New York
Your bills show which habits cost you money.
Joule Compass reads your electric bills, explains every charge in plain language, and shows the few changes in when and how you use power that would actually lower them — with the source of every figure.
Start with whatever bills you have — even one tells you something, and a year tells you the most. It all happens in your browser, and nothing you type is kept.
From a made-up year
SampleElectricity is doing heating work
about $2,329 a year to gain
Your usage rises 1.50 kWh for every heating degree day. Over the last year that is about 9886 kWh — roughly 58% of everything you used — tracking the cold. For comparison, homes that heat with gas typically show near zero on this measure; homes that heat with electricity show a fraction of a kWh per degree day.
1.50 kWh per heating degree day, fitted across 24 periods, model R² = 1.00
What your bills tell you
Worth doing
The few changes in when and how you use power that are worth real money, with the yearly figure worked out from your own bills.
Your rights
What New York's rules say you are owed — a payment agreement, for instance — and whether your bills show you qualify.
How you compare
Your rate against the state average for the same months, your usage against homes on your own utility, and whether the weather was unusual.
Worth knowing
Every charge in plain language beside your utility's own wording, and which lines are worth your attention.
We checked
Whether your bills hold together — and when an estimated reading or a gap means one deserves a closer look.
Start with what you have
You do not need a full year to begin. Each bill you add lets Joule Compass say something it could not before — and it says when it does not have enough to go on, instead of guessing.
- 1 billWhat you pay per kilowatt-hour, against the New York average for the same month.
- 3 or moreWhether those months were colder or milder than normal, so you know how much was weather.
- 9 or moreHow strongly your usage follows the cold — the sign that electricity is doing heating work.
- 12 or moreYearly dollar figures, a fair comparison with homes on your utility, and for a business, whether you qualify for a payment agreement.
Also on every bill
Joule Compass checks your bills against the rules New York utilities publish — estimated readings, late fees, whether you are on the rate your usage calls for. When something does not line up, it gives you the question to ask. A difference is a question, never an accusation.
Where it works
Bills from National Grid, Con Edison, NYSEG, RG&E, Central Hudson, Orange & Rockland and PSEG Long Island. For a single National Grid bill you can also see every charge priced from the filed rates — what we cover.