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.

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 ).