The high bills of the last two years have taught us that paying attention to domestic consumption is an excellent way to save and avoid unpleasant surprises at the end of the month and, no less importantly, to reduce the environmental impact of domestic activities.
Activating the electricity and gas contract with the supplier who offers the best kWh price is undoubtedly essential for saving, but equally important is monitor correctly i own consumption: here are some useful tips for doing so.
Read your bills carefully to monitor your consumption
Gas and energy suppliers are required by law to report a series of information regarding utilities on their bills. By reading it carefully, one discovers that the bill both paper and online contains much more data than the simple one amount to be paid: data that can help you monitor your gas and energy consumption and optimize it. Among the expense items, for example, there are the cost of matter energy and those of transportation and management which, if compared, can give useful information on the conditions applied by the individual supplier. Of the graphs they often show how electricity or gas consumption has varied during the day or on different days of the week or from one month to another in the case of bimonthly or quarterly bills and can provide valuable insights to improve your household habits. The most traditional way, in short, to monitor electricity and gas consumption is to study and compare billseven from year to year.
Apps from suppliers (and others) help monitor electricity and gas consumption
The supplier app they make this task simpler and more immediate, already for the simple fact of having all the information at your fingertips, without having to search for sheets or files. Developed for the consumption of users who have little time to dedicate to managing home utilities, these apps generally provide smart others tips for saving on electricity and gas consumption: sometimes these are more advantageous offers that the company reserves for customers of the same profile, other times practical advice such as the moments of the day in which it is best to concentrate the various domestic activities especially if you have a time slot tariff. Even some independent apps they do something similar and, that is, they show the various domestic consumptions in aggregate: once installed, however, they must be correctly combined with the domestic systems, taking into account that the greater the degree of integration, the better the insights received will be.
The ARERA portal: the official tool for monitoring your consumption
The Consumer Portal it is, finally, the official instrument ofARERA – the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment – which allows you to monitor your gas and energy consumption. You can access with the SPID of the user account holder. Inside, as well as a series of general information on the supply such as the activation date, the type of user and contract, the last reading, etc., can be found every detail on consumption. The latter are divided by periods, with the possibility of selecting only the interval or intervals of interest and choosing between that in the table is that in graphs the type of display you prefer.
