Monitoring and Assessment
Employ an Interactive Energy Management Tool
What Is It?
Energy management tools track consumption of individual buildings as well as portfolios of buildings and provide users with helpful information on how, where, and when energy is being used. An energy management tool can show energy usage trends over time and can compare energy use across several buildings, highlighting energy hogs and systems in need of repair, maintenance, or replacement.
Benefits
Using energy management tools can enable more a effective measurement of energy metrics, which allows a business to accurately determine the necessary changes in energy consumption and usage. Most energy management tools will be three-fold: Reporting, Monitoring, and Engagement. By using such a tool, a business is able to benchmark and track in real-time (either via Web application or on-site display) all of their energy metrics and needs.
NEWS
- “Beyond the Data: How to Succeed in Building Efficiency Analytics” Green Tech Media, March 5, 2014
- “Energy management software field gets crowded” CNET, November 17, 2010
- “Going Green: Enterprise Energy Management as a Service” CMS Wire, November 17, 2010
RESOURCES
- Capterra: List of Energy Management Software
- Noesis: Top 5 Energy Reporting Mistakes
A SAMPLE OF PROVIDERS
- Portfolio Manager (free EPA tool)
- FirstFuel
- Gridium
- EnerNOC
- Ecova
- SAPCarbon Impact On Demand
