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Utility Bill Audit

Your rate schedule is a choice.
Many businesses are on the wrong one

What to send

The last 12 months of bills for each account you want checked. PDFs are fine.

Commercial electricity, gas, and water accounts are billed under tariff schedules with dozens of variants — demand charges, rider fees, tax classifications, meter multipliers. Utilities apply them automatically and rarely revisit them, and refund rules vary by state and provider — so every review starts from the specific tariff that governs your account.

What we look for

Five standard error patterns

Every account we receive is checked against all five, in this order, before anything else is opened.

  1. 1

    Accounts placed on a rate class that doesn’t match the actual load profile

  2. 2

    Demand charges based on estimated peaks that were never trued up against actual meter data

  3. 3

    Sales tax charged on exempt usage (manufacturing, resale, certain nonprofits)

  4. 4

    Meter multiplier and billing-unit errors that scale every single invoice

  5. 5

    Rider and surcharge fees applied to account types they don’t cover

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Where the money hides

Pattern two of five

A demand charge set from an estimated peak and never trued up against meter data repeats on every bill until somebody reads the meter.

Electric account — billing detail Illustrative example
One commercial meter, one billing period. Demand stated in kW, energy in kWh.
01 Energy charge 386,400 kWh × $0.0715 $27,627.60
02 Demand charge 1,140 kW estimated peak × $14.20 $16,188.00
Interval meter data for the same period shows an actual peak of 968 kW. Billed against the metered peak, this line is $13,745.60 — the demand charge is overstated by $2,442.40.
03 Rider — grid modernization Flat monthly, per tariff schedule $1,845.30
04 State and local sales tax 6.25% of billed charges $2,853.81
Total billed $48,514.71
Illustrative example built from the error patterns we look for. Not a client document, not a client result.
What you get

A line-item findings report per account and per location, refund claims filed with the utility, and — where a better tariff exists — the switch handled, so the overcharge also stops going forward.

What it costs

50% of refunds recovered. No findings, no fee.

What to send

The last 12 months of bills (PDFs are fine) for each account you want checked. That’s all we need to start; if we spot something, we may ask for your service agreement.

How long it takes

Findings report in about two weeks. Utility refund processing typically takes one to three months; we manage the claims.

Send twelve months of bills

The last 12 months of bills for each account you want checked — PDFs are fine. That is all we need to start. If there is nothing to recover, we say so in writing and you owe nothing.

Email your bills

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