Utility Bill Analyzer

Anatomy of a bill

A commercial electric bill is nine or ten lines, and most of the money hides in the ones nobody reads. This is one year of one office building’s bills, taken apart the way Utility Bill Analyzer reads them.

The building, the utility and the tariff are synthetic. Not a customer result.

On this bill

$13,069 a year, on three lines

Bayview Office Park (synthetic): 92,000 sq ft, 12 bills, GSD-1 (general service demand, synthetic).

The bill

Twelve months, one open at a time.

Point at a line to see where it sits in the month; point at the bars to find the line. Open any month from the tabs.

a synthetic Florida utility

Electric service statement

Jan 2025

Account: Bayview Office Park (synthetic)
Rate class: GSD-1 (general service demand, synthetic)
Service period: 1 Jan 2025 to 31 Jan 2025 · 31 days

Previous read: 04183220
Current read: 04272960
Used: 89,740 kWh
Peak demand: 267.2 kW
Billed demand: 267.2 kW

Charge
Charge	Quantity	Rate	Amount
Customer chargeFlagged	1 month	$95.00 /month	$95.00
Energy, first 10,000 kWhFlagged	10,000 kWh	$0.0820 /kWh	$820.00
Energy, over 10,000 kWhFlagged	79,740 kWh	$0.0610 /kWh	$4,864.14
DemandFlagged	267.2 kW	$12.40 /kW	$3,313.28
Demand ratchet (billed above metered)Flagged	0 kW	$12.40 /kW	$0.00
Fuel recovery riderFlagged	89,740 kWh	$0.0315 /kWh	$2,826.81
Capacity riderFlagged	89,740 kWh	$0.0035 /kWh	$314.09
Franchise feeFlagged	$12,233.32	5.9%	$721.77
TaxFlagged	$12,955.09	2.5%	$323.88
Total due			$13,278.97

Jan 2025, by line $13,278.97

The year, month by month$188,611

What the reader found

Three things on this bill worth a letter to the utility.

Each one lives on a line above. Point at a card to light that line in every month it touches.

$3,640 a year
One hot afternoon is still on the bill
Every unit restarted together one August afternoon and set a 457 kW peak; the demand ratchet has billed at least 80% of it every month since, even though the building never came close again.
Found by comparing monthsOn the line Demand ratchet (billed above metered), 4 months
$4,302 a year
A rider charged on every kilowatt-hour
The tariff says the capacity rider applies to the first 10,000 kWh each month; the bill applies it to all of them.
Found by a billing ruleOn the line Capacity rider, every month
$5,128 a year
On a rate class it no longer qualifies for
Demand has stayed under 500 kW for more than a year, so the account qualifies for the under-500 kW class, which has no ratchet and a lower demand rate; the same load costs $5,128 a year less there.
Found by a rate checkOn the line Demand, every month

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What it does

What Utility Bill Analyzer does

Reads every page of every bill, not the summary line: each meter, each charge, each rider, twelve months at a time.
Checks each charge against the tariff it should have been billed on: the rate, the block, the class, the effective date.
Watches the ratchet and the riders month by month, so a one-off peak or a misapplied rider shows up as a pattern rather than a number.
Flags what to dispute, what to change and what is simply the tariff, priced for the year, with an engineer standing behind each finding.

Rules do the checking; an engineer signs the letter. Invite-only today; the first building is free.

Anatomy of a bill

Twelve months, one open at a time.

Three things on this bill worth a letter to the utility.

One hot afternoon is still on the bill

A rider charged on every kilowatt-hour

On a rate class it no longer qualifies for

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