Bill workshop

This is the practical side of energy shopping: read a meter-based bill, convert cents to dollars, compare identical usage under two offers, and test whether changing your schedule would make a time-of-use plan worthwhile. Every numerical example is illustrative. The calculators use the numbers you enter and do not retrieve offers or transmit your entries.

Start with the monthly electricity bill walkthrough if your statement feels unfamiliar. Then collect the supply rate, delivery charges, service fees, and billing dates separately. Use the same billing period for both sides of a comparison. A summer cooling month is a useful stress test but is not a substitute for twelve months of usage. Natural gas requires extra attention to units: a volume reading in Ccf is not automatically the same as therms of heat. The gas conversion guide explains where to find the appropriate conversion factor on your own bill.

The workshop also covers electric vehicle charging, appliance running costs, and supplier switching costs. These are arithmetic tools for making assumptions visible, not promises of savings. If your tariff has demand charges, minimum usage rules, multiple time bands, or credits with thresholds, calculate those separately using the actual tariff.