Electricity bill calculator Bihar:
Enter the total unit consumption as per BERC or enter the initial & final reading of the meter. Then press the calculate button to get the Bihar electricity bill amount, tax, energy charges, per unit charges etc.
Bihar Electricity Per Unit Rate 2023-2024:
Bihar electricity is the highest charging electricity board in India. According to the latest tariff, the electricity bill shall be charged by three categories such as Kutir Jyoti, Domestic supply-1 rural and Domestic Supply 2.
BPL consumer or the consumer who consumes 50 units per month by average, they will come into the Kutir Jyoti scheme. In that, they shall pay ₹ 7.57 per unit for the consumption of the first 50 units. And additionally they have to pay fixed charges ₹ 20 per service during each billing cycle.
If a consumer consumes more than 50 units per month in a rural area (including BPL) or the connected load up to 2kW, they shall pay on DS1 rural category tariff. In that, the consumer shall pay ₹ 7.57 for the 0 to 50 units, ₹ 8.11 per unit for the consumption for all above 50 units. Additionally, the DS1 consumer shall pay ₹40 per kW per month demand load as fixed charges.
DS 2 Category is applicable for consumers whose connected load is 2kW to 5kW for both single-phase and three-phase connection. In that, for the first 100 unit the per unit cost will be ₹ 7.57 and 100 units it will be ₹9.1 per unit, Additionally, the consumer shall pay ₹80 per kW per month as fixed charges.
For 11kV domestic consumer shall pay ₹40 per kW as fixed charges along with the flat ₹ 8.1 per unit flat rate for all the consumption.
Along with the electricity bill, the consumer shall pay 6% as electricity duty charges.
| Power Range | Per unit(₹) | Fixed Charge | |
| Kutir Jothi | 0-50 | 7.57 | 20 |
| above 51 | Below table | ||
| DS-1 (upto 2kW) | 0-50 | 7.57 | 40 per kW |
| above 50 | 8.11 | ||
| DS-2 (2kW to 5kW) | 0-100 | 7.57 | 80 Per kW |
| above 101 | 9.1 | ||
| DS-3 (above 5kW) | All | 9.18 | 80 Per kW |
Bihar Commercial tariff Order:
| Power Range | Per unit(₹) | Fixed Charge | |
| Commercial -1 Rural | 0-100 | 7.94 | 30 Per kW |
| above 101 | 8.36 | ||
| Commercial -2 (Small Shop) | All | 7.88 | 200 |
| Commercial -3 (upto 70kW) | 0-100 | 7.88 | 300 Per kW |
| above 101 | 9.08 |
Commercial consumer has two tariff slats such as demand based and non demand based tariff.
Electricity Bill calculation in Bihar:
Example:
Let we calculate the total electricity bill for the Bihar’s consumer who lives in a rural area and they consumed 350 units in a month with the connected load of 2kW.
Look at the bill breakup, for the first 50 units the cost is ₹ 378.8(50 x 7.57), for next 300 units, the bill is 2433/- (300x 8.11). Fixed charges 80 as connected load 2kW x 40 per kW cost.
| Example – Single Phase – One Month -350 – 2kW Connected Load | |||
| Range | Electricity Per unit | Unit Consumption | Bill amount |
| 0-50 | 7.57 | 50 | 378.5 |
| >50 | 8.11 | 300 | 2433 |
| Energy Charges | 2811.5 | ||
| Fixed Cost | 80 | ||
| Duty | 21 | ||
| Total | 2912.5 | ||
Hence consumer shall pay ₹ 2912.5 as electricity bill.
Let us taken another example for the Domestic consumer consumes 765 unit with connected load of 6kW.
| Example – Single Phase – One Month -765 – 6 kW Connected Load | |||
| Range | Electricity Per unit | Unit Consumption | Bill amount |
| All | 9.18 | 765 | 7022.7 |
| Energy Charges | 7022.7 | ||
| Fixed Cost | 480 | ||
| Duty | 45.9 | ||
| Total | 7548.6 | ||
Reference:
Electricity tariff order bihar
