Energy billing system

In a perfect world, your home’s solar system would precisely meet your electricity demands – nothing more and nothing less. In reality, there will be days when your panels produce more electricity than you use (sunny summer days), and days when they won’t produce enough (shorter, cloudier days and nights). When this happens, net metering and net billing allow you to essentially use the grid as storage; excess energy produced by your panels transfers to the grid in exchange for credits. In times when your solar system isn’t able to meet your energy needs and you need to pull electricity from the grid, you can use these credits to compensate. In this article, we explain the difference between net metering and net billing compensation structures, different types of net metering and net billing, and where these programs are being offered across the country. Key takeaways • Net metering and net billing programs make use of overproduced electricity from home solar systems by transferring the excess energy to the grid. In exchange, you receive credits for this energy you send to the grid. • Net metering transactions are usually one-to-one, so the credits are often equal to the retail rate of electricity (aka what you pay). • Net billing credits are often equal to the wholesale rate of electricity (aka what your utility pays), which is less than the retail rate. • Utilities tend to oppose net metering programs, so alternative compensation programs are becoming increasingly popular...

Tenant Billing - Energy Hippo's Streamlined Utility Billing and Re-Billing Software Tenant Billing empowers you to push your actual costs to the appropriate owner or driver. Our Tenant Billing feature can automate the import of interval, billing, and meter reads, and create sophisticated methods for allocating costs to individual departments, cost centers, or tenants. All allocations are also available for consumption, cost, and greenhouse gas reporting and benchmarking. Develop accountability for consumption and costs, and improve the efficiency and quality of your data management. Leverage EEM Suite Bill Analyst and Meter Data Analyst reports and analytics to provide energy management capabilities for tenants and cost centers. Features & Capabilities of Energy Hippo's Utility Billing Software • Allocate percentages and fixed amounts • Support for allocations to metered and non-metered spaces • Push bill reports the next day to department heads with event notifications • Interface as system of record with handheld meter reading software • Rebill third party tenants based on submetered usage and internal or actual utility rates • Define hierarchical, parent-child bill meter relationships • Review accurate audit trail for rebill accounting • A/P integration for generating tenant and cost center bills • Accrual reports and advanced financial reporting • Leverage Meter Data Analyst reporting for meter data rebilling accounts • Leverage Bill Analyst reporting for monthly billi...

But California is about to challenge that basic logic, in an attempt to curb rising rates and help electrify the state’s approximately law will require its three investor-owned utilities to charge customers fees for electricity based not only on how much electricity they use, but also on how much money they make. Ronald Dawson, a retired data manager who lives in Eureka, Calif., said he and his wife have always been careful to save energy: only running the washer during off-peak hours and living without air conditioning. The new fixed charge alone, he said, would be more than his typical monthly electricity bill. “It’s a bait-and-switch,” he said. “In the last decade, electricity prices in California have skyrocketed,” said Matthew Freedman, a staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization headquartered in San Francisco. In the past 10 years, Freedman explained, non-discounted electricity rates at PG&E have increased 84 percent; SDG&E rates have gone up 137 percent. Those high prices could deter Californians who want to electrify their homes and vehicles to cut carbon emissions. In general, switching out gas heating for an electric heat pump or a gas-powered car for an electric car saves money and helps the planet. But high electricity prices change the calculus. In some cases, people who electrify their homes might end up paying more. The California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates private utilities in the state, hasn...

Understanding How to Read and Calculate Your Electricity and Natural Gas Bills Fully understanding the energy charges and fees on your electric or natural gas bills each month is an important part of keeping your energy budget under control. When reading your electricity bill or natural gas bill, you might wonder what the electricity or natural gas supply charges are about, what a kWh is, how they’re calculated, or you might be having other problems understanding your energy bills. Constellation wants to help you manage your energy expenses by teaching you about energy costs and how power usage might affect your overall monthly bill. • Electricity Cost: On your bill (or this sample electric bill), you will see a listing of the amount of electricity your home used for the month, listed in kilowatt-hours, or kWh. You have control over this portion of your bill in two ways. First, you can work to cut home energy charges by • Capacity Cost: Another important fee to understand on your electric bill is capacity cost. This fee, usually incurred by commercial customers, ensures that the electric utility has enough capacity available to cover the total power use demand of their customers. While you don’t get much input on how this rate is assessed, you can do your part to help lower these costs for all users by using major appliances and machinery during off-peak times and reducing your energy consumption during peak hours. Peak hours vary by location and season, so • Utility Deliv...

