How Paying Your Electric Bill Compares to Eating Out

As professional energy consultants, we believe that reading your electric bill should be just as easy as and routine as reading your dinner bill, your shopping receipt, or anything else that you routinely keep a check on before paying.

While utilities do make mistakes on your electric bill, and sometimes overcharge you, this may not be something you will be able to detect right away unless you know a lot about energy.

In fact, utility billing errors are so common that we offer a service for any business that spends more than $5,000 in utilities, where we analyze years-worth of electric and utility bills to detect billing errors resulting in overcharges. Finding errors 90% of the time, we then work with the utility to get your money back. But as we just said, to do this yourself would require extensive knowledge of the ins and outs of energy rate classes, energy taxes, energy market information, historical energy pricing information, and many other things to spot major errors.

However, with a basic understanding of your electric bill, you’ll be able to spot ways to better manage and reduce your electricity costs. At a personal level, at home, this can be very helpful when managing your monthly finances, and for your business, saving money on your electric bill can add profit to your bottom line.

For businesses with multiple locations and many accounts, we understand that gathering all the electric bills and reading them all one by one is not very practical. That’s why we offer a completely free service where we analyze your electric bills for you and give free consultations about how to lower them.

We have written another article that covers how to read your electric bill, but to end this one, we wanted to address points two and three of our analysis, namely: that most people feel that there’s not much they can do to lower their electric bills and that some people don’t give energy savings that much priority compared to the many other things that are going on in life or business.

Working as one of North America’s most successful energy consultants for over two decades, we can assure you that there are many things that can be done to lower your electric bills. Some are very simple solutions, such as managing vampire appliances and installing LED lighting, and some more reliable and long-term solutions, such as asset-backed demand response, energy intelligence, and various other programs we offer.

Today, you can even eliminate most of your electric bills through solar, which is more affordable and, in most cases, can be installed at a much lower rate than you’re currently paying for your electricity.

We understand! Just because there are many solutions to help you reduce energy costs, it doesn’t mean that all your day-to-day worries disappear and that you can now magically dedicate all your attention to lowering your electric bills.

Well, that’s why we exist! Energy Professionals exists to help you better manage and control your energy costs resulting in major energy savings. With one of the largest networks of Retail Energy Providers and Energy Solution Providers, we act as virtual energy managers analyzing your electric bills and finding ways to consistently reduce your commercial energy costs – no matter the size of your business.

As for the benefits of lowering your electric bill, not only does it put more money into your pocket or your business’ bottom line, but by using less energy you are effectively reducing the amount of pollution created in order to produce the electricity your home or business uses, thereby also helping the environment.