DCS
Strategic Energy Advisory, all 50 states

Maximum energy savings, every utility, every state.

We lower utility costs for commercial portfolios, municipalities, and public entities through rate optimization, supply procurement, demand strategy, incentive recovery, community solar enrollment, tax recovery, and bill audits where applicable. Continuous, not one-and-done. Nationwide.

Active utilities tracked, all 50 states

Oncor · CenterPoint · PG&E · SCE · Con Edison · National Grid · Eversource · Georgia Power · Duke · BGE · PEPCO

Recent finding pipeline

Audit excerpts, last 90 days

  • Tariff misclassification

    Eligible for GS-D rather than GS-3

    BGE, Maryland

    $42,800 / yr

  • 4CP transmission exposure

    Curtailment skipped on 3 of 4 coincident peaks

    Oncor, Texas (ERCOT)

    $61,200 / yr

  • Real-time pricing exposure

    Hourly RTP rate without consumption-shifting plan

    PG&E, California

    $27,500 / yr

  • Franchise fee error

    Municipality rate 1.2% vs billed 2.8%

    Washington Gas, DC

    $3,940 refund

Anonymized portfolio examples

27 finding types tracked

Illustrative findings from anonymized client portfolios across ERCOT, PJM, and MISO utility territories.

What we do

Developments CS lowers utility costs for commercial property owners, municipalities, and public entities across all 50 states. We do it through rate optimization, supply procurement, demand strategy, incentive recovery, community solar enrollment, tax recovery, billing forensics, and continuous portfolio management. Many accounts have no bill errors at all; the savings still come from putting them on the right rate, the right supply contract, and the right programs.

We operate in all 50 states, across every ISO and RTO footprint (PJM, ERCOT, CAISO, ISO-NE, NYISO, MISO, SPP) and across both competitive and traditional supply markets. We track every active utility rate case that affects an account we manage. We hold every recovery and optimization through to settlement. Our portal gives your team continuous visibility into every bill, finding, and dollar saved.

Energy audit work desk with calculator, efficiency chart, lightbulb, and a small solar panel array

Illustrative. Actual audit work is portal-based and runs against live utility data.

How we find the dollars

Every saving opportunity, surfaced and documented.

Rate optimization is where most of the recurring savings come from, and rate optimization needs evidence. So we go bill by bill: every invoice is OCR-extracted, line-item parsed, and reconciled against the active tariff, the meter specifications, and the rate environment in effect during the billing period. The audit is one of eight methods we use to lower your costs, and the source of evidence for the other seven.

  • Rate fit, supply contract terms, demand structure, incentive eligibility
  • 27 distinct finding categories run against every account, every cycle
  • Every recommendation reviewed by a human analyst before it reaches you
8 ways
We lower your costs

Rate optimization, supply procurement, demand strategy, incentive recovery, community solar, tax recovery, bill audits, and continuous portfolio management. Stacked, not standalone.

Continuous
Not one-and-done

Tariffs change, rate cases settle, contracts roll over, programs open and close. We work every account every month so the savings compound instead of leak back.

50 states
Nationwide coverage

Commercial portfolios, municipalities, and public entities, anywhere your meters are. Working knowledge of the controlling tariffs, active rate cases, ISO and RTO programs, and incentive administrators in every state where we hold accounts.

How it works

A clear path from first bill to lower annualized cost

We do not start with a sales pitch and a long discovery phase. We start with your bills, and we keep going long after the first round of findings clears.

  1. STEP 01

    Onboard your accounts

    We become an authorized agent on every utility account in your portfolio and pull twelve to twenty-four months of bills, interval data, supply contracts, and prior adjustments directly from the source.

  2. STEP 02

    Identify every savings lever

    We review tariffs, supply contracts, demand structure, tax exposure, incentive eligibility, community solar fit, and bill accuracy. Each account gets ranked by recovery dollar potential. Audit-style review is the evidence layer; the savings come from the full set of moves we can make.

  3. STEP 03

    Recover, optimize, and keep going

    We file recovery claims, implement rate switches, run supply procurement, enroll qualifying programs, and stay engaged through every rate case and contract cycle. You see every finding, every dollar saved, and the annualized impact in your portal.

Where we work

Five verticals where strategic energy savings work matters most.

We focus on commercial portfolios where utility spend is large enough, complex enough, and recurring enough that continuous optimization compounds into meaningful annualized savings.

FAQ

Common questions

Find out what your portfolio could be paying instead.

Send us one recent utility bill from any account, anywhere in the country. Fifteen minutes with it is usually enough to tell you whether there is meaningful savings on the table, whether through rate optimization, supply, demand strategy, incentives, tax exposure, or audit findings.