How To Calculate The Cost Of Electricity

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How To Calculate The Cost Of Electricity
How To Calculate The Cost Of Electricity

Video: How To Calculate The Cost Of Electricity

Video: How To Calculate The Cost Of Electricity
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The owner of the house or apartment must calculate the cost of electricity consumed per month, based on the meter readings. For someone who makes such a calculation regularly, this procedure does not cause any difficulty, but when making calculations for the first time, one may encounter certain difficulties.

How to calculate the cost of electricity
How to calculate the cost of electricity

It is necessary

  • - receipt of payment for electricity supply services;
  • - current meter readings ("final indicator");
  • - meter readings at the time of payment for electricity last month ("initial indicator");
  • - the size of the tariff for paying for electricity in the current month.

Instructions

Step 1

Find an electricity meter that is not always located in an open area, and is sometimes placed in a special vandal-proof cabinet or box. If the door of such a cabinet is transparent, then you do not need to open it, it is enough to see the counter dial and rewrite all the numbers from it, not forgetting to separate the last of them from the rest of the number with a comma. This number is the final figure that will need to be entered on the receipt of payment for the services for supplying your home with electricity.

Step 2

Take a receipt for payment and find in it the columns "initial indicator", "final indicator" and "expense". You learned the final indicator by removing the current indicators from the counter - enter its value in the appropriate column, rounded to whole (the first five numbers to the decimal point). Then fill in the "initial indicator" column - this is the meter reading that was recorded at the time of the previous payment a month ago, it should be indicated in the same receipt.

Step 3

Subtract the initial from the final indicator, thereby obtaining the number of kilowatts consumed per month, and enter the value in the "consumption" column. Now it remains to find out the tariff for paying for electricity in the current month - the tariff is indicated in the payment receipt. Multiply the consumption (the number of consumed kilowatts) by the tariff (the price per kilowatt) and get the amount that you have to pay for electricity in a given month or "for light", as people say.

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