Meralco bills has always been a household issue. We do know that the more you consume electricity the higher the bill and when it comes to appliances, what I know is that appliances that changes temperature e.g. refrigerators, air conditioners, flat irons, etc. are that ones that consumes a lot of electricity. We really can’t avoid them because we need them. But we can manage them with the help of M.A.C. Meralco Appliance Calculator: my electricity budget buddy
The Meralco Appliance Calculator (M.A.C.) has been a consumer’s electricity budget buddy since 2003. The M.A.C. is designed to be an electricity bill management tool of Meralco residential customers to help them:
- better manage their electric consumption and their electric bill;
- make wiser decisions in buying home appliances, and;
- get home energy efficiency tips that are customized to their home electricity consumption.
Any consumer can access the M.A.C. from Meralco’s website: www.meralco.com.ph.
Although the M.A.C. has been around for many years now, new features and enhancements are constantly being introduced to enable it to cater to the growing demands of electricity users. With the new Meralco Appliance Calculator (M.A.C), users can now have the option of using either “My Appliance Calculator” or “My Bill Manager”.
“My Appliance Calculator” allows the user to calculate the estimate consumption cost of appliances – one at a time.
“My Bill Manager”, on the other hand, allows the user to calculate the estimated consumption cost of appliances in a table format. It allows the user to get an estimate of the household’s total electric consumption cost and see which appliances consume more electricity.
Other features of the “My Bill Manager” menu include: consumption manager, energy efficiency adviser and target bill amount estimator. Consumption manager allows the user to see the corresponding electric consumption pie chart and
some text description of the chart based on the information provided by the user. The energy efficiency adviser, meanwhile, allows user to see some energy efficiency tips based on the information provided by the user. The target bill amount estimator, on the other hand, allows the user to see an estimate of his “monthly target kWh consumption” and “estimated price per kWh” by just inputting the “target electric bill amount”.
Other new features of the M.A.C include:
- e-mailing of the M.A.C web link to friends through the “email” button; sharing the M.A.C web link to Facebook and Twitter accounts through the “share” button;
- sending feedback to Meralco regarding the new M.A.C through the “feedback” button;
- printing the computation results of “My Bill Manager” through the “print” button (for easy access and future reference of the computations), and;
- viewing the basis for computing the estimated electricity consumption of home appliances for the M.A.C application through the “formula” button (so that users can validate the results of the computations).
I have embedded the presentation for us to understand the new M.A.C. better.
The M.A.C. is truly a user-friendly, interactive and valuable tool for cost conscious electricity consumers. Start using it to start saving money and you might get your self some chamilia beads.
