Intelligent electric meter

A system for monitoring energy comprising:

• a gateway within a local area network (LAN) and communicatively coupled to a cloud system;
• an intelligent electric meter located within the LAN and electrically coupled to the gateway, the gateway being disposed externally and separately from the intelligent electrical meter, the intelligent electric meter comprising:
• a number of metering components for measuring energy consumption by one or more devices used by a customer in a building, wherein the customer comprises a single use tenant, a multi-use tenant, or a building owner;
• a controller electrically coupled to the metering components, the controller structured and configured to control operations of the metering components and receive energy consumption data based on the energy consumption measured by the metering components;
• a software device electrically coupled to the controller and structured and configured to instruct the controller to monitor the energy consumption data, calculate energy consumption charges for the customer based at least in part on the energy consumption data, and generate a bill based on the energy consumption charges and energy usage data based on the energy consumption data for a predefined period;
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• a communication device electrically coupled to the controller, wherein the software device is structured and configured to transmit the bill and energy usage data directly to the customer via a defined communications channel,
• wherein the gateway is structured and configured to:
• (i) receive the energy consumption data from the intelligent electric meter, aggregate the energy consumption data, calculate the energy consumption charges for the customer based at least in part on the energy consumption data, and generate the bill and energy usage data for the customer for the predefined period, and (ii) receive additional energy consumption data for an additional customer from an additional electric meter located within the LAN and electrically coupled to the gateway, calculate additional energy consumption charges for the customer based at least in part on the additional energy consumption data, and generate and transmit directly to the additional customer a bill and energy usage data for the additional customer based on the additional energy consumption charges and the additional energy consumption data, the cloud system storing one or more of historical energy consumption data, billing charges, billing history, and billing cycles associated with the customer and the additional customer.