UTILITY BILL AUDIT
What is a Utility Bill Audit?
A utility bill audit is a review carried out when a property or business owner decides to thoroughly assess their utility invoices to reduce errors. Businesses should perform energy audits on an ongoing routine basis. However, a company usually starts an audit due to a higher-than-normal utility bill.
At TLRENERGY there are three keys to our recovery process
Currently – Optimise charging structures to reflect your current usage patterns.
Future – In the future invoice verification to eliminate errors and overpayments.
Business Electricity
Electricity can be complicated due to varying rates, structures, peak demand charges, and fluctuating usage pattern. We are dedicated to empowering businesses like yours with the knowledge and strategies needed to optimize energy costs.
Business Gas
Are you looking to cut costs and simplify your gas expenses? Please request a gas bill audit with TRENERGY to receive tailored recommendations beyond traditional auditing methods. Our Gas audit can help you Save money.
Business water and wastewater
We specialise in examining water usage and billing to ensure that clients are not overcharged. Our water and wastewater bills audit service help businesses to identify and eliminate hiding charges, optimise water usage, and unlock significant costs savings.
Free utility bill audit service
TLRENERGY will undertake a full initial energy health check on a purely performance related basis to quickly establish whether overcharges have occurred or opportunity for cost savings exists Please contact us todayat billet renergy.co.uk to arrange a free no-obligation consultation
Why Electricity Bill Audit?
Electricity bill auditing is a full comprehensive analysis of your business electricity usage. It is a resource heavy process and one that needs experts to execute. It is notoriously complex with a host of charges and varying rates. TLRENERGY will examine your bills to identify any errors, overcharges and inefficient energy practices.
Our Process
Our process is to identify energy savings opportunities to lower your energy bills and make your business more sustainable.
How TLRENERGY audit your bill:
We audit your invoices to ensure that element of your utility invoices is correct with any discrepancies quickly identified whilst we check your energy bills against actual consumption, using data to validate previous bills.
Energy bill validation
Our Energy Bill validation process is to ensure that invoices or bills received by businesses are accurate, legitimate, and correct for actual services they received. TLRENERGY will validate business invoices using software tools to automate the validation process and to cross-check invoice details against approved suppliers, purchased orders and other relevant data. We will also carry out accuracy of invoices, identify duplicates and detect potential fraud and authenticity of money before accepting it.
FAQ’s
How do I understand my energy bill?
Energy bills can be intimidating to read especially when you are unfamiliar
with energy jargon, like kilowatts, standing charge, tariff, and MPAN etc…
Why is it important to audit utility bills?
Utility bills are very complicated in nature, they cover your energy and utility charges but also the numerous, non-commodity cost of distribution, transmission, taxes, and levies etc… Errors are often hiding underneath the complexity and the distractions of daily operations. It is , therefore, very important to review your utility bills on a regular basis to ensure that you are paying the correct amounts.
How do I know if my gas bill is correct?
Constantly check your bill for error in usage patterns and changes. For guidance, please contact TLRENERGY at bill@tlrenergy.co.uk
How do I prepare for electricity audit?
Put together any correspondence and your recent bills, details of your energy plan with your utility supplier as backup for a structured approach and contact TLRENERGY for guidance on your electricity bills at bill@tlrenergy.co.uk
FAQ’s
Energy bills can be intimidating to read especially when you are unfamiliar
with energy jargon, like kilowatts, standing charge, tariff, and MPAN etc…
Constantly check your bill for error in usage patterns and changes. For guidance, please contact TLRENERGY at bill@tlrenergy.co.uk
Utility bills are very complicated in nature, they cover your energy and utility charges but also the numerous, non-commodity cost of distribution, transmission, taxes, and levies etc… Errors are often hiding underneath the complexity and the distractions of daily operations. It is , therefore, very important to review your utility bills on a regular basis to ensure that you are paying the correct amounts.
Put together any correspondence and your recent bills, details of your energy plan with your utility supplier as backup for a structured approach and contact TLRENERGY for guidance on your electricity bills at bill@tlrenergy.co.uk
What is a Gas Bill Audit?
TLRENERGY audit your business invoices to catch errors, correct discrepancies, and prevent billing fraud attempts.
This is to ensure that every element of your utility invoices is correct with any discrepancies quickly identified. We check your energy bills against actual consumption, using data to validate previous bills.
Our Process
Our process helps ensure your business has the proper financial controls in place and is only making legitimate payments.
How do you prepare for energy audit?
Gather Utility Bills and information. Before the energy audit, gather at least one year’s worth of utility bills, create a list of concerns, inspect windows and doors, check insulation, evaluate lighting, HVAC System Maintenance, Energy-Efficient Appliances.
