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Understanding Your Gas bills
To help you to under stand your gas bill we have put together a simple guide. An example of your Gas bill can be seen below.
Your gas bill is made of certain parts:
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The name of your current supplier on the top and their contact details.
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Your unique account number with them. Note this may be a different number for gas and electricity accounts if you have both fuels with the same supplier.
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The break down of your bill, this is made up of:
- Either estimated or actual gas meter readings. It is important to keep your meter readings regularly up to date to avoid being under billed or over billed for your gas supply.
- Your gas meter should be read on a regular basis, however this does not always happen. Our tip is to take a gas meter reading ever 3 months and tell your supplier by either calling them or by giving the meter readings through an online managed account.
- The amount you have to pay is based on the difference between your current and previous gas meter readings multiplied by the unit rate you have to pay. The unit rate is normally shown excluding VAT.
- An example is if your current gas meter reading is 8761 and the previous meter reading was 8425, the difference is 3825 kWh (kilo watt hours or units) of gas used. Multiply this by your gas unit rate and that is how much you will have to pay for your gas usage for the period of the gas bill.
- If there is a standing charge for your gas bill this will be shown on the bill as a separate charge. Some gas suppliers have a standing charge and some gas suppliers do not. If they do not the unit rate you pay will be a little more than if you have one but the only way to check if it is financially better off for you to have on is by using our energy price comparison service.
- VAT is added to the bill at the current rate of 5% for domestic customers.
- The final part of your gas bill shows the amount you have to pay.
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One key number on your bill is the mprn or meter point reference number. This number is required if you want to switch gas suppliers in the future as it is the number the new gas supplier will need to supply you with gas.
If you do have any queries on your gas bill, you can always contact your current gas supplier.
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