How an Indian C&I electricity bill actually works

A commercial or industrial electricity bill in India arrives as one total and explains none of it. These pages take the charges apart one at a time. Every tariff figure is sourced to the published order it comes from, and every page tells you how to check the same thing on your own bill.

kVAh Billing vs kWh Billing: Why Your Units Do Not Match Your MeterkWh is active energy, kVAh is apparent energy. On kVAh billing a poor power factor raises the units you are charged for. With the arithmetic and a worked table.

What is coming next

Maximum demand charges and how the kVA figure on your bill is set; power factor penalty and incentive; Karnataka HT tariff charge by charge; time-of-day tariffs in Karnataka and in Maharashtra. Each publishes when its figures have been checked against the order, not before.