BPA Energy Efficiency Tracking System (BEETS)

How does the invoicing process work in BEETS?

Customers will submit applications to claim each measure. BPA will then perform compliance review and oversight (if applicable). Once approved, customers can invoice applications in BEETS by grouping multiple applications together and at their convenience.

How does the timing of payments work in BEETS?
Payment is based on when customers invoice their approved applications. After an application is submitted for payment, the customer can expect reimbursement in 10 business days. BPA’s goal is to review and pay applications in under 30 days per the terms outlined in the ECA.

What are the changes, if any, to the performance payment process?
Customers will earn a performance payment on each approved application in BEETS based on the kWh savings and the payment rate per the customer’s small, rural, residential (SRR) status. These Available Earned Performance Payments are held in a ‘bank’ until the customer is ready to claim them. Customers will then ‘opt in’ to claim the available Performance Payment balance at any time before the end of the rate period provided that the earned balance does not exceed the customer’s Performance Payment Cap.

In BEETS, a customer’s total rate period implementation budget is distributed into separate EEI Payment and Performance Payment budget amounts. If desired, customers can re-allocate funds between these two individual budgets at any time. Please contact your Energy Conservation Account Executive (ECAE) to facilitate this. When a customer is ready to receive a performance payment, they submit a separate Performance Payment invoice in the system. If there is sufficient funding in the Performance Payment budget and the requested invoice amount does not cause the total invoiced to exceed the rate period cap, the invoice will be processed immediately and paid in 10 business days.