Patent ID: 7309979

Claim:
A utility services billing system for assisting property managers in billing tenants within one or more buildings having a plurality of different tenants that have one or more different leaseholds within the buildings based on each tenant's use of electric power utility services supplied to each building as a whole by one or more utility companies but billed to the tenants by the property manager based on their individual use of these services, comprising the steps of: a) collecting leasehold based data on tenant use of utility services from a plurality of electric sub meters for tracking the use such services at the individual leaseholds of the tenants within the buildings; b) analyzing such leasehold data to calculate the amounts of utility services KWH consumption and levels of utility services KW demand by the individual leaseholds in the buildings; c) analyzing such leasehold data to calculate the amounts of utility services consumption and levels of utility services demand by each tenant on a combined aggregate basis across all of the leaseholds held by individual tenants having multiple leaseholds including the maximum amount of coincident demand by such tenants having multiple leaseholds; d) computing individual tenant utility bill payment amounts based on said utility services consumption and demand calculations; and e) reporting said amounts of consumption, demand, coincident demand and said corresponding payment amounts to said property manager on a tenant-by-tenant basis for use in billing said tenants and providing tenants with basic information on their use of utility services.