Your EnergyCAP HealthCheckup

Steve Heinz, PE, CEMFounder & CEOEnergyCAP, Inc.

©2016 EnergyCAP, Inc.

Dyspepsia

Bad utility bill data is giving me indigestion.I need audits and check reports.

The most important step is to use audits!

This recommended group of Quick Check Audits will catch the most obvious keying errors. You can make them more sensitive.

Use AN27 on each batch, on all bills created last week, or on all bills in last month’s billing period to ‘eyeball’ possible errors. The yellow star denotes the bill being checked; it’s always on far right.

AN01 and AN02, or the Calendarized versions CAL06 and CAL07, are great quick checks for historical data. Run once per commodity.

Try the new NORM11 to quickly see deviations from same month last year and same month baseline year.

Diplopia

I’m seeing double due to mixed units of measure. I need to use the UOM fixer.

One meter has two different UOM in history. This can affect reports, cost avoidance, audits, budgets, accruals and interfaces.

Administration – Units of Measure – Mixed UOM shows discrepancies and gives you an easy way to fix them.

A fixed bill record looks like this. In this case the user keyed originally as CF, then used the fixer to change to Gal, then used it again to change to CCF. All prior values are documented.

Scintillating visual aura

I’d like to see stars. ENERGY STARs, that is. I have to set it up soon.

ENERGY STAR setup is done in Buildings & Meters. Highlight a building, click edit, and then add the ENERGY STAR data.

Use Bill Processing – ENERGY STAR to periodically Submit to Portfolio Manager.

Plantar Fasciitis

My feet ache because I’m carrying abnormal load…factor. Report AN12 will spot it.

Load Factor: Ratio of actual kWh usage to maximum theoretical kWh usage

Actual usage – from the utility bill

Max theoretical usage = Maximum kW demand x hours in billing period

This is what you could have used if running at max power for the entire month

Example: Peak demand = 100 kW (the “all on” condition)Billing period = 30 days = 720 hoursMax theoretical usage = 100 kW x 720 hrs =

72,000 kWhBilled usage = 40,000 kWh

Load Factor = 40,000/72,000 = 0.56 = 56%

Normal load factor: 40% - 60% (Schools, offices, “9 to 5” facilities)

Low load factor: Your usage is very “spikey.” Some high peaks but typical usage is low.

Examples: Outdoor recreation (under 15%)Standby fire pumps (under 5%)Storm water ejector pumps (under 5%)Meter or billing error

High load factor: Your usage is very constant. (Utility companies like this and often offer high load factor discounted rates. Be sure you take advantage!)

Examples: Data center (80 – 95%)24/7 lighted parking deck (85 – 95%)Refrigerated warehouse (70 – 90%)Supermarket (70 – 85%)24/7 facility (50 – 75%)Meter or billing error (over 100%)

Low Load Factor – It must be outdoor recreation, standby pumps, or data error.

High Load Factor – Over 100% is impossible (except with some Billed Demand ratchet rates); these are data errors.

Load Factor is shown in chart form for each meter in Buildings & Meters – Actual Data – Demand

Social Anxiety Disorder

My buildings and meters need to join a peer group in Groups & Benchmarking.

Click on the parent category and then + to create a user-defined group. Yellow are manually maintained, purple are super-easy and convenient “auto” groups.

Arrhythmia

Some buildings have abnormal heartbeats. Smart CAPture interval data will spot it.

Quickly – weeks before receiving the electric bill – spot curious spikes, missing weekend and nighttime setbacks, unseen equipment cycling, too-early, too-late control settings and other money-saving insights. Smart CAPture lets you start capturing the savings before receiving the bill!

Missing prescriptions

I need Bill List treatments customized just for me.

Write your own prescription by creating Bill Lists!

So many features! Select columns, set filters, arrange column order, set sort order (even multi-layer), export your list and your columns to Excel, select and act on many at once, drill into individual bill records.

Rhytidectomy

My data needs a facelift. The update sheets in Setup Manager will make it easy.

Administration – Setup Manager - Update

Accounting Calendar

Accounts

Accounts User Defined Fields

Channels

Cost Avoidance Adjustments

Cost Centers

Customers

G/L

Meters

Meters User Defined Fields

Organizations & Buildings

Place User Defined Fields

Simple Bill Split Distributions

Simple Submeter Distributions

Users

Vendors

Vendors User Defined Fields

Separate Update spreadsheets for each of these types of data

Each Update spreadsheet shows existing data and lets you update (in white columns only) just what you need.

Biofeedback Therapy

My building managers want to know how they’re doing. CAL28 and YY19A are great new building reports.

CAL28 – Up to two complete years of monthly data for up to 4 commodities on one page per building. Excel friendly!

YY19A – Another nice report for Building Managers

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Ouch! I must be keying too many bills! Help me, Bill CAPture service!

You’ve heard all about Bill CAPture. If you key over 250 bills/month it’s worth a close look!

This slide deck is a great reference document. We’ll let you know when it’s on

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