1. Service Location Number: Includes a grid number to help Chugach quickly locate the site on a map.

2. Member-Account Number: Uses a unique member number with a suffix for different accounts.

3. Read Type: The three most common types of reads are those done by the company, those which are estimated, and those which have been adjusted through a manual process before being mailed.

4. Average KWH Per Day: Calculated by dividing the usage by the number of days of service.

5. Cost Per Day: Shown for the current, immediate past, and prior years monthly billing cycles.

6. Customer Charge (residential, small/large general): A fixed monthly charge that recovers customer related costs such as meter reading, bill preparation, postage, account maintenance and customer service. It also recovers the depreciation and interest cost for meters and service lines. These costs are the same for each member in a rate class. Thus, the charge is a flat monthly amount that does not vary based on usage.

7. Energy Charge (kwh): This charge is assessed for each kilowatt-hour used. It primarily recovers fuel and other costs that vary with the amount of usage. For residential and large general service, it also recovers the fixed or capacity related costs, such as plant and equipment, needed to provide energy on demand.

8. Demand Charge (large general service customers only): This charge is assessed per kilowatt of peak monthly demand. It recovers the costs of having the ability to meet a consumer's power needs "on demand." They include the cost of having generation, transmission and distribution facilities available and ready to generate and deliver power when needed.

9. Fuel Adjustment Charge: The fuel adjustment, assessed on a kilowatt-hour basis, can be either an additional charge or a credit to a consumer's bill. It allows increases or decreases in the cost of fuel and purchased power to be passed on to consumers. Thus, if the actual cost per kwh is less than the amount allowed for fuel and purchased power in the base utility rate, the difference per kilowatt-hour will be credited to the consumer's account based on usage.

10. Regulatory Cost Charge (RCC): The regulatory cost charge is established by the State of Alaska each year to fund the operations of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. All utilities pay a portion of the Commision's cost. For electric utilities, it is assessed per kilowatt-hour.