Understanding Your Bill

Bozrah Light and Power sends each customer a monthly bill for utility services. This website is aimed at helping you to understand the information it contains. For personal assistance, please feel free to call one of our Customer Service Representatives at 860-889-7388.

BLP Bill 2023
  1. Payment Stub: The top portion of you bill is perforated so you can tear it off and return it to us with your payment.  
  2. Past Due Date:  Your monthly bill is due upon receipt and becomes past due after 15 days. If you are having trouble paying your bill, please contact Customer Service at 860-889-7388
  3. Usage: Middle section shows your utilities usage for the month, based on readings. Your average daily usage for each utility service is also included.
  4. Payments / Past Due Charges: Any payments and/or past due balances will appear in this section of the bill.
  5. Current Charges: Any current charges will appear in this section. 
  6. Usage History: Graphs at the lower left display your usage history for the past 12 months, so you can see how much electricity and/or water you have used in the past.
  7. Budget Plan: If you are on our Budget Billing Plan, a detailed account of your personal plan is in a box at the left center portion of the bill.

Bozrah Back of Bill

 

Late Charges

Bills are due when received and past due 15 days after billing. Past due bills are subject to 1.00% late charge and will be assessed with the next bill if payment is not received before billing.

Readiness to Serve and Basic Service Charge

This charge covers the costs of providing your service, including meter reading, billing and maintenance of service lines and meters on your premises. The basics service charges cover fixed costs; they will be billed to you whether or not you have consumption.

KWH

This abbreviation stands for kilowatt-hour, the standard measure of electricity. A kilowatt-hour equals 1,000 watt-hours of electricity use. One KWH of electricity will light a 100-watt bulb for 10 hours.

Transmission Cost Adjustment

An adjustment will be applied to every KWh sold to reflect any difference between the base transmission costs included in rates and the actual transmission costs charged.   

T & D Charge

This charge covers the cost for transmission and Distribution cost. (Solar/Net Metering Rate only).

Purchased Power Adjustment

This charge or credit reflects differences in the monthly wholesale cost of our purchased power. It includes fixed, variable, and fuel costs.

Sales Tax

Commercial class customers are required by the State of Connecticut to pay sales tax on the electric portion of their bill.

General Information


Meter Readings

All services are read and billed monthly. When we cannot obtain an actual reading, we base your bill on an estimate of your usage.