About

What we do

We help businesses answer three questions. Am I paying a competitive all-in electricity cost? What qualified supply or optimization options actually exist for my account? And what has to happen before my contract expires so I do not get caught on a holdover rate?

HAUSE is not a rate comparison website. This site is HAUSE’s outsourced energy desk for companies that do not employ an energy procurement team — and most companies do not.

Who is behind this

CommercialElectricityRates.com is published by HAUSE (hause.ca), a Canadian home-service network, as part of HAUSE Energy. HAUSE is not an electricity supplier, a utility or an engineering firm. To speak with a person, call +1 587-316-6194. Canadian number; carrier or international calling charges may apply.

The operating principle

In the markets where the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the split, the utility’s delivery charges — which include demand charges, fixed charges and riders — are between a quarter and more than half of the commercial price, and they stay regulated whichever supplier you use. A supplier is paid for the supply, so that part of the bill is not what it is working on. We say it on the homepage, because it is true, and because it is where this site starts.

How we behave

• We publish our formulas and our known limitations, including the ones that make us look unfinished.
• We do not publish live rates, because a public number is not your executable price.
• We do not promise savings.
• Supplier compensation cannot affect ranking.
• The bill check says so when staying put is the better decision, and a review that ends that way counts as a successful one.

Why we publish our limits

A site can look finished long before it is. We would rather show our limits. The product is accuracy, and a site that hides what it has not yet verified is making a claim about its own completeness that it cannot support.

So the calculators say the engine has not yet been checked against real bills. A utility page says so where it does not quote a tariff, and where it does, the figures are the utility’s own filed schedule, dated and linked. Every price is labelled as an average, never a quote. Each of those is a limit that closes with work, and none of them is a number we invented to fill a space.