Electricity
The charge is calculated. So it can be miscalculated.
A commercial electricity invoice is not a single price. It is a slab calculation, a surcharge, a fixed charge, often a demand charge, and sometimes a penalty — each with its own inputs, each capable of being wrong.
What we check on every invoice
- Meter read continuity — does this read follow the last one, and is it actual or estimated?
- Slab application — is consumption being charged across the correct tariff bands for the account type?
- Days in period — billing periods that stretch or overlap distort slab calculations and inflate the charge.
- Fuel surcharge — applied at the correct rate against the correct volume.
- Fixed and meter charges — correct for the supply size, and not duplicated across a multi-meter site.
- Demand charge — on larger supplies, charged against maximum recorded demand.
- Power factor — a poor power factor attracts a penalty. It is also fixable.
- VAT — applied to the right base, which is not always the invoice total.
- Account and premises — that the meter still belongs to you, and the period matches your occupancy.
A specific opportunity
Contracted capacity is worth a look.
Where a supply carries a demand charge, that charge is driven by the supply rating agreed at connection — set from a load schedule submitted at the time, often years ago, often generously. If the rating is larger than the site has ever actually needed, the demand charge has been running every month regardless.
The rating can be reassessed. Where load history supports a smaller supply, a downgrade can be requested, and the recurring charge falls from that point forward. It needs the landlord's consent where you are a tenant, and it needs real load data to make the case.
Two honest caveats. This is a forward-looking saving, not a refund — it reduces what you pay from here, it does not recover what you have paid. And it depends on obtaining interval consumption data, which is not guaranteed to be available for every account. We will tell you which category yours falls into before we start.
What we don't do
We do not negotiate your electricity rate, and we will not tell you we can. Electricity supply in the UAE is a regulated single-buyer market — DEWA, EWEC, SEWA and EWE hold exclusive distribution rights in their territories, and there is no competitive retail market to switch between or bid into for ordinary commercial accounts.
Anyone offering to shop your UAE electricity supply around is describing a market that does not exist here. The savings in this market come from being charged correctly and using less — which is exactly where we work.
Send us three months of electricity invoices.
Two or three sites is enough to show you what validation actually surfaces on your estate.