My Electricity Bill Arrived

A brown recycled paper envelope appeared in the mail last week. Yes the long awaited Electricity Bill arrived. Yeah!! The first bill since the installation of the Feed-In Meter for my Solar Panels. On opening the bill a number of questions were immediately answered.
1. Was the Bill accurate?  - Yes it seemed to be as we had taken various readings throughout the months - amount of electricity generated, used from the grid and exported to the grid.
2. Did we retain our Peak/Off-Peak Tariff? Yes indeed we did - with a charge of 26.381 c/ KwH Peak, and 9.818 c/KwH for Off-Peak.
3. Did we get the 0.66cents Feed-In Tariff promised by our suppler. No!! This created some consternation which was satisfied by reading the fine print on our suppliers web page. It seems that the 66 cents Feed-In Tariff  needed to be gained by signing a contract which, on reading, indicated we would lose our Peak/Off-Peak rates. As we had asked to keep these we don't get the 66 cents rate. The billed Feed-in rate is 23.5 c/KwH instead.
4. How does this affect the yearly electricity costs?? Out comes our Excel sheet and using the figures from 2009 winter usage and the meter readings for Jan - Mar 2010, we are ahead by almost $100 by keeping the off-peak.
5. Can we negotiate having the best of both worlds? 66c and Peak/Off-Peak. I will try, but am not sure the supplier will come to the party. I'll keep you posted on that.

So more calculations will come to develop an accurate cost & usage picture for the year.