Reporting circuit breaker and system

A method of managing a commercial facility having plural tenants and building space subdivided into tenant spaces occupied by individual tenants for whom power consumption is to be billed to a dedicated billing account for each tenant according to usage of each one of the tenant spaces, and wherein remodeling changes to the tenant spaces occur over, comprising the steps of:

• providing a commercial facility subdivided at least into a plurality of tenant spaces each having and individual tenant, and a plurality of electrical distribution panels which collectively provide branch circuits to each one of the plural tenant spaces, wherein each branch circuit is protected by a circuit breaker located in one of the electrical distribution panels, and each branch circuit comprises a point of use portion and a power transport portion;
• providing and operating a remote electrical monitoring and reporting system which is disposed to monitor electrical consumption characteristics of at least one branch circuit at the circuit breaker serving that one branch circuit, to generate radiated consumption data signals indicative of monitored electrical consumption characteristics, and to generate radiated address data signals which identify that tenant which is associated with that circuit breaker for which the radiated consumption data signals were generated, such that for each individual tenant there is correspondence between total electrical consumption data for all branch circuits serving that individual tenant and the billing account for that individual tenant;
• receiving and processing radiated consumption data signals and radiated address data signals for a plurality of the branch circuits of the commercial facility in a manner which determines billing charges for at least two of the tenants and generates billing charges to be applied to each one of the at least two tenants;
• effecting at least one tenant usage change wherein remodeling changes comprise at least one of the group including adding at least one load device to the point of use portions of branch circuits, construction of new branch circuits, and reconnection of reused point of use portions of branch circuits to branch circuits not formerly serving the reused point of use portions of branch circuits;
• continuing after effecting at least one tenant usage change to operate the remote electrical monitoring and reporting system such that billing charges for the tenants continue to reflect, for each tenant, only electrical power actually consumed by each one of the tenants after the tenant usage changes, and wherein the billing charges are based only on the radiated consumption data signals and radiated address data signals associated with individual branch circuits.