Before you can manage energy
costs, you have to know what they are! Energy accounting provides feedback
on how much energy your organization uses,
and how much it costs. It also provides a means to effectively communicate energy data that facility staff, building occupants and managers can use to improve cost management. Energy accounting will help your organization:
Record and
attribute energy consumption and costs .
Energy costs depend on the amount consumed
and it’s price. In an organization with many
facilities, energy accounting makes it possible
to compare energy use and cost among
facilities and to monitor how energy use changes
over time. By communicating this
information, those responsible for managing
energy costs -- maintenance staff, site
managers, or others -- can get feedback on
how they are doing.
Utility captain has wide variety of
reports with graphs to achieve the same.
You can group your buildings to
summarize your reports at cost center or
regional level. You can then drill down to go
upto the individual meter level.
Utility Captain goes one step further
and allows you to do bill archiving. You can
keep information at your fingertips. See any utility bill, anywhere,
anytime.
By consistently tracking energy use, you can
identify problems. A sudden unexplained increase
in consumption, for instance, means it’s time to
investigate the site for the cause. Billing
errors can be caught, too.
Data integrity reports in Utility
Captain allows you to do just the same. By
comparing this month's consumption with last
year or base year, utility captain will
highlight suspected problems.
It has wide variety of checks to make
sure you are not being over charged for things
like power factor, load factor,
etc.
Benchmark your
buildings to prioritize energy capital
investments
Find out which facilities have the highest
energy costs, and consider targeting them for
energy retrofits or other energy management
efforts.
Utility captain converts all energy
usage to common unit(BTU) and allow you to
find out the top 10 worst building in terms of
energy index(BTU/sqft) or other factors like
energy cost/sqft etc.
Did you save what you thought you would from
your energy management efforts? How did the
actual dollar savings from your lighting or HVAC
retrofit compare to the savings predicted by
your vendor or contractor? Without energy
accounting, it’s virtually impossible to answer
these questions. Once you determine the results
of energy management activities, it’s important
to communicate this information to decision
makers and implementers who were
responsible for the activities. Energy
accounting reports and graphs are the
tools for this important feedback.
Cost savings reports in Utility
Captain compares selected year with base year
and shows monthly and YTD savings.
Create incentives for energy management.
It’s often difficult to get anyone in an
organization to take the time and responsibility
required for carrying out energy management
activities because there is little incentive to
take on the task. A maintenance director or site
manager may not see much benefit in reducing
energy costs if all of the savings revert to the
general fund, or if lower energy bills only
result in smaller allocations for utility costs
in next year’s budget.
To remedy this "disconnect" between
responsibility and benefits, many organizations
have created incentives for energy cost
management by sharing energy savings. Energy
accounting makes it possible to set quantifiable
energy cost reduction goals. One city plans to
reward the facilities team by using realized
energy savings to augment the facility
management budget for the next year. This way,
those responsible for cost-cutting measures reap
the benefits. Many school districts have shared
savings with individual schools that cut costs
through student energy patrols or other
"behavioral" energy management
activities.
Utility costs are probably the most
unpridictable part of your budget. Labor
and production cost are easy to forecast
but weather change and utility rate increase can
result in unplanned expenditure of
thousands of dollars. Energy accounting gives a
historical look at costs that will help you
budget more realistically for the future.
Utility captain has wide variety of
reports to keep track of your utility cost on
month to month basis.
Position your organization
to shop for lower prices for energy in a
changing electricity
market.
The market for electricity is changing
rapidly due to regulatory reforms and increased
competition between electricity suppliers.
These changes parallel similar changes
that occurred as the natural gas industry was
deregulated, which resulted in significantly
lower prices for knowledgeable
consumers.
In order for your organization to take
advantage of the potential for lower electricity
prices, you will need to understand how
electricity is priced, and you will need to know
your "electric load profile." This means knowing
how much electricity your organization consumes
during different times of the day and different
seasons of the year. By setting up an energy
accounting system and understanding the details
of how energy is priced, you will be better
prepared to negotiate for the best electricity
deals in a changing market. If you are a
large user, you may be able to negotiate
directly with electricity producers in the
future.
If you are a small user, you may want to pool
with other consumers. An "aggregator"
may be able to help small users get a better
deal by pooling electricity purchases.
The more knowledge you have of your precise
electricity needs, the better chance you will
have of paying lower prices. Energy accounting
methods and software are likely to change
significantly to accomodate the changing
electricity market. Now is the time to
get in on the ground floor and develop expertise
in understanding your energy usage.
Provide reports to upper
management.
It is very
important to involve your senior
management
in your energy
management program. You can impress your
management with up-to-date energy accounting
reports.
Reports summarized at
cost center and regional level gives a single-page
look at monthly and year-to-date costs,
consumption, performance percentages, and cost
savings. You can then drill down to go upto
the individual meter
level.
No need to buy
any software. No installation
needed. Since Utility Captain is hosted at our
premise we take care of all the headaches of
managing, upgrading, backing up and to keep the
system running. ALL YOU NEED is a
PC with internet connection.
Utility Captain is an
on-line system so you can access this system
from anywhere, anytime.
We are offerening a 60 days free
trial period .
After that also, our services are 100%
satisfaction guaranteed. If you are not
satisfied, we will give you full
refund.
We are very exicted to offer you "Utility Captain" with features
that will make all of this possible and
still fit well within your budget.
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