Billing Relationship Segmentation
As described under Billing Relationships, a service provider may bill for you, you may bill for them, or you may each send a separate bill to the customer. In the table below, we have shown the assumed billing relationships for each service provider.
Service Provider
Billing Relationship
AmeriGas
We Bill For Them - Bill Ready
TransGas
We Bill For Them - Bill Ready
Green Power
We Bill For Them - Rate Ready
Cheap Power - Res
We Bill For Them - Rate Ready
Cheap Power - Com/Ind
Dual Billing
Us - Billable
It's Us
Us - Non billable
None
ElectriCorp
They Bill For Us - Bill Ready
TeniCorp
We Bill For Them - Bill Ready
MeterCorp
Dual Billing
Notice that we had to introduce additional service providers:
Cheap Power has two service providers - one for residential customers, the other for commercial/industrial customers. This is necessary because we provide billing service for them for residential customers ( We Bill For Them - Rate Ready ), but for commercial and industrial customers they bill for themselves ( Dual Billing ).
Our own service provider (the service provider known as "Us") has two service providers - one for energy supply because we bill for the energy we supply ( It's Us ), and another for meter service because we don't create bills for meter service ( None ).