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Sample Bill

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Billing Terms:
Estimated Bill – This indicates we could not obtain an actual meter reading. The next actual reading will adjust for any differences between actual and estimated use.

Budget Billing Plan – A free service offered to residential customers to evenly distribute your electricity costs over the year.  For more information on UI's Budget Billing plan, click here.

Kilowatt-Hour (kWh) – A measure of electricity, one kWh equals one thousand watts used for one hour. If you use one 100-watt bulb for ten hours, you use one kWh. The number of kWh’s on your bill is the total you used for the days covered by this bill.

Late Payment Charge – This is a charge for the unpaid and overdue portion of the previous bill minus payments and credits. It is calculated at the percentage shown on this bill.

Competitive Transition Assessment (CTA) – To allow your electric distribution company to recover past prudent investments in generation assets (called stranded costs), as approved by the DPUC.

Combined Public Benefits Charge is the combination of the following three charges:

• Conservation and Load Management Program – This is the charge to fund programs that promote energy conservation and efficiency.
• Renewable Energy Investment – To fund programs that promote the use of renewable (or environmentally friendly) fuel sources, such as solar power, wind, fuel cells, methane gas from landfills, biomass, trash-to-energy and water.
• Systems Benefit Charge – For funding public costs such as public education, hardship protection and nuclear plant decommissioning.

Transmission Charge – For delivering electricity over high voltage lines.

Distribution Charge – For delivering the electricity over the poles and wires to customer homes and businesses.

Generation Services Charge – For producing your electric energy (open to competition).

*RMR Contracts “Reliability Must Run” – payments that assure that certain generating facilities continue to operate.

*System Congestion: Incremental costs associated with operating less economic generation due to transmission system limitations.

* Part of Federally Mandated Congestion Costs, any cost imposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as part of the New Englad Standard Market Design.