Utility Consulting

Service Overview
Our utility specialists provide comprehensive consulting services so that you can structure the financial resources to meet the needs of your community.

What We Do
Crowe Chizek's utility specialists create value by providing the highest quality rate structure and revenue enhancement consulting, financial consulting and debt issuance assistance to municipal, not-for-profit, for-profit and governmental utilities.

Principal Services

• Revenue sufficiency reviews are conducted based on an analysis of pro forma revenues and expenses as determined by a review of historical financial information or engineering estimates.
  
  
• Cost of service studies are implemented to design rates and charges to collect the appropriate level of revenue from each class of customer based on an analysis of cost causation.
  
  
• Operations reviews are held to determine if other user fees or non-recurring charges can be established to supplement revenues or identify areas of efficiency to reduce expenses.
  
  
• Analysis of impact or capacity fees or other capital charges designed to aid in financing capital improvements and additions.
  
  
• Calculate fuel cost adjustments, wholesale trackers or other flow-through types of charges.
  
  
• Provide representation before federal, state or local regulatory agencies, courts, boards and councils.

How You Benefit
Crowe Chizek's commitment to you as experienced independent consultants is to be your guiding hand delivering solutions that are uniquely yours. We provide the highest standards of professionalism, pursue all available means of funding, and secure the best terms and conditions the market will bear – ultimately reducing your total project costs. We use our four decades of experience in public finance to deliver high quality, thorough and responsive service at a reasonable fee.