Energy Usage Data System

Kevin Bricknell Energy Data Services

Program Manager

EEB Hub Regional Data Management Working Group Meeting

Thursday, October 25, 2012

ComEd:

Ø 3.8 Million Electric Customers in Chicago/Northern IL

Ø 350,000 Business Customers

Energy Data Services: ü Energy Insights Online (EIO) - Web Based Energy

Consumption Tracking ü Energy Usage Data System (EUDS) ü Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Where Smart Ideas Started . . . ü  Provides incentives for energy

efficiency upgrades and equipment

ü  Part of Illinois energy legislation passed in 2007

ü  Program implemented by ComEd, Ameren Illinois and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)

ü  Now in fifth year of program

ü  Ratepayer funded program

0200,000400,000600,000800,000

1,000,000

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Smart Ideas Energy Efficiency Goals (MWh)

What is Smart Ideas for Your Business? •  Incentives for energy efficiency upgrades and

equipment

•  Programs •  Retro-Commissioning •  Prescriptive and custom incentives •  Lighting rebates •  New Construction

•  Data Services •  Whole building energy data (EUDS) •  Energy Insights Online (EIO)

•  Opportunity Assessments

Drivers to Customer Benchmarking: “Gateway” to Energy Efficiency

1)  Commission Requirements / Market Transformation

2)  Billing System - CIMS - Windows Based

3)  Metering Practices in Service Territory: Master metering versus metering & billing of tenants

-- ComEd compared to PECO -- ComEd has buildings with 100+ billed tenants

Energy Usage Data System (EUDS)

ü  Enter your Portfolio of Commercial Buildings

ü  Automated End to End Data

Retrieval and Reporting ü  Export Usage Data for input

into Portfolio Manager ü  Secure System and Data

Transmission

Partnership with:

IT Contractors- On Site at ComEd •  Energy Industry Consultants with Hardware/Software expertise •  Begin March ‘08, Completed by June ‘08, Rollout October ’08 •  Automated Benchmarking Enhancement added July 2009

ü Requirements captured from all key stakeholders ü LCS Account Managers

ü Marketing

ü IT (ComEd)

ü EPA

ü Customer (Building Mgr)

ü Customer Service Reps

ü Billing

ü Legal

Functionality Overview

ü One Time and Recurring Data Requests

ü Tenant Verification

ü Whole Building Data Usage Totals per Month (kWh)

ü Automatically submit energy usage data to Portfolio Manager (ABS)

Login Screen:

Add Building:

Add Request:

Verify Tenants:

Data Returned -- Submit to ENERGY STAR

Before (Manual Process)

•  Cost to Customer •  Cycle Time 10-12 Days •  Labor Intensive •  Limited Number of

Requests •  Data Provided Quarterly

and/or Annually •  Customer contacts

ComEd to obtain data

After (Automated Process)

•  No Cost to Customer •  Cycle Time 1-2 Days •  Completely Automated •  Unlimited Number of

Requests •  Monthly Data •  Customer empowered to

obtain data whenever needed

EUDS Results:

Manual Buildings (<June 2008) vs Automated Buildings (>June 2008)

582 Building Managers Currently Using EUDS

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EUDS Results:

Manual Buildings (<June 2008) vs Automated Buildings (>June 2008)

Over 25,000 months of data requests since June 2008

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Thank You!

Kevin Bricknell, EDS Program Manager (630) 437-3118

kevin.bricknell@ComEd.com