What's Your Electric Bill?
Meters aren't set back each month when the meter reader comes around. The difference in the readings from one month to the next shows how many kilowatt-hours have been used. If you know your electric rates, you can figure your bill by yourself. Your power supplier will furnish you with a rate schedule on request.
Figure 3. See if you can read the above correctly. The answers are shown in a box on the next page.
It will be interesting to you to find out how much it costs to operate the various electric appliances in your home. A sample rate schedule is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Sample rate schedule. Note that as the use of electricity increases, the average cost per kwh is reduced.