![]() You can even divert some of your power usage to renewable sources like solar panels. Not always you have to save energy to save your bill. ![]() Experiment with a timer and find out how long you really need AC. Though AC helps in inducing sleep, it doesn't help keep you in sleep and it goes useless. Most appliances that we use for a long time are low powered and vice versa and one exception to this is AC. These days, most appliances are stickered with details about their electricity consumption. Lights, Sounds consume negligible amounts. Generally equipment that involves cooling or heating takes a lot of electricity. Running that for 8 hours for 60 days will bring it to 480 Kwh = 480 Units Now consider the 1kW air conditioner, about 100 times the energy usage of the bulb. How much is a Unit?Ĭonsider the 10W LED bulb that runs for 8 hours for 60 days.ġ0 W x 8hr/day x 60 days=> 4800Wh => 4.8 Kwh = 4.8 Units These cliffs are unpredictable and they could follow a more granular approach where each additional unit costs a little extra than the previous one. Though the intention is appreciable the implementation can be better. It offers subsidies to those who can’t afford.Tier based pricing works out for two obvious reasons: Is that fair?įree plan is great and people under this limit don't even have to pay that fixed charge which makes things easy for everyone. Is the TNEB fare fair?Īnyone can write a blog or website and can fix the issue with the way the pricing is presented but what about the pricing itself. ![]() Previously in old pricing it was Rs.630 and people around this would have seen around 50% unpredictable jumps in pricing. You can see a cliff between 500 and 501 with difference of Rs.233 which makes the 501st unit the most expensive unit. The cost per unit columns convey your savings for every unit on your bill (assuming you won’t save that much getting down the tier). The first 100 units are free for all tiers. Soon they will have UPI auto-pay and you'll be just notified. Even for a side mission, they are offering the most convenient options available:online payments were available a decade ago, and UPI is also integrated today. Their main mission is to wire the whole state, balance the demand and supply, and ensure safety. It is easy for us to criticize TNEB for not having a better pricing page but it’s probably a side mission that works with minimum viability and everything on top of it, is nice to have. You have to do a bunch of mathematical gymnastics before you figure out how you fit into the different slabs in the different bands and where the government subsidies apply, what fixed charges exist and so on. For example, the costs are collected by one organization in the government while the subsidies are offered by the State Government. This creates confusion for the common public since these factors are independent of each other. There are three major factors that decide the pricing: Instead, they could have embedded the table on their website, with an option to download a PDF. It’s difficult to zoom and pan to read on a mobile device. PDF’s are great and I have a huge respect for the format but it really lacks responsiveness. There is a tariff but sadly, it is a PDF. However, it doesn’t give anything useful about your consumption and how it is mapped. Issues with TNEB Pricing PageĬredit where credit is due, TNEB has a bill calculator which shows the different kinds of charges and subsidies applied. There are certain issues with understanding the billing, and here’s my take. I believe this incentivizes people to save energy, especially since this pricing is also subsidized by the government.īut this pricing is not really transparent for someone who is looking at it for the first time. The pricing is tier-based, so you pay for what you use. Electricity has one default provider TNEB with one billing model for all domestic users: use as much as you want and pay once every two months. Electricity bills aren’t telecom plans with multiple providers who try to sell you the higher plans. We don’t know or have to care about the pricing options because we really don’t have any options. But when I say that this blog is “powered by TNEB'', I mean it literally and not figuratively - it’s TNEB’s power that runs my laptop, powers the modem, and lets me write this blog. Usually this is a figurative message the content is not literally powered by the sponsor. Powered by sponsor_name is something we are all familiar with.
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