Consider all potential scenarios and establish the rates you require with Ellio Financial—a highly effective, cloud-based financial planning module designed to help utilities address financial and rate-setting challenges. This tool provides features that enable you to better understand the impact of your capital programs and rates, ensuring that you make informed decisions tailored to the unique needs of your community.


Designed by Raftelis experts for water, wastewater, stormwater, and electric utilities, our scenario builder offers the opportunity to model a wide range of situations and consider their impacts. Ellio Financial is designed to help you better understand the impacts on affordability and rates, and better serve your customers with that knowledge.

The integrated scenario builder and dashboards allow users to simultaneously compare the financial impacts of multiple variables, including rate adjustments, customer growth, borrowing costs, capital projects, and more.

Ellio’s organization-based subscription model simplifies team collaboration for as many users as you need, without the need for per-seat licenses. Your subscription comes with unlimited users and customizable access permissions for each.
Will Ellio Financial save me time?
Ellio Financial is designed to be user-friendly and easy to set up. Compatible with Excel, it’s easy to import and set up your current models in Ellio. From there, it offers dashboarding tools to help you analyze information more efficiently and scenario builders that allow you to run several scenarios much more easily than you would in Excel. Additionally, Ellio is web-based, making enterprise-wide collaboration simple.
Is Ellio Financial a self-service platform? What happens if I need help with a model?
Raftelis experts have custom-built Ellio Financial, considering the questions and challenges we’ve faced while working with over 1,000 utilities across the country, ensuring you can use the tool yourself or understand the tool we use to assist you. There are two ways to leverage Ellio:
As a self-service platform with a few hours of consulting time built into the beginning of your experience, this helps ensure all your data is entered correctly and you have the foundation you need to use this tool successfully.
As a tool that includes consulting services, we have a tiered pricing structure to ensure you receive the support you need to use Ellio effectively. With this option, you’ll not only have access to Ellio Financial and its vast capabilities but also Raftelis’ financial experts.
How does an Ellio subscription work?
Ellio Financial is a subscription-based service that is billed annually. With that subscription, your entire team gains access to the organization’s Ellio account for seamless collaboration and on-the-go use.
Is Ellio customizable to my utility’s existing rate structure?
Ellio is flexible to nearly all types of rate structures commonly used in the water and wastewater industry, and Ellio Financial is customizable to fit your specific needs. Considering factors such as customer class, meter size, and tiered structure, this tool seamlessly integrates into your toolkit.
Can Ellio account for several capital projects?
Able to manage individual capital projects or overall programs and their funding sources, Ellio Financial will accommodate as many capital projects as you need.