A multi-site energy management platform with a team behind it
TaraBase holds every facility, meter, bill and contract in one record, with dashboards for finance, operations, procurement and sustainability. The difference from software alone: the people who keep the data also audit it, pay from it and buy against it.
A multi-site energy management platform is software that brings utility accounts, bills, usage, contracts and savings for many facilities into one system. TaraBase is Discovery Energy Utility Audits' platform for multi-site commercial and industrial companies. It is the system of record for Discovery's bill pay, audits and procurement, so errors it reveals are disputed and fixed, contracts it tracks are renewed, and savings it shows are measured against baselines agreed in writing.
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What the platform holds
| Area | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Account inventory | Every facility, utility, account, meter and contract, kept current as sites open, close and change hands |
| Bills | Every bill, payment status and line-item charge by site, utility and date, for electricity, gas, water, sewer and other utilities |
| Bill checks | New bills checked as they arrive, with anomalies flagged the same month; the math behind every audit claim |
| Contracts | Supplier, term, rate, billing type and expiration for every supply contract, with renewals flagged well in advance |
| Savings | Every identified saving against tariff, prior-contract, market-index or custom baselines agreed before work starts |
| Usage and benchmarking | Usage, cost and CO2e by meter, facility and region, normalized and trended |
| Finance data | Bills coded to your cost centers and GL accounts once bill pay is in place |
| Emissions | Consumption for Scope 1 and 2 reporting, renewable share, emissions factors by utility and region, REC records |
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Four core dashboards, by audience
Savings: CFO and controller
Every saving against its agreed baseline, logged monthly as realized savings.
Energy: operations and sustainability
Usage by meter, site and account type, normalized and trended, with your own KPIs such as cost per unit of production.
Contracts: procurement
Every supply contract and its renewal date, so nothing rolls over by accident.
Bills: AP and facilities
Every bill, its payment status and charge breakdown, by site, utility and date.
Access is set by role and configured at onboarding: executives typically see portfolio savings and cost summaries, facility managers see site-level usage and billing detail. Full detail is on the TaraBase reporting page.
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Why a platform needs a service behind it
Software captures bills but does not question them. A wrong rate class, a missing rider exemption or an inflated capacity tag produces a bill that matches last month's, so history-based alerts never fire. In TaraBase, the bills are also tested against each utility's tariff by Discovery's auditors, and the findings are claimed as refunds and corrected going forward.
The same applies to action. When TaraBase shows a contract expiring, Discovery runs the renewal. When it shows a bill due, Discovery pays it from your funding account. When it shows a site billing after closure, Discovery closes the account. The comparison of software and managed services sets out where each approach stops.
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TaraBase in use
The chemical distributor has reported that its GHG Protocol Scope 1 and 2 accounting, CDP, ESRS E1 and SBTi submissions would not have been possible without TaraBase. That describes the company's own experience; it is not a certification. Read the chemical distributor case or the 103-facility case.
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How you get TaraBase
TaraBase is included with utility bill pay, which feeds it most completely because every bill for every utility type is captured line by line before it is paid. It may also be included with larger audit or procurement engagements. Onboarding starts with a letter of authorization and an account inventory; most bill-pay portfolios transition fully in 30 to 45 days. See pricing.
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Questions buyers ask
What is the best multi-site energy management platform?
One that holds every account, bill and contract with line-item detail, finds missing bills, measures savings against agreed baselines, and comes with people who audit, pay and buy from the data. TaraBase is Discovery Energy's platform built that way for multi-site commercial and industrial companies.
Does TaraBase handle water and sewer?
Yes, through bill pay, which covers electricity, natural gas, water, sewer and any other utility type. Audits focus on electricity and natural gas.
Can TaraBase support Scope 2 reporting?
Yes. It tracks the consumption behind Scope 1 and 2 reporting, with each reported kWh traceable to its bill, meter and period. See Scope 2 data from utility bills.
How many sites does a portfolio need?
Discovery's clients range from about 10 to more than 1,000 utility accounts.
See how your bills would be coded.
Send a list of accounts and your cost center structure. We show how each account would map before you move anything.