Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- The Workplace- Energy and Culture
April 2, 2020Welcome to my blog series, #3 of 5, on Effective Energy Management from Home. If you haven’t read Blogs #1 & #2, I recommend you give them a quick read first.
You’re an Energy Manager working from home. Your buildings are mainly unoccupied and in shutdown mode, right? A bright side to the crisis is that you’re saving a lot of energy and water.
Topics: 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, 2020
In a recent EnergyCAP-hosted webinar, Casey Keyser, Senior Energy Manager, described how Oklahoma State University’s “culture of conservation” has produced energy savings in excess of $38 million over a 13-year period.
Topics: Energy Management- Client Savings- Energy and Culture
March 4, 2020
Costs associated with deficient processes and outdated technology are frustrating to any business owner or manager. Some of the most painful costs are those related to accounts payable processes.
Topics: Energy Management- Bill CAPture
February 11, 2020
Governor Tom Wolf announced January 9th that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania achieved “a three percent reduction in state government electricity, natural gas, and steam use” in the first year of its program to reduce carbon poll
Topics: Energy Management- Client Savings- Energy and Culture
January 22, 2020
Here (in no particular order) are 10 free energy newsletters to which you might want to subscribe:
Topics: Energy Management- Energy and Culture
November 14, 2019Our previous blog post—Best Practices in Campus Energy Information Management, Chargebacks, and Internal Billings—provided tips to help campus-based organizations obtain accurate, detailed energy information for individual facilities. It’s fitting, then, to follow up with a real-life application of those best practices.
Topics: Energy Management- Client Savings
November 13, 2019Does your university or campus-based organization struggle to obtain detailed energy information for individual buildings? Are you challenged by the complexity of internal energy use & cost allocations (a.k.a., chargebacks)?
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management
October 22, 2019
If you have an energy conservation project that’s waiting for funding, the U.S. Department of Energy may soon be able to help.
Topics: Energy Management- Client Savings- Energy and Culture
August 15, 2019Utility bill auditing and processing just got a whole lot easier.
On November 9, 2016, I published a blog article titled, “Improving Utility Bill Auditing.” The article addressed a comment that we hear time and time again during initial conversations with prospective customers: “We know we should check our utility bills more closely, but we don’t have a system in place to do that.” I then outlined how our EnergyCAP software-based solution helps organizations overcome the challenges of utility bill processing and bill validation before they are paid.
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management- Company News
July 31, 2019
Effective communication is a critical component of every energy management program. In a recent EnergyCAP-hosted webinar, James Bush, Program Manager of Energy Initiatives for Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG), described how EnergyCAP enables his staff to speak three languages: Facilities, Accounting, and Budgeting.
Topics: Energy Management- Company News
June 27, 2019
Bithgroup Technologies, a consulting firm based in Baltimore, MD, has used EnergyCAP as the foundation of their Energy Information Services operation since 2007. They have processed hundreds of thousands of utility bills through the application. Corey Culbreath, Bithgroup’s hands-on Director of Energy Information Services, recently shared how he identified a major client billing problem without having to run a single EnergyCAP report.
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management
May 3, 2019So much data, so little time. An all-too-common scenario for energy managers.
Utility bills arrive like clockwork (you hope) every month by the dozens or hundreds. Each one contains numerous line items, providing useful details about facility energy consumption and cost. Ideally, that valuable information is being tracked in EnergyCAP, where it’s readily available for analysis.
Topics: Software Features- Energy Management
April 19, 2019
EnergyCAP, Inc. (ECI) recently surveyed large government and public institutions to determine what makes an Energy Management Information System (EMIS) successful over many years. Survey participants included a mix of city and county governments, federal agencies, and the largest U.S. higher education systems.
Topics: Energy Management- Energy and Culture
February 12, 2019On- and off-campus student housing facilities consume a lot of energy, and the cost of that energy directly impacts students, schools, and property owners. In a recent EnergyCAP-hosted webinar, Melissa Kline, Founder of environmental consulting firm IMPACTenergy, described the process her firm uses to achieve energy savings in student housing.
Topics: Energy Management- Energy and Culture
January 29, 2019While the most easily quantifiable benefit of EnergyCAP’s utility bill accounting and energy management software might be its ability to help an organization save money, some of its other advantages are best explained anecdotally.
Topics: Energy Management- Client Savings
January 8, 2019
Can a wearable device generate its own power? Will we see a time when gas stations are scarce? What is a microgrid?
Topics: Energy Management- Energy and Culture
November 14, 2018
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it will soon be updating performance metrics in its Portfolio Manager application, and per the EPA, “1–100 ENERGY STAR scores and other performance metrics will, on average, go down.”
Topics: Energy Management- Energy and Culture
August 3, 2018
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