Whether you manage electric distribution, water infrastructure, or both, storm invoices arrive faster than any team can scrutinize them in the moment. The regulatory cost recovery process demands accuracy on every one of them. And the opportunity to protect your rate case starts before the storm arrives.
This report draws on more than 25,000 invoices and $4.4 billion in reviewed storm charges across six engagements to show where errors concentrate and what to do about them before the next storm makes landfall.
The headline finding: over more than a decade of storm invoice review at regulated utilities, 75% of storm contractor invoices contain errors.
That is not a projection. It is an aggregate finding from real-time and forensic reviews conducted during and after hurricanes, ice storms, and other major weather events at utilities across the Gulf Coast and Southeastern United States.