Interactive Energy Management Software
ENERGY TRACKER PRO
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ENERGY TRACKER PRO ⋮
The Solution to Utility Management
Energy Tracker Pro (ETP) is a state-of-the-art, cloud-based energy tracking system developed and exclusively delivered by United Energy Consultants to manage utility costs and consumption.
It serves as our central management tool to analyze data, group accounts, service and advise users on the performance of their contracts, budgets and energy consumption. Whether managing a single facility or hundreds of facilities across the country, ETP provides an array of property information which includes annual budgets, daily re-projections, year-end forecasts, accruals, budget tracking, charts and reports, as well as savings analyses. Additionally, a minimum of two years of data history is maintained online at all times, providing the ability to compare costs and consumption in various views.
Access your information on all devices
The Importance of Managing Data
You can’t manage what you can’t track. ETP provides the integration of utility operations, finance, procurement and accounting efforts into an easy-to-use interface. Users will receive system generated updates advising of changing market conditions and their impact on users’ budgets and expenses. Email alerts are generated to notify users of any utility variances, so that appropriate action may be taken, robust tracking system, combined with effective commodity procurement, results in greater control of overall expenses and enhanced data management.
Saves Staff Time
Ensures Accurate Data
Reduces Utility Errors
Offers On Demand Reporting
Optimizes Deregulated Purchasing
Provides Analysis at Your Fingertips
Issues Proactive Utility Alarms
Consolidates Utility Processes
BACK-END FEATURES
Deployment and Development
Cloud-based solutions with flexibility to intergrate with multiple systems.
With Energy Tracker Pro, there is no need for internal technical staff or infrastructure, as everything is hosted in the cloud. The greatest challenge with a comprehensive utility management portal is integrating with both the supplier and utility company to provide users with a complete view of their usage and costs.
However, UEC has elegantly solved this complex problem by developing this process to integrate directly with most suppliers and utility companies, as well as providing an advanced data acquisition process for those utilities which are not automated.
Suppliers send current rates to ETP on a scheduled basis
Using Data Capture, ETP can import customer invoices from the utility company
Web-based interface works on desktop, tablets or smartphones
Security & Access
Flexible and unlimited access to ETP for your customers
You can set up user access to ETP to allow that user a view based on portfolio, property or building. In addition, there are several permission levels, including “read only” to set access, accounts payable and admin status which allow users to set alerts and establish budgets within ETP. Our secure servers keep user data private and only accessible to authorized users. With an unlimited number of user logins available, ETP can be scaled to handle any size portfolio.
Strong passwords required and established by system on setup
All requests are made using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections
Hierarchal levels of user access
Unlimited number of user accounts and unlimited simultaneous users
Organizational Structure
Database hierarchy to support your business model.
ETP stores individual meter invoices to provide users a very granular level of detail. The database hierarchy groups these meters into properties, buildings and utility types to offer the user multiple ways of viewing utility data.
Data stored at meter / account number level
Meters can be grouped by building, portfolio or properties
ETP can even be used to track contracts from other utility types, including water and sewer
FRONT-END FEATURES
Pricing and Usage in Real-Time
UEC will integrate with utility companies or customer meters to acquire interval real-time usage and demand data. This data can be merged with contractual real-time pricing or market-based trading to create budget projections and invoice audits.
The data is stored on secure servers, while the feed remains in ETP’s real-time atmosphere. Data may be scrubbed, and alarms set to provide pricing alerts, usage anomalies and demand spikes, as well as any other critical real-time metric.
Dashboard
Allows customers to see a high overview of usage analytics
Reporting
Build, Customize and download charts and reports
Energy Tracker Pro houses a section dedicated to building customized reports called Report Builder. This function allows the user to define a date range, preset analytics, compile raw data, or any combination thereof and to export the data to various formats, including PDF, Excel and CSV. Those customized reports may be saved as “favorites” and recalled at a later date with new data and analytics factored into the format.
UEC can create various reports that help analyze usage inefficiencies
ETP presents data in an Infographic view, with an emphasis on icons, charts, and interactive displays. Customized reports can be created with both data, analysis and a graphic representation of the data.
The alarms section of ETP creates a variance email which compares the budgeted usage, demand and costs to the actual usage, demand and costs; users are then notified of any variance down to the meter level. The alarms can be expanded to year over year analysis or property to property.
Energy efficiency projects may be tracked with the Demand section as well as within Report Builder and Chart Builder. The specific implementation date will produce pre and post project performance, along with consideration for market pricing, utility rate changes and new deregulated contracts.
