SERVICES

Key Benefits

  • Understand how you are charged for gas, electricity and other utilities as a guide to decision-making
  • Understand what actions will save more dollars than others when considering energy retrofit projects
  • Save money on existing bills by identifying more advantageous rate schedules
  • Learn to use your utility company reps as allies in your utility cost controls programs

Representative Projects

University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA
Advising on gas and electric cost and rates reduction opportunities.

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
Performing electric rates studies, evaluating steam system and developing a water metering program to reduce rapidly rising sewage costs in Atlanta.

Southern Polytechnic State University
Marietta, GA
A focused study that identified quick ways to save energy dollars through operational changes, studied electric rates and provided suggestions for rate negotiations.

City of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Studied the City's largest buildings to determine the best electric rates possible and identified savings from rate changes, billing adjustments & billing errors. Numerous opportunities were found that saved the City $431,000 in first year.

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Utility Rates Analysis

There are two ways to save money on energy - use less and pay less. Energy Ace has formed an alliance with Utilities Analyses, Inc, to offer broadened services for utility billing audits and a superb web-based Utility Tracking Service for easy management and reporting of monthly energy usage by building or facility. Savings guarantees are offered.

Utility Rates Analysis service helps our clients pay less by examining current utility rates to determine if there are better rates and by analyzing utility bills to identify billing errors and simple operational changes to save money. It has been estimated that one percent of utility bills contain errors.

Three Phases

Phase I: Basic Study

  • Review 12-24 months gas, electric and water bills
  • Develop a strategy to reduce costs and rates
  • Make recommendations for follow-up actions to realize savings

Phase II: Study & Results

  • Phase I, plus the following
  • Work with utility representatives and Owner to implement the strategy
  • Coordinate meetings
  • Perform analyses
  • Prepare strategies
  • Negotiate with Utilities to secure savings
  • Document savings & continue to monitor

Phase III: Monthly Energy Review

  • Ongoing support service to review each month's utility bills to assure maintenance of savings, to be continually vigilant for new opportunities and to recognize and alert management of excess energy use trends.

Energy Ace considers alternative rate tariffs for which the Owner's facility may be qualified (or may become qualified if certain plant-side changes were made), and factors this in to the Energy Audits that are the second component of our Energy Cost Control Programs.  Energy Ace recently saved the City of Atlanta $430,000 in electricity.  See Press Release from the City Council President for more information and view the presentation we made to ASHRAE on the subject. Click for a short synopsis of the project and click for a menu of services. Wonder how much you are paying relative to others?  See our data on Electricity Prices and inquire about our benchmarking service.


Monthly Energy Review - We also offer a Monthly Energy Review service to provide ongoing support services by reviewing each month's utility bills. All organizations should have an "Energy Manager" but only the largest ones can afford it. For the rest of us, Energy Ace offers a monthly (or quarterly) energy review service that performs the duties of an Energy Manager without the staff position: review utility bills - electric, gas, water, other, compare monthly data to a benchmark and report to you when bills are outside of pre-set boundaries for a "Management by Exceptions" corrective action.

Bills could be too high because of billing errors or because of unintended operational effects. We also keep an eye on utility rates and stay alert for new rate opportunities. With this service you can compare your buildings to each other and also compare them to themselves over time. Energy Ace will coordinate or perform corrective actions to assure that your buildings are not consuming more energy than they should.

Your Utility Report gives you a Building Report which compares Building Energy Use over time, with appropriate adjustments for weather and occupancy variations, a Comparison Report to compare similar buildings, a Trend Report to reveal patterns over time, an Exceptions Report to identify anomalies and an Issues Report with a checklist to identify specific action items needing attention.

These services differ from standard energy accounting programs because Energy Ace enters the raw data for you, produces an engineering analysis of your data, and provides recommendations from an energy engineer; not suggestions generated by computer software.