ATA Inc. provides independent utility audits and rate optimization for complex facilities and institutions. Using proprietary billing analytics and our historic pricing libraries, we uncover those hard-to-find savings and position clients with the most advantageous rate structures available.
Our seasonal weather swing indicator services enhance purchasing oversight and provide early visibility, often before market pricing reactions have set in.
Our sole responsibility is protecting our clients' financial interests and improving cost performance.
Billing errors and rate inefficiencies rarely appear as simple line-item mistakes. They are embedded within tariff classifications, meter configurations, weather-driven demand swings, and equipment performance patterns. Improving rates can involve complex usage predictive modeling and special pricing negotiations for larger users
Traditional accounting systems are not designed to detect these structural inefficiencies. ATA’s integrated audit methodology combines proprietary billing analytics, weather-normalized modeling, and performance review to uncover hidden financial exposure.
A proper utility audit requires more than invoice review. It demands:
• Detailed billing field validation
• Rate structure modeling
• Meter and tariff verification
• On-site surveys and infrastructure validation
• Weather-normalized performance analysis
• Experienced negotiation with utilities
ATA’s methodology is built on independence, technical rigor, and measurable financial outcomes.
Our fees are derived solely from verified refunds and documented rate reductions. If we do not deliver measurable results, there is no fee.
ATA is non-utility and non-supplier owned, so we keep your interest at the forefront of all recommendations.
We combine billing field validation, rate structure modeling, on-site surveys, and weather-normalized analytics to uncover structural inefficiencies most internal systems miss.
With over three decades of experience across healthcare, municipal, education, and industrial facilities, ATA delivers disciplined, defensible savings strategies
When Newton County faced a projected budget deficit, ATA was engaged to provide independent utility auditing and rate oversight. Through detailed billing validation, rate analysis, and negotiation, the County corrected structural inefficiencies and improved utility cost performance.
By year-end, the County had transitioned from deficit projection to surplus — demonstrating the measurable impact of disciplined utility oversight.
Results:
• $758k Recovered
• Over $250k Ongoing Annual Savings
• Sites Reviewed: water treatment; jail; municipal buildings; fire and police stations; other misc sites
Watch the Now-Retired County Manager Lloyd Kerr discuss the results.
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Many organizations assume their utility costs are optimized — but structural inefficiencies often go undetected.
Rate classification responsibility typically falls on the customer. Misapplied tariffs are common and often persist for years..
Complex tariff structures, system integrations, and data configuration issues frequently produce billing inaccuracies.
Utility oversight requires forensic-level rate modeling, site validation, and experienced negotiation
Even negotiated pricing agreements require periodic validation to ensure correct administration.
ATA has proven time and again to achieve significant savings in third party audits behind internal staff and also behind other consulting firms that had not met client's expectations.
Manual maintenance checks are wrought with mechanical procedural errors and diagnostic oversights, which commonly result in premature equipment failures. In fact, the less your unit is manually interrogated the fewer opportunities for technician errors in fouling refrigerant oil (commonly a compressor killer).
Larger customers tend to fall prey to this thought process. ATA has successfully re-negotiated many real-time pricing and special pricing contracts. We have even seen some contracts that were being administered incorrectly by the vendor, so it pays to have experts review your situation periodically.
