Public supply services (water, electricity and gas) play an essential role in economic and social development. In Mexico, The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is in charge of providing energy to homes through a meter that calculates the light consumed by each one.
Every two months, a receipt is sent to Mexican homes with the amount to be paid and the energy consumed during the two-month period. And on this occasion, the Commission announced that as of June 1, the rate will change and, in some regions of the country, it will increase.
According to the CFE, the rate for High Consumption Domestic Service (DAC) will increase in relation to the month of May. In this sense, the amount of the rate for the amount consumed per hour is established at 132.02 pesosunlike the 131.93 that was collected in May.
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This increase is applied according to the region, urban area and season of the year. For example, the demarcations that are exempt from this increase (or that, where appropriate, have a subsidy), are those that register high temperatures and that need to use air conditioning or refrigeration systems.
The classifications of the rates according to the temperature of each region are as follows:
- Rate 1A — 25 degrees Celsius as minimum temperature in summer
- Rate 1B — 28 degrees Celsius as minimum temperature in summer
- Rate 1C — 30 degrees Celsius as minimum temperature in summer
- Rate 1D — 31 degrees Celsius as minimum temperature in summer
- Rate 1E — 32 degrees Celsius as minimum temperature in summer
- Rate 1F — 33 degrees Celsius as minimum temperature in summer
The discounts according to the corresponding rate will apply until October 31. Some of the cities that have this subsidy according to their temperatures are: Acapulco, Torreón, Mérida, Cancún, Tampico and Chetumal, among others.
How to read the light meter? Learn to interpret how much you should pay
First of all, You should know the two types of energy readers that exist. The first is electromagnetic and is identified by the four or five dials with clock-like hands. To interpret it, you must follow the steps that we present below:
- Locate your meter and locate the far right ‘clock’ hand
- Visualize the numbers the hand is pointing to and aim at them
- If the hand is in the middle of two numbers, take into account the immediately lower of the two
- If the number is in the middle of 9 and 0, take the 9
- Continue to do the same for the other three or four ‘clocks’ on your meter, i.e. from right to left.
- Although the reader interprets from left to right, doing it the other way around will work for you to calculate spending in pesos
Reading digital meters is much easier. It will be enough to locate your reader and write down the figure that is at the end of the kWh lines. Whether in analog or digital, with the recorded numbers you can calculate your electricity bill as follows:
- Enter the application CFE with you
- Go to the bottom of the menu and click on ‘consumption simulator’
- Enter the numbers you got from your meter
- Ready! The approximate cost of your consumption period will be displayed
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