Georgia Business Energy Bill Audit Guide

Georgia business gas review begins with the service territory. The PSC describes Atlanta Gas Light as a delivery company whose system is served by certified marketers, while Liberty Utilities and municipal gas systems operate differently. An Atlanta Gas Light comparison should not be described as a statewide arrangement.

Identify the actual gas service structure

Read the utility and marketer names on the statement and confirm the service address. In the AGL territory, distinguish the regulated delivery/base charge from the marketer's commodity and customer-service charges. The PSC's gas-bill explanation is a useful reference for those roles; an actual business tariff and agreement determine the amounts.

For a bakery or restaurant, cooking and hot-water use may continue through the year while heating adds winter demand. Separate that operating description from any claim about an available price. Twelve monthly usage quantities provide a more informative baseline than a single high winter invoice.

Compare the marketer components once

Take the current and offered commodity prices from their effective schedules. Check whether the marketer customer-service fee is separate or already reflected in a quoted comparison. If both scenarios assume the same AGL delivery charge, do not count removing that charge as supplier savings.

The term matters. A constant commodity price for a defined period differs from a variable price that changes monthly. Ask about renewal, cancellation, credit requirements and the exact start date. A low first-month number cannot represent the full year unless the agreement actually provides that rate throughout the modeled period.

An illustrative restaurant calculation

Assume a hypothetical restaurant uses 24,000 therms in a representative year. A current $0.80 per therm and separate $15 monthly fee produce $19,380 of modeled annual supply cost. An offered $0.74 and separate $25 fee produce $18,060. The modeled annual difference is $1,320, before switching cost and excluded delivery/tax components.

Those prices are examples, not Georgia marketer quotes. If the offered price is variable or includes a volume condition, the simple constant-rate comparison is only a scenario. The result should be stored with the actual proposal and assumptions.

Electricity is a separate review question

Do not infer a general retail electric-switching option from Georgia's AGL gas-marketer program. For an electric bill question, identify the serving utility and business tariff. The useful issues may involve demand, operating schedule, account classification or the accuracy of a charge rather than a new supplier quote.

Collect the billed kW and kWh, relevant invoice lines and the reason for concern. A rising total can reflect usage, a tariff component or another factor. Ask for support for the specific charge before calling it an error.

Prepare the conversation

Provide the business's state and actual utility or AGL/marketer context in the initial request. State whether the question is commodity pricing, a fee, a renewal or a utility charge. Keep account identifiers and bill images out of that initial form. This creates a useful starting point without confusing an informational inquiry with an enrollment authorization.

Use the result as a starting point

Once the current and offered components match, use the business bill checker to show the arithmetic. It holds entered prices constant, does not fetch live offers, and does not independently calculate utility demand, delivery or tariff charges. Use the optional twelve-month usage series when one month is unrepresentative.

For an account question, send your business, state, utility and the issue through the first-party review form. Keep bills and account identifiers out of the initial message; arrange document sharing after connecting. A listing in this guide is not a supplier-availability guarantee.