Budget woes? I sympathize. If you’re not Amazon or Zoom, your budget has probably taken a big hit. One bright spot may be your actual 2020 utilities spend vs. the budget.
Here’s an example of a large school district’s actual 12-month spend vs. prior years.
BPO – Business Process Outsourcing – has been on the rise for years. The outsourcing of back office services that are not core competencies of the organization, yet require high skill level, is particularly attractive.
Topics: The Workplace- Energy and Culture
October 27, 2020
EnergyCAP Version 7’s latest energy efficiency feature–email report self-subscription–is both simple and powerful. It’s like a “Note to Self” reminder to look for cost savings.
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- Energy and Culture
October 20, 2020Everyone whose job includes utility bill auditing and processing knows audit challenges all too well. The bane of analysts everywhere is false positives—audit results that point to a problem but after investigation are found to be groundless.
For almost 15 years, WeatherDataDepot.com has been the go-to site for degree day reports and historical data.
Topics: Energy Management- Company News
June 9, 2020
Chances are that your organization has a “Mission-Critical Contracts Plan” to ensure that mission essential contracts have been identified and that the vendors responsible for those mission essential products and services are following CDC and other applicable health and safety guidelines and precautions.
Topics: Energy Management- Company News
May 20, 2020Congratulations! Thanks to your effective energy management and building operations practices, you’ve achieved two months of “flatlining” your buildings. As proven by your smart meter data, effective shutdowns of high daily “occupied” electric loads have been flatlined, the only bumps being slightly higher nighttime security lighting loads.
Topics: Energy Management- Client Savings- Energy and Culture
May 5, 2020
It may be just the right time to put on your BudgetCAP.
In my last blog I showed how you can set expectations for a potential second quarter utilities budget surplus. In that real-world example,
Topics: Energy Management- Client Savings- The Workplace- Energy and Culture
April 28, 2020
Yes, very unfortunate budget cutbacks loom in the future, but for the next few months your utilities budget will be benefiting from an unexpected stimulus.
Welcome back to my blog series on Effective Energy Management from Home. If you haven’t read the five-blog series or last week’s wrap-up, give them a quick read first.
Welcome to the wrap-up of my blog series on Effective Energy Management from Home. If you haven’t read the five previous posts, give them a quick read first.
If you’ve kept up with the series and have had the time and EnergyCAP access ability
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- The Workplace- Energy and Culture
April 9, 2020Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- The Workplace- Energy and Culture
April 7, 2020Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- The Workplace- Energy and Culture
April 2, 2020Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- The Workplace- Energy and Culture
March 31, 2020
Welcome to my blog series, #2 of 5, on Effective Energy Management from Home. If you haven’t read blog #1, I recommend you give it a quick read first.
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- The Workplace- Energy and Culture
March 26, 2020
Hello friends and colleagues, and welcome to a new COVID-19 reality unimaginable only a few weeks ago. It is the sincere desire of everyone here at EnergyCAP that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy.
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- The Workplace
March 24, 2020Author and technology prophet George Gilder got me thinking when I read his recent book Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. In writing about Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the most influential and accomplished scientist ever, he describes Newton’s lifelong fascination with alchemy.
In a perfect world, all of your utility meters would trip their odometer readings at 12:00 a.m. on the first day of every calendar month, all your utility bills would reflect the energy you used for precisely that period, and all planes and trains would run on time. Your relationship with your energy data would be perfect, and you wouldn’t need dating rules!
Topics: Software Features
February 1, 2017
When I saw the green energy monitoring panel on the wall of my hotel room, I couldn’t believe my eyes. An energy monitoring panel here? I’d never seen anything like this! The building’s designers must have had some sustainability goal in mind, but drawing on my forty years of experience producing energy tracking software, all I could think was this is so…wrong!
Topics: Energy and Culture
November 2, 2016
An important aspect of energy management is the measurement and verification (M&V) of energy management initiatives, whether behavior/operational or hardware/retrofits. Besides the obvious need to verify savings when the contract is based on performance, M&V also provides valuable feedback to participants and senior management.
Topics: Software Features
September 10, 2015
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You’re an Energy Manager working from home. Your buildings are mainly unoccupied and in shutdown mode, right?