Your tower pays for its worst fifteen minutes.

SDG&E bills a large building on its single highest 15-minute demand each month. On the AL-TOU-L primary schedule that peak costs $112 per kW in summer, before a single kilowatt-hour is counted. We find what your building overpays, fix it for a flat fee, and guarantee the result.

Building load todayWith a 200 kW batteryOn-peak, 4 to 9 pm

Example tower: 643 kW peak, 2.6 GWh a year, modeled on its hottest July weekday. A battery holds the afternoon at 443 kW and recharges after 9 pm, so the month's billed peak falls by 200 kW.

Three fixes with no construction

AL-TOU-L · AL-TOU2 · CPP-D

The right rate schedule

We re-bill a full year of your 15-minute data on every schedule you qualify for and file the change with SDG&E.

PowerBase · PowerOn · Power100

The right generation plan

Delivery costs the same on every plan. Only generation differs, and the gap on a large tower runs to tens of thousands a year.

Every line, every month

Bill errors

Wrong voltage, wrong schedule, duplicate meters and stale charges, checked against the tariff line by line.

What a scan looks like

What the scan includes

Your current SDG&E rate schedule and what drives the bill, including how much is demand charges
Every schedule you qualify for, priced on your own 15-minute usage for the past 12 months
Your generation plan compared with every SDG&E and Community Power option
A line-by-line check of your bills for errors
A battery estimate: size, cost, annual savings and payback

Every savings figure comes with the assumptions behind it.

Example · modeled downtown office tower, AL-TOU-L primary, on SDCP PowerOn

Finding	Per year
Move to AL-TOU2	$77,914
Move generation to SDCP PowerBase	$30,011
No-capex savings, 9.0% of a $1.2M bill	$107,925
Add a 200 kW / 800 kWh battery (payback about 2.9 years)	$158,731

Your numbers depend on your load shape. The scan is built from your own SDG&E interval data, not averages.

Download the sample scan (PDF) · illustrative, modeled building, not a customer

Pricing

Rate Fix$5K–$15K

Flat fee by annual bill size, paid at signing. If verified first-year savings come in below the fee, we refund the difference.

Monitoring$6,000/yr

We re-run your building every time SDG&E or your generation provider changes rates, and file the benchmarking report the City requires.

Battery projects$0 from you

We bring financed storage developers and run the comparison. The developer pays our fee when the project closes.

How it works

Share your dataAuthorize SDG&E's Share My Data for your building's meters, or send the last 12 monthly bills.
Get the scanWithin two business days: every schedule and plan priced on your actual usage, plus a battery estimate.
We make the changesYou approve, pay the Rate Fix fee, and we file every change with SDG&E and your generation provider.
Savings are verified monthlyEach bill is re-run on your old schedule, so the savings are measured, not estimated.

Who's behind Tower Rate

Preston Ochsner, founder. Preston has worked in energy markets since 1999. His work includes investment banking on energy transactions, focused on retail electricity, and investing in early-stage energy and power companies.

Tower Rate applies that experience to one question: what a large San Diego building should be paying SDG&E. It is an independent business that analyzes and fixes electricity bills. It does not provide investment banking, securities, legal or tax services.

Serving San Diego County · Based in Dallas–Fort Worth · hello@towerrate.com · LinkedIn

Get a free scan

Email the building address and your last 12 SDG&E bills to

hello@towerrate.com