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Free commercial electricity bill check

Three numbers off one bill, and you see where you stand against your state, how much of the bill a supplier could even touch, and what is worth a look. Add more detail and it gets sharper. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to send it.

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A commercial electricity bill check compares your price per kWh with the average for businesses in your state, separates the supply a competitive supplier can price from the delivery and demand charges your utility sets, and flags what is worth a closer look, such as a demand ratchet or a rate schedule that no longer fits. It takes three numbers and runs in your browser.

Check your bill

The first three boxes are enough. Everything is on a commercial bill; the optional detail is usually in the usage and demand sections. The example below is a real calculation on made-up numbers, so you can see what comes back before you enter yours.

Where the meter is
From the usage section of the bill
Everything billed for electricity, before sales tax
More detail makes the check sharper (optional)
The energy itself. Often its own block, or the supplier’s own bill
Only on demand-metered accounts; look for a kW charge
The highest kW in the period
If it is higher than the peak, a past peak is setting a floor
On the contract, not the bill
Compares your use and your rate with similar buildings
The whole building, or the space you pay the electricity for

Worked example · Pennsylvania · 41,000 kWh · $6,100 before sales tax · replace these with your own numbers

Your rate

14.88¢ per kWh

9% above the Pennsylvania average

Your bill14.88¢
Pennsylvania average13.59¢
US average13.87¢

At the Pennsylvania average the same usage would cost about $5,572 a month, $528 less than you pay — $6,337 over a year. That gap is context, not a quote.

How your building compares

12.9 kWh per square foot a year, if every month looked like this one. That puts this office building above the middle: of 245 surveyed buildings of this kind in the Northeast region, between half and 3 in 4 used less.

For a 38,000 square foot building, Pennsylvania businesses typically pay about 13.98¢ per kWh: the state average of 13.59¢ scaled by 1.03, because in the same survey smaller buildings paid more per kWh than the average building. Yours is 6% above that.

One month is not a year, so the use figure is rough for a building with a strong summer or winter peak: the cost estimator takes 12 months of kWh for a firmer answer. The survey is EIA's 2018 survey of whole buildings, so a suite inside a larger building can differ.

Where this bill goes

$2,700 supply, the part a supplier prices (44%)$3,400 delivery, demand and fixed charges, set by your utility (56%)

What is worth a look

  1. Your load shape may not fit your rate schedule

    Medium confidence

    Load factor is 33.9% — low. You draw a high peak relative to how much you actually consume.

    Demand-weighted rate schedules are built for steadier consumers. An account at this load factor is often paying a demand rate designed for someone who uses the capacity far more than you do.

    $1,584–$4,950 a year if acted on. Range is the share of your annual demand charges that a better-fitting schedule could avoid. It is an indication only — the real figure comes from re-billing your 12 months under each alternative tariff.

    What to do: Re-bill 12 months of your actual usage under every schedule you are eligible for, using the currently filed tariff. Fully verifiable by you or your accountant. Read the mechanics

  2. You are billed on a demand floor, not on what you drew

    High confidence

    Billed demand is 196 kW but your measured peak was 168 kW — a difference of 28 kW.

    This is the signature of a ratchet clause: a past peak is setting a floor under your current bill. It persists until that peak ages out of the tariff window.

    $1,414–$2,829 a year if acted on. Range reflects the floor decaying as the old peak ages out. Full value assumes it persists a further 12 months.

    What to do: Read the ratchet clause in your filed tariff to find the date the floor drops, and plan any load addition around it. Read the mechanics

  3. No contract expiry date recorded

    Needs more data

    We do not have an expiry date for this site.

    This is the most common gap and the most expensive one. A contract that expires unmanaged rolls onto terms set by the contract rather than by negotiation.

    What to do: The date is on the contract, not the bill. Also read the notice period — it frequently falls well before the expiry date itself. Read the mechanics

  4. Most of this bill is not shoppable

    High confidence

    44% of the bill is supply. 56% is delivery, demand, fixed charges and taxes.

    No supplier can price the larger part of this bill. Effort spent only on a supply rate is aimed at the smaller half.

    What to do: Work both halves. The regulated half responds to rate schedule fit, demand management and billing accuracy. Read the mechanics

Taken together, the findings that carry a figure are worth about $2,998–$7,779 a year if every one were acted on. That is an indication computed from your own numbers, not a quote and not a promise.

