System and Method for Reducing and Monitoring Energy Utility Bills

摘要

A utility auditing system for reducing and monitoring energy utility bills. The invention further relates to a “utility bill auditing savings wheel” system that creates a “Red Flag” report for identifying and fixing occurrences related to utility bill errors such as metering errors, rate errors, mathematical and clerical errors, misclassifications, missed incentives, unclaimed credits, duplicate charges and market pricing opportunities. The invention furthermore relates to a utility bill auditing system that utilizes special software for reducing and monitoring energy utility bills.

主权项

1. In a utility bill audit savings wheel system, a method for monitoring and reducing a utility bill with respect to utility billing data registered into the system, a predetermined order for profile points decided beforehand for calculating demand usage, said method comprising the following steps:
analyzing the utility billing data at each profile point; calculating Red-Flags at each profile point for identifying errors and overcharges in a utility bill; generating alerts or opportunities that correspond to a rate change based on each profile point that addresses demand usage; calculating the reduced demand usage based on the predetermined profile points; and generating a Red-Flag report for each profile point that displays errors and overcharges in the utility bill.