RATCHET ENERGY CONSULTING
Auditing Your Utility Bills
Accurate and Optimized for Savings
Ratchet Energy Consulting is your company’s utility bill auditor. With 40 year's experience and expertise, we become your “extra set of eyes” giving you comfort that you are being billed correctly. This service does not interfere with your current supply advisor or internal procurement team and requires very little internal time or effort on your part.
Mistakes are more common on your utility charges than you may think and can rarely be fully identified and corrected by an automated “trend checking” service. Our founder and principal has almost 40 years of utility management experience and has recovered millions of dollars owed by utilities.
WHY RATCHET...
Our services were built based on the belief that small and medium-sized companies and universities deserve the same level of accurate and optimized billing that the large companies enjoy through their energy teams and internal auditing processes.
We strive to act as an extension of your team.
Let us go to work for you!
THE AUDIT PROCESS
Designed to be easy; requiring very little information and very little time for your team.
Keep it SIMPLE. We audit utility bill invoices for billing errors and savings opportunities.
HELP the client. Be an “extension of their bench”. Add expert resources to a client’s abilities. Ratchet is designed to focus on organizations with large utility footprints but without in-house bill audit teams; basically, those that spend most of their effort focused on their core business.
Make it EASY - do all the work wherever possible. We only need the bill data and, in some engagements, a follow-up call to better understand your operations.
Be VALUABLE and prove your worth. If we’re not able to discover and recover any benefits for you, we don’t collect a fee.
MAKE SURE THE INVOICES ARE: ACCURATE AND ERROR-FREE
Mistakes on Utility Invoices are quite common due to standard human error. These may not be obvious to the untrained eye within the complexity of the monthly bill. We compare each utility bill to the governing tariff and check for charges outside of the historical trend. In some cases, billing errors are the result of faulty metering equipment, as well.
CONFIRM: RATE OPTIMIZATION AND TAXES
We research the many different rates and tariffs to confirm that you are on the best one. Then we make sure that you're taking advantage of any tax exemption opportunities.
Optimizing the rate structure to your specific facilities takes an understanding of the characteristics of the different rate classes and how they apply to your unique operating needs.
RESEARCH: UTILITY USAGE INFRASTRUCTURE
And finally, we look outside of the bill process to see if there are any energy efficiency, renewable energy generation, or other incentives or opportunities your facility should be pursuing.