How Eneralo works
Eneralo turns your meter readings into a bill you can follow during the month, findings you can act on, a check of the bills you receive, and a comparison of contracts. This page says what you get, what you need to do, where the prices come from, and what happens if your grid company is not supported yet.
From readings to answers
Eneralo starts from your own consumption: the export files you can download from your grid company and your electricity supplier. On top of them it puts the prices that apply to you — your grid company's tariff, your supplier's price and the spot price in your area — and the outdoor temperature where you live, so that a change in your use can be told apart from a change in the weather. Out of that come:
- the month's bill so far, and a forecast of where it ends;
- findings: changes in your home's use, explained against a comparison, in kWh and in kronor per year;
- a check of your invoices: is what you were charged what your consumption and tariffs add up to?
- a comparison of contracts: your own usage priced on your supplier's other published offers, with every supplier's offers next;
- a savings ledger that follows up what a change at home actually achieved.
What you need to do
- Download your readings. Every Swedish home has a meter that records each hour, and your grid company's My pages lets you download them as a file. Your supplier's pages usually offer one too.
- Upload the file, and tell Eneralo your grid tariff, your supplier and your price area. That is the whole setup.
- Read the answers, and upload a new file now and then. Automatic data is planned.
Every number says what it is
Each figure Eneralo shows carries a label, so you always know how certain it is:
- Measured
- Comes from your meter.
- Published
- A tariff or a price the company has published.
- Estimated
- A missing part filled in — the page says which part, and from what.
- Forecast
- A projection of what has not happened yet.
A bill is only as certain as its least certain line: if one line is estimated, the whole bill is marked estimated.
Where the prices come from
Eneralo never guesses a price it cannot check. A tariff is changed only with evidence.
- Grid tariffs: the Energy Markets Inspectorate's yearly figures for household grid fees, and the grid companies' own price lists where those figures cannot describe the tariff — a power fee, different prices at different times, or a transfer fee that follows the spot price. Your own invoice is the final word.
- Your supplier's price: the price your supplier sets for each month, read from its exports and invoices; until it is set, the month is estimated from the spot price, and labelled so.
- Spot prices: the Nordic power exchange's day-ahead prices for your price area.
Eneralo is independent of every grid company and supplier. It sells no electricity, takes no commission and ranks nothing by anything but your own cost.
When your grid company is not supported yet
Some grid companies build their tariffs in ways Eneralo cannot calculate exactly yet — for example a transfer fee that follows the spot price by a formula the company does not publish, or a power fee whose price list does not say how the peak is measured.
Then Eneralo says so. It estimates the grid part of your bill with a typical tariff for your main fuse and labels it estimated, and it never checks a grid invoice against an estimate. Everything that builds on your consumption, and everything on your supplier's side, works as usual.
What you can do about it:
- Upload a grid invoice. It shows the price you actually pay, and Eneralo prices your grid costs from it until the tariff can be calculated.
- Enter the figures from your own contract. Eneralo tells you what they leave out.
- Or wait: grid companies are added in the order people need them.
The details: what you get, with and without a supported grid company
| Grid company supported | Not supported yet | |
|---|---|---|
| Your readings imported | ✓ | ✓ |
| Consumption analysis: baseload, night use, year on year, adjusted for outdoor temperature | ✓ | ✓ |
| Findings | kWh and kronor | kWh |
| History report after a year of data | with costs | consumption; the costs are left out |
| What a change at home achieved | kWh and kronor | kWh |
| Your supplier's part of the bill | ✓ | ✓ |
| Checking your supplier's invoice | ✓ | ✓ |
| Other contracts, priced on your own use — your supplier's offers today, every supplier's next | ✓ | ✓ |
| This month's forecast | the whole bill | – |
| Last month's grid cost | exact | estimated with a typical tariff for your fuse |
| Checking your grid invoice | ✓ | – never against an estimate |
| Kronor in the savings ledger | ✓ | – |
| Power fee and advice on peaks | where your company charges one | – |
Your data stays yours
Your readings are used to answer your questions and nothing else. You can take all of it with you, or delete it, at any time.