FAQ’s
An energy audit can clarify your company’s energy consumption and identify areas for potential savings. It can lead to reduced energy use. Improved productivity and opportunities to innovate.
Audit procedures are the techniques, processes, methods that auditors use to obtain reliable audit evidence, which enables them to gain a sound judgement about an organisation’s financial status. Audit procedures are conducted to help determine whether a company’s financial statement is credible and factual.
The answer is Yes and No, why, because there’s no upfront costs and no obligation. Generally, the cost is based on sharing of savings we make for our clients which is sometimes around 50/50 ratio. The cost is for time the TLRENERGY utility auditor or our audit firm spends conducting the audit. The larger the organisation’s budget, and the more complex its finances, the more time the audit will take and the higher the audit cost.
TLRENERGY plays a key role in helping businesses manage their water usage more efficiently and ensuring that they are billed correctly and economically.
Why business need a water auditor?
The complexity of water tariffs and the potential for billing errors, having an auditor ensures that your business isn’t paying more than it should. This is not only aids in cost reduction but also helps in adhering to water usage regulations.
Water cost recovery
Water tariffs vary in prices and structures in different areas of the UK and often depend on external factors as well as level and types of usage. Checking that your business is on the most advantageous rate is time consuming and can be difficult. In addition, the deregulation of the market in 2017 has created several new suppliers with new billing systems which in many cases are leading to a whole range of new errors and overcharges including duplicated charges and removal of pre-existing discount agreements.
Why Are Business Water Audits Important?
Business water bill can be surprisingly costly. A business water audit is a strategic service which can help to bring them down, while also providing solutions to maximise efficiency. Water audit service also help business owners to avoid the most common errors associated with water changes, such as duplicate, invoicing, billing errors, and estimated readings based on the ratable value.
Reading your water meter
First find out where your meter is. You might need to speak to your service provider Some organisations have more than one meter. The meter could be in a place that is unsafe for you to access, please be careful.
Our Process
Our process helps ensure your business has the proper financial controls in place and is only making legitimate payments.
FAQ’s
Yes! The only one way to reduce costs of water could be to install a water meter. Unfortunately, there’s no way to change your water supplier unless you move to a different area.
The reading takes place twice a year. But if water company were unable to get a reading for some reason, we’ll send you a bill based on an estimate. It is unlikely to send an estimated bill more than twice a year
£37 a month or £448 a year. This is according to Water UK. But the amount you’ll pay depends on where you live and if you have a water meter.
The first major step of a comprehensive water audit is to collect data on a facility’s water use, the water cost, the building occupants, and the existing equipment.
Reading your meter is easy. You will have either Analogue (Old style Meter Type 1) or (Digital Meter Type 2. please remember to include any leading zero when taking your reading.
A wastewater audit is the best way to make informed recommendations on ways to save money on wastewater disposal, storage transportation and treatment.
What is a Utility Bill Audit?
A utility bill audit is a review carried out when a property or business owner decides to thoroughly assess their utility invoices to reduce errors. Businesses should perform energy audits on an ongoing routine basis. However, a company usually starts an audit due to a higher-than-normal utility bill.
At TLRENERGY there are three keys to our recovery process
Historically – identify and reclaim overcharges for up to at least 6 years
Currently – Optimise charging structures to reflect your current usage patterns.
Future – In the future invoice verification to eliminate errors and overpayments.
STAGE 1
CLIENTS COMPLETE INFORMATION PACK
.Client Sign Agreement
.Client Sign Authorisation Letter on Company’s Letterhead
STAGE 2
TLRENERGY REQUESTUTILITYDATA FROM SUPPLIERS
TLRENERGY contacts all relevant utility suppliers and obtains historic billing data for analysis
STAGE 3
AUDIT BEGINS
TLRENERGY begins analytical processes of data collected going back up to 6 years
STAGE 4
ADJUDICATION WITH UTILITY PROVIDER
TLRENERGY submit any found overcharges to the Utility provider backed by our review process for approval and to request for closure on the issue
STAGE 5
RESULT OF THE AUDIT
TLRENERGY inform the Client of any potential savings recover during the audit and provide continuous update on the process.
STAGE 6
UTILITY PROVIDER REFUND CREDITS
TLRENERGY apply for refund of credit or cheque on behalf of our client with all necessary adjustment that may result in future savings
STAGE 7
FUTURE AUDITS CONTINUES
TLRENERGY continues to look for ways to delivers results, benefits and huge savings for its clients year after year
