How to Read Your Energy Bill: The Old Way vs. The New Way

In a country where household energy debt has soared to a record £3.85 billion, understanding where your money is going has never been more critical. Yet your energy bill, the one document that should provide clarity, often delivers only confusion.

There are two paths to find out if you’re overpaying. There’s the traditional, manual way—a deep dive into the numbers that can feel out of reach for many. And then, there’s the new, simple way.

Let’s walk through both.

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Part 1: The Old Way (The Manual Method)

To manually check if you’re getting a good deal, you have to become an energy detective. But decoding your bill is only the first step. To actually switch, you need to gather a whole file’s worth of information.

Step 1: Decode Your Bill & Find Your Usage

First, you need to locate these key pieces of data on your bill:

Your Standing Charge (p/day): A fixed daily fee you pay just to be connected.

Your Unit Rate (p/kWh): The price you pay for each ‘unit’ of energy you use.

Your Annual Consumption (kWh): The total units you’ve used. Crucially, you must check if this is based on an (A)ctual meter reading or an (E)stimated one, as estimates can be very inaccurate.

Step 2: Gather All Your Switching Information

This is the part that causes the most frustration. Once you’ve decoded your usage, you then need to find all of this information to fill out the forms on a comparison site:

Who is your current supplier?

What is the exact name of your tariff?

How do you pay? (e.g., Monthly Direct Debit, Quarterly on receipt of bill)

What is your MPAN or MPRN? (The long, unique number that identifies your meter)

Finding all of these details can be a real hassle, and if you get them wrong, your switch can be delayed or rejected.

Step 3: The Manual Comparison

After gathering all that information, you would then need to visit multiple websites, manually enter everything correctly, and compare the results to see if you’re overpaying.

This entire process is time-consuming, complex, and requires a level of confidence with jargon that many people simply don’t have.

Part 2: The New Way (The George Way)

Now, let’s forget all of that.

We built Meet George based on a simple belief: you shouldn’t have to be an expert to save money. The complexity of finding information and filling out forms is a problem for technology to solve, not you.

This is the new way.

Step 1: Upload Your Bill

Upload your latest energy bill that your energy supplier sent you. That’s it.

Step 2: George Does All the Work

Instantly, our AI, George, does everything the hard way requires, but with perfect accuracy and zero effort from you. It reads your bill, understands the jargon, and extracts every single piece of information needed for a switch—your supplier, your tariff, your payment method, your usage, and even your meter numbers.

Step 3: Get Your Answer

Within minutes, you are presented with a simple, clear result. You’ll see exactly how much you can save, giving you the confidence to make a smart decision with unmatched simplicity.

This is how it should be. No forms, no jargon, no guesswork. Just a clear, accurate answer, accessible to everyone.

The Choice is Simple

You can continue down the hard path, or you can take the simple one.

We suggest you let George do the work for you.