System and Method for Reducing and Monitoring Energy Utility Bills
OwnerDamian Ostertag, Phil Mannoniinventors
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Abstract
A utility auditing system for reducing and monitoring energy utility bills. The invention further relates to a “utility bill auditing savings wheel” system that creates a “Red Flag” report for identifying and fixing occurrences related to utility bill errors such as metering errors, rate errors, mathematical and clerical errors, misclassifications, missed incentives, unclaimed credits, duplicate charges and market pricing opportunities. The invention furthermore relates to a utility bill auditing system that utilizes special software for reducing and monitoring energy utility bills.
Claims6
In a utility bill audit savings wheel system, a method for monitoring and reducing a utility bill with respect to utility billing data registered into the system, a predetermined order for profile points decided beforehand for calculating demand usage, said method comprising the following steps:
- analyzing the utility billing data at each profile point;
- calculating Red-Flags at each profile point for identifying errors and overcharges in a utility bill;
- generating alerts or opportunities that correspond to a rate change based on each profile point that addresses demand usage;
- calculating the reduced demand usage based on the predetermined profile points;
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- generating a Red-Flag report for each profile point that displays errors and overcharges in the utility bill.
A computer-aided method for monitoring and reducing a utility bill by means of a computer processor for processing utility billing data registered into a utility bill audit savings wheel system, a predetermined order of profile points decided beforehand for calculating demand usage, said method comprising the following steps:
- analyzing, via the processor, the utility billing data at each profile point;
- calculating, via the processor, Red-Flags at each profile point for identifying errors and overcharges in a utility bill;
- generating, via the processor, alerts or opportunities that correspond to a rate change based on each profile point that addresses a demand usage;
- calculating, via the processor, the reduced demand usage based on the predetermined profile points;
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- generating, via the processor, a Red-Flag report for each profile point that displays errors and overcharges in the utility bill.
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A method for monitoring and reducing a utility bill by means of a computer processor, wherein a computer memory is operatively connected to the computer processor, a data storage device having a data store, wherein the data storage device and the data store can be queried by the processor, a computer readable medium operatively connected to the processor, said medium having machine readable code embodied therein to control and to direct a utility bill audit system having utility billing data and at least one profile point registered into said system for calculating demand usage, said method comprising the following steps:
- analyzing the utility data at each profile point;
- calculating Red-Flags at each profile point for identifying errors and overcharges in a utility bill;
- generating alerts or opportunities that correspond to a rate change based on each profile point that addresses demand usage;
- calculating the reduced demand usage based on the predetermined profile points;
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- generating a Red-Flag report for each profile point that displays errors and overcharges in the utility bill.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.