Leaders in Utility Finance
Navigate complex financial challenges with an established partner that understands your world. UFS helps electric, water, wastewater, telecommunications, gas and solid waste utilities with independent financial planning, cost of service studies and rate design services.
Services
Cost of Service Studies
Our experts will help ensure that your rates recover costs by equitably allocating revenue requirements among various customer classes and defining an optimal rate structure.
Financial Planning
Plan for the future with short and long-term insights into your finances with specialized financial planning and development of key financial targets.
Rate Design
Our experts will design rates for each class of service to help meet your utility’s revenue needs and any other rate design goals and objectives you have.
Insights
We have our ears to the ground, keeping tabs on industry changes and trends. See our latest insights.
How Public Power Sets Electricity Rates
Public Power Utilities identify electricity rates based on cost of service while keeping customer needs and the community’s objectives front and center.
As community-owned utilities, they do not answer to remote shareholders and are not driven by a profit motive. Revenues are invested right back into the utility and community.
Finance Fundamentals are Key to COVID Recovery
Current financial data on the impact of COVID-19 on community-owned utilities reveals several national trends and the need to factor in case-by-case issues during the analysis. Above all, the data makes clear that the best strategy for a strong recovery is following the fundamentals of utility financial management: develop key financial targets, make a plan to meet those targets, and stay true to the plan.
What a Long-Term Rate Strategy Should Address
Electric rate structures have the potential to evolve and benefit utilities and customers. Advancements in technology have made it possible to recognize and charge customers based on their usage patterns, relay accurate price signals, and design rate structures that reflect the fixed and variable costs of providing electric service.
Your Dynamic
Finance Partner
As your dynamic finance partner, we know you have goals, and we’ll help you get there. Our experts know how to listen and understand your organization’s goals before our work even begins, ensuring we can provide you with the most effective solutions to suit your needs. Whether you provide electric, water, wastewater, telecommunications, gas or solid waste services, we’re ready to partner with you.