What happens next

  • Ask us to look at the real bill

    Supplier comparison is not open in Pennsylvania yet, so the money to go after today is the part no supplier can touch: the rate schedule your account is on, demand charges and billing accuracy. We re-bill your usage under the schedules you are eligible for and show the arithmetic.

  • Check my renewal window

    You did not enter a contract end date. It is on the contract, not the bill, and it decides when comparing offers can happen.

Send this to us

Computed in your browser from the numbers above, with the same engine as the Power Desk. State averages are EIA's commercial figures for the 12 months to August 2026 (preliminary): dated context, not a quote and not an available offer. Nothing on this page is sent anywhere.

What the check looks at

Your rate

Total charges divided by kWh, set against what businesses in your state pay on average over the last 12 months (U.S. government data), with the gap in dollars.

Your building

Add the kind of building and its floor area and it compares your use with similar buildings in a federal survey, and your rate with what a building your size typically pays, because small buildings pay more per kWh.

Where the bill goes

With your supply charges, the part a supplier could price and the part your utility sets. Without them, the typical delivery share for your state where it is published.

What is worth a look

Findings from your own numbers: a demand ratchet, a rate schedule that does not fit your load shape, a renewal that is close, or data that would sharpen the answer. The same engine as the Power Desk.

What it will not do

  • It will not show you a rate you can buy. A state average is context. A real offer needs a verified account.
  • It will not promise savings. A figure is what a finding is worth if acted on, with its assumption stated, never a prediction.
  • It will not tell you that you can switch supplier. That depends on your state and your utility territory, and is confirmed from the account.

Want a person to look at the real bill?

The check above is yours either way. If you want a person to look at the actual bill, send a request below and we will reply with what we need and how to send it. When you have run the check, the state, spend and a short summary are filled in below, and you can change or clear any of it first.

Ask us to look at the real bill

Enough to establish whether there is anything worth doing. We confirm the utility territory and eligibility from the account before anything else happens.

Only used if you ask us to call
The address on the bill, not your mailing address. You can add it later; it is not needed to start.
We confirm this from the account anyway
What prompted this, what you have already tried, anything unusual about the account. Up to 4,000 characters.

Please do not enter account numbers, meter identifiers or ESI IDs here. We do not need them to start, and this form is not the right channel for them. We will say what we need, and how to send it, once we know there is something worth doing.

Permission

Nothing here is pre-ticked. This is the only permission the request needs, and you can withdraw it later.

I agree that HAUSE may use my details to review and respond to this request. Any sharing with a supplier or provider will be discussed with me. This is not a marketing subscription.

Disclosure version 2026-10-26.1. The exact text you agree to is recorded with your submission, so what you consented to can be reconstructed later.

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What we would need to go further

Minimum and preferred inputs
InputMinimumPreferred
Bills1 recent bill12 months
ConsumptionkWh for the period12 months of kWh
DemandPeak kW if metered12 months of peak kW, or interval data
IdentifiersNot needed to start. If we go further: the account or ESI ID and service address, asked for separatelyEvery meter on the property
ContractCurrent supplier if anyContract, expiry date and terms

What happens to what you send

The check above runs in your browser and sends nothing. If you send us a request, we receive what you type into the form, as the privacy policy sets out. This site does not take bill documents or file uploads, so please keep account numbers and meter identifiers out of the form. Your details are not sold or used for advertising, nothing is shared with a supplier without your separate permission for one specific event, and market email is sent only if you tick the separate box for it. You can ask us to delete what you sent at any time. How the data is handled.

Answers to the things people ask before sending anything

Common objections, answered directly
QuestionAnswer
Will I get cold-called?No. We do not cold-call or send text messages. If you send a request we reply to it, and anything further happens because you asked.
What is the catch?Once supplier comparison opens, a supplier pays a fee when a business chooses to switch through us, and you pay nothing for the comparison. That is a conflict of interest, so the check says plainly when staying put is the better decision, and it works without the comparison. See how we make money.
I already have a broker.Then use the check as a second opinion. Delivery, demand charges and rate schedule fit are set by the utility, not by whichever supplier or broker you use, so they are worth checking whoever handles your supply.
My bill is complicated.That is what the check is for. Multi-meter and multi-site bills are the hardest to check by eye.
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