Free Energy Manager Tools

Steve Heinz, PE, CEM

Founder & CEO

EnergyCAP, Inc.

Presented by EnergyCAP, Inc.Thirty-year industry leader; first release in 1982. (The predecessor software was FASER Energy Accounting).

Web-based and on-premise versions.

Financially secure. No debt. No VC funds.

Used by organizations that receive many utility bills for bill processing, energy reporting and analytics.

Five years running

City Government (San Francisco, Baltimore, Sacramento, Virginia Beach, Tampa, Denver, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Cleveland)

County Government (Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara CA; Loudoun, Fairfax, Chesterfield VA; Miami Dade, Charlotte FL)

Federal (USMC, Smithsonian, U.S. Dept of Energy Labs)

Commercial (Ryder, Equity Residential, Forest City, BJs Wholesale Clubs, Burlington Coat Factory)

Education (800+ school districts, SUNY system, Univ of CA system, UCF, Univ of Kansas)

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10 valuable, and free,online tools

1. Energy UniversityAn offering of Schneider Electric

All courses are free and typically take less than an hour

Endorsement and/or education credits are offered by many organizations including: AFE, USGBC, BOMI, IEEE and many state PE licensing boards

Dozens of courses, available in multiple languages

Self-paced, online, narrated, illustrated slideshows

Free Professional Energy Manager certification

1. Energy University

2. Weather Data DepotAn offering of EnergyCAP, Inc.

Free daily degree days for 14,000 sites in North America

Updated daily; historical data from 1995

Excel interface

Variable balance point temperature

Search by ZIP code, station ID or city/state

Degree day reports, cumulative HDD/CDD comparison charts, 14-day DD forecast

2. Weather Data Depot

3. DOE Software Tools DirectoryAn offering of U.S. Dept of Energy, EERE

Includes 400 software tools for “evaluating energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability in buildings.”

Some are free tools, most aren’t

3. DOE Software Tools Directory

4. NoesisAn offering of Noesis Energy

Provides end users with tools to track and improve energy

Provides end users with a collaborative platform to connect them with the people, companies and organizations that can help them make the right decisions to begin realizing savings

Most basic functionality is free

A “go to” site for energy managers

4. Noesis

5. DOE Energy Information Administration

An offering of U.S. Dept of Energy–U.S. Energy Information Administration

Official statistics on national energy consumption

End-use sectors: residential, commercial, manufacturing, transportation

Projections in Energy Outlook documents

Underlying data is public. Downloadable in pdf, Excel

5. DOE Energy Information Administration

6. Online Unit ConversionsAn offering of OnlineConversion.com (probably one guy

working out of his garage)

Quite a complete choice of From/To units of measure

6. Online Unit Conversions

7. Building Benchmarks (CBECS)An offering of EnergyCAP, Inc

Makes CBECS data easy to use

CBECS is the U.S. Dept of Energy’s Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, the database that’s the foundation of ENERGY STAR ratings.

Provides the national ‘standards’ for BTU/Sq Ft

7. Building Benchmarks (CBECS)

8. EPA eGRID and Carbon Equivalencies

An offering of U.S. EPA

“Power Profiler” shows how clean your electricity is, based on Zip code and eGRID emissions database

“Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator” shows carbon equivalencies, useful for presentations and marketing.

9. Open Energy Info–DOE Rate Repository

An offering of U.S. Dept of Energy

Free utility rate repository

29,000+ rates from almost 4,000 vendors

Searchable by ZIP code

Available API allows you to grab the underlying data via a web service

Library of energy apps is included

10. Enterprise Smart GridAn offering of Groom Energy Solutions LLC

Collaborative site covering the latest demand side smart grid news

They do a good job in keeping current with what’s going on in the industry

Resources include case studies, white papers

Groom publishes a Software Buyer’s Guide

10. Enterprise Smart Grid

Free Newsletters We RecommendGroom Energy www.GroomEnergy.com

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Energy Manager Today www.EnergyManagerToday.com

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