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reconciling estimated vs actual electricity bill?
I am working out a way to make sure they tally up, i.e. that i am not
paying the same consumption twice. i have went over my last few bills and found various complications. i have received bill s for estimated consumption, & acutal consumption, for periods of variying numbers of days with dates which overlap. does anyone here bother to check their bills? do you use some kind of software or excel sheet to do it? thx |
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reconciling estimated vs actual electricity bill?
"s" wrote in message oups.com... I am working out a way to make sure they tally up, i.e. that i am not paying the same consumption twice. i have went over my last few bills and found various complications. i have received bill s for estimated consumption, & acutal consumption, for periods of variying numbers of days with dates which overlap. does anyone here bother to check their bills? do you use some kind of software or excel sheet to do it? thx Don't understand the problem unless you get hit with an unexpected whopper of a bill one month because of a bad estimate. If you have an estimated bill you'll be billed for more or less than your actual usage for that month but the next time the meter is read you'll be billed for an amount that's off by a corresponding amount in the opposite direction so that it all balances out. At least on my bill they provide an estimated meter reading. If I start with a meter reading of 1000 and next month it's estimated at 1600 when it was actually 1500, I pay for 100 too much (600 instead of 500). Next month when they read the meter at 2000, I'll pay for 100 less than I actually used (400 instead of 500), but the total is still going to be correct, 1000 for the 2 months. Even if the bill is estimated several months in a row, everything will balance out once it does get read. How can the dates overlap? I would only expect to see one meter reading per month. If you think you're getting ripped off, take your own meter readings. They may not match the utilities' each month, but the total usage after several months should be close. |
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reconciling estimated vs actual electricity bill?
Call your utility!
Their people deal with this all the time. The whole thing is so complex it takes some deep thought, especially with estimated billing. Since every utility/state/region has different rate structures there won't be prebuilt tool for you. RickR |
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reconciling estimated vs actual electricity bill?
"s" writes:
I am working out a way to make sure they tally up, i.e. that i am not paying the same consumption twice. i have went over my last few bills and found various complications. i have received bill s for estimated consumption, & acutal consumption, for periods of variying numbers of days with dates which overlap. does anyone here bother to check their bills? do you use some kind of software or excel sheet to do it? If you're worried about this, call in an actual meter reading every billing period. So long as they do an actual read every couple of months, I can't imagine a utility's software so screwed up that they'd double charge you even if dates overlap. The estimated usage routines in software estimates a meter read, and bill estimated cosumption based on that then the next actual meter read should make everything square for y'all. If an actual read ends up to be less than the previous estimated meter read, you would end up with a credit. Software wise, it's trivial, so I'd have a tough time worrying about a utility screwing that up. Screwing up the meter reads or estimates is always possible, but if a bill comes that's way out of wack, just compare your meter to the estimated meter read, and go about your day. Where you can get screwed is estimates of final or initial reads when you take over a premises, or if the meter is faulty. Best Regards, -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
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