Billed on the schedule your load actually qualifies for
We recalculate every bill from the published tariff in force for that service period and test each meter against every schedule it could be on.
- commercial meters billed on a schedule that is not their lowest-cost eligible option
- 1 in 11commercial meters billed on a schedule that is not their lowest-cost eligible option
- tariff sheets versioned by effective date
- 6,800+tariff sheets versioned by effective date
- median bill reduction on corrected rate class
- 14%median bill reduction on corrected rate class
- typical back period recovered on misapplied schedules
- 24 motypical back period recovered on misapplied schedules
Compare schedules for one meter
Move the load profile. The cheapest eligible schedule changes with it.
Monthly energy: 128,480 kWh
Example tariff with three schedules. Each utility's own schedules and rates are modeled per meter during the audit.
| Schedule | Eligible | Monthly bill |
|---|---|---|
| Small general service | No | $18,289 |
| Medium general serviceBilled today | Yes | $15,966 |
| Large general service TOU | Yes | $15,372 |
What tariff audit covers
Part of the 38-check audit that runs on every bill line, every month.
- Schedule eligibility
- Peak demand, load factor, voltage level and usage tested against each schedule's eligibility terms.
- Rider applicability
- Riders and surcharges applied only where the tariff says they apply, at the rate in force on the service dates.
- TOU period boundaries
- On-peak and off-peak windows checked against the tariff calendar, including daylight saving time changes and holidays.
- Rate version by period
- Bills that straddle a rate change are prorated correctly between the old and new rates.
- Minimum and contract demand
- Contract capacity and minimum billing demand compared with what the site actually needs.
- Prospective rate changes
- When a cheaper schedule fits, we file the change request and track the savings going forward.
Errors this catches
- Wrong rate scheduleThe account is billed under a tariff it no longer qualifies for, or one the utility should have moved it off when its load changed.
- TOU period misapplicationTime-of-use usage is split into the wrong on-peak and off-peak hours because of a stale meter program, daylight saving time or holiday errors.
- Demand ratchet errorsBilled demand is set by a ratchet that uses the wrong percentage, a peak outside the look-back window, or a peak that should have been excluded.
Questions we get asked
We only recommend a schedule change after modeling 12 months of the site's own interval data on both schedules. If the result is within a few percent, we leave the site where it is.
Often, when the utility assigned the schedule or failed to apply a change the customer was entitled to. Where the tariff makes schedule choice the customer's responsibility, we pursue the prospective savings instead.
Our tariff research team versions every sheet by effective date as commissions approve them, so a bill from March 2025 is checked against the rates in force in March 2025.
More of the platform
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Connect bills for up to 50 meters. Get the findings report in about three weeks. Pay nothing unless money comes back.
- from bill access to first findings report
- 21 daysfrom bill access to first findings report
- of filed claims accepted by the utility in full or in part
- 94%of filed claims accepted by the utility in full or in part