have used 250 units in a month, your charge will be

  (100*4.22 + 100*5.02 + 50*5.87) = Rs 1218

• Total energy bill= fixed charge of Rs 40 + energy duty of Rs 38 + Rs 1218 = Rs 1296

I hope now you have understood how to read electricity bill.