The Wisconsin Public Service Commission will host meetings in Milwaukee from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Finney Community Room of the Washington Park Branch of the Milwaukee Public Library, 2121 N. Sherman Blvd., and from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Neighborhood House, 2819 W. Richardson Place. Customers also can attend virtually via Zoom. We Energies provides electricity and natural gas service to 2.2 million customers primarily in Nearly 60,000 of the utility's Milwaukee customers qualify for existing low-income assistance programs. What's on the agenda? The PSC wants to hear first-hand perspectives from customers who struggle to afford their bills, learn how effective existing programs are and listen to ideas about alternatives, including a payment program that would limits bills to a percentage of household income. The agenda includes a brief background explainer from PSC staff, a presentation on how a Joe Fontaine, the administrator of the PSC's Division of Digital Access, Consumer and Environmental Affairs, said PSC staff will use the input gathered at the sessions and through written comments to inform the discussions it is facilitating between the utilities and other parties on proposals for new low-income assistance programs and expansion or improvement of existing programs. More: Listening sessions' roots go back to last year's rate increase requests The initiative stemmed largely from the involvement of Walnut Way was the leading advocate for a pilot perc...

06/07/2023 Entergy has been named a 2023 honoree of The Civic 50, Points of Light’s prestigious annual list recognizing the top community-minded companies in the United States. This is the eighth time Entergy has been part of this list. Entergy was also recognized as this year’s Utilities Sector Leader.

UtiliBill™ is a state-of-the-art EDI integrated billing system that is offered on a securely hosted model to the deregulated energy marketplace. Empowering Energy Suppliers to serve residential, commercial, and industrial customers in all of the deregulated markets, UtiliBill™ acts as the backbone to your business’ success. With a robust reporting engine, automated workflow management, real-time APIs, Business Intelligence and complex rate/billing engine, you can effectively run your operations while focusing on growth and other unique business strategies. As such, it is ideally suited for companies with a rich tradition of unparalleled customer service seeking to deliver the consistently high standards of excellence their customers have come to expect. The Energy Industry’s Operating System UtiliBill™ is currently used by over 80 energy marketers, making it the most widely-used Billing/CIS platforms within deregulated electric and natural gas markets. Additionally, the knowledge, partnership and relationships that EC Infosystems® provides brings a tremendous complementary value to all system users. Secure, Quick To Set Up & Easy To Use UtiliBill™ is a secure, SSAE 16 compliant, hosted solution, so it can be quickly deployed in weeks with market specific rules, rate structures and transactions configured for fast entry into new markets with minimal effort and upfront costs. It is also accessible simply through a web browser and can integrate with your websites to process w...

Payment Options • View a summary of the various methods by which a customer can pay their bill, including online, phone, payment agencies, and mail. • Pay your electric bill anytime using your bank account online or by phone. • Pay your electric bill anytime with your credit or debit card online or by phone. Service fees will apply. • Pay your electric bill using automatic monthly withdrawal from your bank account. • Have your electric bill automatically charged each month to your credit or debit card. • Pay online quickly and easily with your credit or debit card without having to register online or login. Service fees will apply. • Find a convenient, authorized payment location where you can make a payment. Service fees may apply. • Use our automated phone system to pay your bill at any time. Service fees may apply. • Find your operating company's address to send your payment. • Review our security deposit policies based on the part of our service territory to which you are moving. • See how credit refunds are handled. Payment Programs • Make uniform bill payments to help avoid seasonal fluctuation of payment amounts. Available in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. • For residential customers who wish to level out their bill payments. Available in Maryland and West Virginia. • Keep your account current with affordable installments to be paid with your monthly bill. Login required to see if you are eligible online. • There are a variety of programs that are avai...