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Accurate Data: The Key to Benchmarking Success
Why benchmarking programs succeed or fail on the accuracy of the underlying utility data — and how a forensic audit builds the clean baseline your ESG reporting depends on.
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UtiliSave's Negotiation Skills Make Us Tenacious Advocates for Our Clients
A healthcare and nursing facility was placed on an incorrect billing rate for years. UtiliSave presented case law that the utility couldn't refute and secured a 5-year retroactive refund with interest, plus additional discounts.
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A Trailing Audit: Over $5.8 Million Recovered
Performed after other consultants had already audited the same accounts. UtiliSave's trailing audit found what previous auditors — including law firms and competing firms — left on the table.
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UtiliSave Identifies the Most Favorable Billing Rates
One of New York City's largest residential landlords engaged UtiliSave to audit electricity, gas, oil and steam accounts. Multivariable regression analysis uncovered a more favorable rate-class across the portfolio.
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UtiliSave Finds Savings for Seven Clients Where Procurement Companies Did Not
Seven clients first used their energy procurement company to audit utility bills and recovered nothing. A UtiliSave re-audit of the same accounts uncovered from $70,000 to $2,843,552 per client.
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Interval Data Recorder Meters: $300,000 Saved with BillAudit™
Fifteen-minute interval data — 3,000 readings a month — opens the door to savings a monthly read can never reveal. Here's how granular data plus BillAudit™ turned into a six-figure recovery.
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Over $2.7 Million Saved for a United States Government Agency
Eleven federal facilities, one enterprise-wide audit. UtiliSave uncovered $900K+ in meter and rate errors, secured $200K in overlooked exemptions, and won an Article 78 proceeding worth $525,000 in the State Supreme Court.
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Over $5 Million Saved with a Deep-Dive Audit on Multiple Utilities
A university and teaching hospital suspected missed savings across water, sewer, gas and electricity. Auditing the school and the hospital simultaneously surfaced significant, separate recoveries for both.
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UtiliSave Finds $17.5 Million in Energy and Water Savings
One of the world's most prestigious university hospitals — audited for years by another firm that found nothing in water. UtiliSave secured $10M+ in electricity and $7.5M in water/sewer, including twin $350,000 demand-billing refunds.
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Continuous Savings for a Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center
A 500-bed non-profit nursing and rehabilitation center, a UtiliSave client for over 20 years. An $800,000 adjustment and a separate $150,000 correction for building-use misclassifications brought lifetime recoveries to nearly $2 million.
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UtiliSave Recovers $619,439 in ESCO Overcharges
A Brooklyn hospital's ESCO was switched without consent or regulatory approval. UtiliSave negotiated a settlement with the ESCO, then uncovered a further $300,000 supply calculation error and a $200,000 tax adjustment.
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UtiliSave's Manufacturing Expertise Results in $795,985 in Savings
A multi-billion-dollar food manufacturer suspected overcharges across hundreds of U.S. locations. UtiliSave identified a costly tax issue and a lesser-known manufacturing exemption most auditors miss.
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UtiliSave Secures $2,000,000 Refund for Client
A 530-bed non-profit hospital system serving a million Brooklyn residents. UtiliSave's continuous BillAudit™ process delivered a $2 million refund through rigorous, ongoing data analysis.
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Over $6 Million Secured Through a Continuous Audit
One of the largest self-managed office REITs in the U.S., 39 properties. UtiliSave's proprietary rate-modeling uncovered meter multiplier errors, double bills and missed sewer allowances — $600K in the first six months alone.
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UtiliSave Leverages Tax and Tariff Expertise to Our Client's Advantage
A 60-story Manhattan luxury condominium. A tax issue returned $123,000; a year later, tariff expertise turned hurricane-damaged meter estimates into a further $132,000 refund.
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UtiliSave Recovers $800,000 in Sales Tax Savings for a NYC Office Building
Utility sales and use tax reviews are part of every UtiliSave audit at no added cost. For this client it meant an $800,000 tax refund plus a separate $420,000 correction for years on the wrong billing rate.
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Auditing Past and Current Utility Bills Produces a $700,000 Adjustment
Seven years into the relationship, a retroactive audit of old bills found a large non-profit medical center had never been moved to the favorable rate its own demand levels required — even after the utility first rejected the claim.
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UtiliSave Saves a Client $110,000 in Less Than 30 Days
A property management firm faced a shutoff notice over a disputed $150,000 catch-up bill. One conversation with UtiliSave, immediate action, and the matter was resolved before the utility's deadline.
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Over $14 Million Saved for a Leading Educational Institution
400+ utility accounts, $100M+ in annual utility spend, a medical school and residence halls included. UtiliSave even won an Article 78 proceeding against the water supplier for $1.5 million in credits.
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Nearly $2 Million Saved for a Manufacturing Client
A pharmaceutical manufacturer had optimized the physical side of its energy use but never the billing side. UtiliSave found the savings hiding in the non-physical half of the equation.
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Over $515,000 in Savings and Refunds Within 60 Days of Engagement
One of Midtown Manhattan's largest Class-A office towers (1.6M+ SF). A physical inspection of meters across water/sewer, electricity and steam produced results within two months of engagement.
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Over $1.1 Million in Billing Errors and Overcharges Recovered
A religious organization with hundreds of NY locations had no time to police its bills. UtiliSave caught an 18-month steam meter calibration error and a rate misclassification worth tens of thousands a year, going forward.
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Auditing Past and Current Utility Bills Produces Continuous Savings
A companion account of the medical center engagement above — seven years of continuous audits and the retroactive review that finally corrected a disadvantageous billing rate the utility's own records had obscured.
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Sharing All Information About Your Utilities Drives Greater Results
The lesson behind the property-management shutoff story above: the details clients mention 'in passing' are often the ones worth the most. Full disclosure, faster resolution.
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