Bill Tracking
Accurate and timely acquisition of customer data
Whether for natural gas or electricity UEC has developed processes to acquire raw data on usage, demand and granular monthly costs. The process varies from utility to utility and supplier to supplier, but the result is the automated and timely acquisition of critical data for calculating budgets and forecasting financial projections. The raw data (usage and costs) may be analyzed and reported in various established reports or in a customized user experience.
Budgets and Forecasting utilize collected utility and supplier data and utilize that information for projected utility costs, projected supplier costs, trend consumption models, market trading and other variables. All of the variables involve granular data captures such as NYMEX hedges, block and index electric contracts, load shaped electric purchases and various other variations of a fixed priced contract.
Within the alarm section of ETP, the user can set alarms based on contract expiration (date), specific NYMEX trigger (weighted average cost of gas) or specific budget triggers (inclusive of deregulated contract and utility costs). These email alerts will spark action on behalf of the user, rep and company to execute transactions on existing contracts and/or renewal contracts.
Track any utility type including for electric and natural gas
Use ETP alarms to be notified when a contract is set to expire
Displays actual usage and costs, including supply costs
Determine savings by comparing deregulated cost versus supply cost
Budgeting & Forecasting
Create accurate and easy to manage annual budgets
The raw data, collected through the supplier and utility processes, is categorized into calendar buckets and defaulted to either the cash or accrual views in the system. The cash view, an accounting perspective, logs the usage and expense associated with the meter read end date and when the invoice is captured on the books. The accrual view, an operational perspective, will prorate the usage and pro-rate expenses across the meter read period and associate the applicable amounts to the months in which the usage was likely to have occurred.
Normalization is a significant functionality within Energy Tracker Pro and there are various methods in which usage and expense are explained to the user. Weather normalization creates a standard year based on 30 year averages of heating and cooling degree days and compares actual results against the baseline. The analysis also accounts for rate normalization, which will explain expense spikes associated with a change in deregulated contract rate and/or utility rate schedules. These analysis periods may be defined and the granular data will normalize within the applicable range and provide results.
ETP has embedded functionality which analyzes weather sensitive and baseload usage, which can be normalized to create a purchasing profile. The functionality allows the user to increase a projected profile by increasing and/or decreasing heating degree days, cooling degree days, baseload usage or full operational usage.
Project Tracking
Track energy supply contracts & management projects
The optimal application of ETP provides financial knowledge which promotes management of utilities as one would manage other business assets and encourages proactive changes to the site. This has prompted customers to institute improvements such as new HVAC systems, cogeneration units, green projects, lighting retrofits and other installations. Back end ETP service measures and verifies the success of these projects through monthly savings statements. The savings are customized reports which factor in weather, utility rates, deregulated supply contracts, and expense reduction across all utilities. Many ancillary impacts are also factors, including improving load factor for commodity purchasing, reducing ICAP and/ or capacity assignment, qualifying for demand response or curtailment services, and various other secondary benefits.
ETP houses all deregulated contract activity as a critical component of future expense projections. All components are logged at the contract level (fixed, basis, variable, hedges, index…) as well as at the invoicing level, including commodity, swing, balancing, taxes and many others. The supply contracts may be tracked, and alarms set by expiration date, trigger market pricing and/or overall budget triggers.
Extra Features
Responsive Design
Access all your information on all devices
ETP is a state-of-the-art web-based application, which provides customized experiences, based on the device customers use to log in.
Alarms / Notifications
Alerts and notifications to keep you updated with your account activity.
Administrators may set up several alarms to notify customers of various conditions. Available alarms include variance in usage for each utility, an estimated read notification, upcoming contract expiration dates ad NYMEX price and budget alarms for natural gas customers.
Prices download after the close of the market each day
Receive alerts via email, text or ETP notifications
Projections calculated periodically throughout the day
Benchmarking
Comply with city laws by aggregating data used for reporting.
Energy Tracker Pro assists in the management of the benchmarking process by detailing, per property, standard metrics for energy usage that can be used in measuring and tracking energy efficiency projects. ETP displays usage and cost per square foot and per unit, and the gathered statistics can be compared to other properties in the portfolio as well as the portfolio averages or groups of similar property types.
Track and compare energy use to portfolios and properties of similar building types
Demand Analysis
Calculation of energy use divided by square feet
When benchmarking a property, one key factor involved is Energy Use Intensity. The EUI (energy use divided by square feet), is a calculation used to determine how a property compares to other properties with similar building types. ETP calculates Energy Use Intensity for each property and makes a comparison with other properties.
Customizations available to convert to and use any standard preferred
Invoicing / Data Capture
Download your customers’ utility invoices while you sleep
ETP integrates with several utility companies, to automatically download user invoices and import the invoice data into the ETP database. This allows you to address accounts with problems or issues, rather than focusing on data entry.
Nightly, automated processing
Screen scraping reduces errors
All invoice information is available in ETP