The UtCS Objective: a guaranteed, lasting drop in your monthly bill
Our single goal is simple — a sustainable reduction in what your household pays for electricity every month, and one that holds up over the long term. The benchmark is always the same question: what would you have paid if every single kWh came from CEB?
The promise in one sentence
UtCS designs energy systems so that your all-in monthly cost stays lower than your old CEB bill — not just for one lucky sunny month, but predictably, month after month, for years.
The benchmark: “100% CEB”
To know if you are truly saving, we compare everything against a clear baseline — the cost if you bought every kWh from the grid at CEB's domestic tariff. In our illustrative 4-bedroom home using 530 kWh in a month, that baseline is:
Home use (example)
530 kWh
per month
If 100% bought from CEB
Rs 3,821
domestic tariff energy charge
Our target
Lower
every month, guaranteed
Tariff 140 domestic blocks, June 2026 illustrative bill period.
Sustainable, not seasonal
A single low bill is easy. A reduction you can count on every month — through cloudy weeks, holidays and tariff changes — is what we engineer for. Sustainability means the saving survives real life.
Removing the variables we can't control
Grid-tied savings depend on CEB credit rates, CST, export caps and tariff blocks — none of which UtCS sets. A guarantee is only honest when the variables behind it are inside our control.
Two kinds of “guarantee”
The cleanest route is removing the CEB bill line entirely — only possible when the home no longer imports or exports through CEB (off-grid).
A guaranteed total monthly cost is possible only when the UtCS service, finance and maintenance charge is lower than the CEB bill you avoid.
In plain words:over the next chapters we'll show exactly how Gross Metering, Net Metering and Off-Grid each perform against the “100% CEB” benchmark — so you can see where a long-term guaranteed saving genuinely comes from.