From corporate America to the public sector, energy efficiency and sustainability is now a key imperative. Whether organizations are looking to meet government mandates or fulfill their own ca...

For the purposes of this primer, we’re assuming the following are your objectives: Obtain billing data for all facilities Audit the bills before they are paid Resolve any issues in a timely m...

Energy Benchmarking Helps Track Performance In this eBook, we introduce and explain four types of energy benchmarking and illustrate ways in which benchmarking can produce a rapid payba...

The Value of Interval Data Utility bill analysis makes sense for multiple reasons. First, utility bills are readily available, showing up like clockwork every month or quarter. No additional i...

How much money you will save depends on many factors: how well you are currently managing utility accounts; how much emphasis and resources senior management has applied (and will apply) to en...

ERP’s vary widely in functionality, and if you are looking to purchase an ERP for your organization, it’s important that you document your functional needs up front and ask appropriate questio...

What are Chargebacks? Chargebacks are also referred to as cost or usage allocations, re-billings, and/or distributions. All of the terms can refer to a process by which energy provided for an ...

What’s your view of electricity? Perhaps it’s similar to Dave Barry’s view. You know it exists. You know you use it. But you don’t really know how it all works behind the scenes. The Grid What...

Quantifying Weather Impact We are all aware that the weather affects energy consumption in a building. But to what degree? Can the weather impact be accurately quantified on a building-by-buil...

To an engineer, accruals are an accounting exercise that doesn’t really add anything to the energy management picture, so they can be hard to love. But for those in accounting departments and ...

Tip 1: Review Estimated Bills Why are bills estimated? Frankly, the primary reason is simply the convenience of the vendor. If the vendor estimates your bill every other month and reads it eve...

Commonly Available Bill Formats Paper bills are still the most common, but utility bills are typically available in other formats too, such as PDF, flat files (e.g., .xlsx, .csv, .txt), XML, a...