Simple Five-pronged approach
Utilizing any single strategy below can generate significant savings. Combine them and the savings can be massive!
- Solar Savings (Offset Usage + Hedge Rates)
Reduce grid exposure with a solar strategy designed around your load profile and payback targets.
- LED Lighting Upgrades (Immediate kWh Reduction)
Lower consumption and maintenance with a retrofit plan built for fast payback and minimal downtime.
- Incentives & Subsidy Optimization (Capture Available Funding)
Identify and help leverage applicable federal, state, and utility incentives—including tax credits, rebates, and grant programs—to improve project economics and shorten payback timelines.
- Energy Rate Optimization (Stop Overpaying)
Analyze tariffs, demand charges, and supplier options to secure better pricing and avoid costly rate traps.
- Bill audits (Reclaim over payments)
Review bills and look for overpayments, and erroneous payments.
Why Most Businesses Overpay
Most businesses don’t have an energy strategy, they have an energy bill.
Utility pricing is complex, suppliers change terms, and building upgrades compete with other priorities. RateCut makes it simple: we identify where you’re overpaying, quantify the fix, and help you execute.
Bullet proof points:
- Rate structures and demand charges quietly inflate costs
- Lighting and controls are often low-hanging fruit
- Solar decisions fail when they aren’t based on actual load data
- “Too good to be true” deals happen when numbers aren’t transparent
A clear process that respects your time.
Step one: Share a recent utility bill (and basic facility info).
We’ll request only what we need—no long questionnaires
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Step two: Receive a Savings Roadmap.
We show you where savings exist, what it costs, and how quickly it pays back.
Step three: Choose your path.
Implement one lever or bundle them—you stay in control
Real savings. Real businesses. Clear math.
Because every building and rate structure is different, the examples below reflect real-world outcomes reported in publicly available case studies. We use these benchmarks to help clients set realistic expectations and prioritize the fastest-payback opportunities.
LED Lighting Retrofits
Scenario: Large facility troffer/fixture retrofit
Public case studies show LED retrofits can deliver ~50%+ lighting energy reductions in common upgrade paths, with meaningful operational benefits (better lighting quality, fewer maintenance calls).
Scenario: Health system / campus-scale lighting upgrade
Some large organizations have reported multi-million-dollar annual savings at scale when rolling out lighting retrofits across many buildings, driven by big kWh reductions and broad deployment.
Solar Savings
Scenario: Customer-owned commercial solar
Public case studies show that businesses that own their solar systems can achieve strong long-term savings by offsetting grid electricity, capturing available tax incentives and depreciation benefits, and reducing exposure to future utility rate increases—when systems are sized to actual facility load and operating patterns.
Utility Bill Audits & Rate Optimization
Scenario: Reduce costs by aligning tariffs and demand charges to operations
Utility pricing often includes demand charges and rate structures that don’t match how a facility actually runs. Bill reviews can surface opportunities to reduce exposure by correcting rate/tariff mismatches, managing peaks, and tightening supplier terms.
Scenario: Retail portfolio rate/tariff optimization
In published industry examples, tariff/rate analysis has produced significant cost reductions for multi-site portfolios—especially where demand charges and rate class selection materially impact total cost.
Whole-Building “Stacked” Savings
Scenario: Layer no/low-cost actions + efficiency upgrades
For many commercial buildings, credible guidance suggests that meaningful savings are often available through a combination of operational improvements and targeted investments—especially when approached systematically rather than as one-off projects.
How we use these benchmarks at RateCut
We treat these results as reference points, then build your plan from your utility data, operating hours, facility layout, and rate structure, so your roadmap is based on verifiable assumptions and measurable outcomes, not generic promises.
About RateCut Energy Advisors
Experience you can trust. Analysis you can verify. Savings you can see.
RateCut Energy Advisors was founded to address the growing impact of rising energy costs on business competitiveness, particularly as a slowing economy forces organizations to scrutinize every line item in their operating budget.
We help organizations make smarter decisions about how they buy, use, and offset energy. Our approach is rooted in data, transparency, and practical execution, not sales pressure or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Our team brings experience across commercial solar strategy, energy procurement, utility rate analysis, and efficiency upgrades such as LED lighting. We understand how utility pricing works, how facilities actually consume power, and where the fastest, most reliable savings typically come from. Just as important, we understand the operational realities businesses face, and we design recommendations that respect them.
What sets RateCut apart is our advisory-first mindset. We start by analyzing your utility data and usage patterns, then clearly explain your options, expected savings, eligibility for subsidies and payback timelines. You’ll see the numbers and assumptions so you can make confident decisions on your terms.
Some clients begin with a simple rate optimization. Others pursue LED upgrades for immediate reductions, or solar strategies to stabilize long-term costs. Many combine approaches over time.
At RateCut Energy Advisors, success is measured by one thing:
Did we help you lower energy costs in a way that made sense for your business?
If the answer is yes, we’ve done our job.