"Many people don't realize that there's an art to reading a power bill," says Lin Kuan-chia, one of TGPF's managers. He explains that TaiPower uses multiple formulas to calculate its customers 'electrical bills. A typical households pays a per-unit rate multiplied by the number of units on the meter. In this case, the company makes no adjustments for peak consumption periods.
「很多人不知道，光是分析電費單就有很大學問，」綠基會林冠嘉經理解釋，台灣電力公司計算電費的方式分很多種，一般家庭用戶按表計費，沒有尖離峰時間的差別，用多少度電就付多少錢，民眾只能靠隨手關燈、拔掉不用電器的插頭來節能。