Utility Bill Auditing
Uncover hidden savings with a thorough audit of your utility bills—identify errors, reduce costs, and optimize your business’s bottom line.
What Is A Utility Bill Audit?
A utility bill audit from Utility Refund Solutions (URS) is a comprehensive review of your business’s utility bills to uncover errors, overcharges, and opportunities for savings. URS’s team of expert auditors examines everything from meter readings and billing structures to taxes and surcharges. Our goal is to identify discrepancies that can result in refunds or reduced future costs. With a contingency-based model, URS only gets paid if we recover savings for you, ensuring a risk-free process.
What We Audit
Invoice accuracy
We verify every detail of your utility invoices to ensure complete accuracy and eliminate errors.
Incorrect meter reading
Our experts check for inaccurate meter readings that could lead to overcharges.
Faulty meters
We identify and address faulty meters that may cause incorrect billing and inflated costs.
Redundant billing charges
We spot and remove redundant charges that might be appearing on your utility bills.
Usage charges
We review usage charges to ensure they align with your actual consumption patterns.
Surcharges
Our audits identify unnecessary surcharges and help you avoid paying extra fees.
Taxes
We ensure you are paying only the correct taxes and are not being overcharged by your utility provider.
GRT
We ensure your business isn’t overpaying gross receipts taxes by reviewing your bills for correct GRT application.
Tariffs
We verify that the right tariff rates are being applied to your utility usage, preventing excess charges.
Billing Structure
We assess your billing structure to ensure it’s optimized and free from unnecessary costs.
Demand readings
We review demand readings to ensure you’re being charged accurately for your peak energy usage.
Meter Constants
We check meter constants for accuracy, ensuring your bill reflects your actual consumption.
Our Process
Our streamlined audit process uncovers hidden utility overcharges and savings opportunities, ensuring your business maximizes cost efficiency with minimal effort.
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Examples
In this example, we reviewed the electric bill for a large manufacturer in Missouri. After reviewing the tariffs we found exemptions that the company should be receiving as a manufacturer. We sent our engineer there to do a predominant use study. Because of our findings, we were able to secure a refund of over $200,000.
In the next example, we reviewed the electric bills for a manufacturer in New Jersey.
While reviewing the billing history, our auditor noticed demand readings that seemed out of line with previous and later billing for the same period.
When we brought it to the utilities attention, they referred us to the tariff which stated “if one month has a high demand, the months following that will be billed at a percentage of that demand for a period of x amount of months”.
It was all well and good that the tariff said that, but that still didn’t explain the high demand for the first month to begin with.
We pursued the matter and upon further investigation by the utility, they determined that there was a meter change in the first month in question.
The utility was billing for the demand on the old meter as well as the demand on the new meter in the same months.
Because of our findings our client was able to get back a refund of over $8,000 that they would not otherwise have known about.
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Contact us today
Take the first step toward recovering your hidden refunds—complete the form today for a free, no-obligation audit of your utility and telecom bills, and let our experts uncover savings you didn’t even know you had.
