Identifying Inefficienct Facilties via Benchmarking in EnergyCAP

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Analysis Track

Identifying Inefficient Facilities via BenchmarkingPresented by SJ Bergman, CEM, CMVP


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Benchmarking Fundamentals


Energy benchmarking

The process of collecting, analyzing and relating energy performance data of comparable activities with the purpose of evaluating and comparing performance between or within entities


Why benchmark your buildings?

Gives you a starting point

Identifies outliers (both good and poor performance)

Helps to set reasonable goals

Focus limited energy efficiency improvement dollars on where they will have the greatest impact


Benchmarking in EnergyCAP


Create peer groups

“Auto Groups”

System Defined

Customizable

User defined


Two basic types of peer groups

Place (Building) Groups

Meter Groups


Other uses for Groups

Reporting

Reports across hierarchy

Report filters

Ranking reports


Other uses for Groups

Bill list filters

Run bill audits by group


Auto Groups


Place Primary Use Auto-Group

Based on your definitions of Primary Use for each building in your database

Use the pre-populated options, or make your own primary use categories

These do not have to be the ENERGY STAR space types

Place Primary Use Auto-Groups


Place Primary Use Auto-Groups



Meter Auto-Groups

Commodity

Meter Primary Use

Vendor-Commodity

Vendor-Rate

Place and Meter Groups–User Defined


Ranking Options


Place Rankings–Cost/Area


Place Rankings–Cost/Area


Place Rankings–Use/Area


Place Rankings–Demand/Area


Place Rankings–Cost Rank



Place Ranking–Use Rank

Place Ranking–Use Rank



Place Ranking–HDD Sensitivity

Place Ranking–CDD Sensitivity



Group Manager

Have you been using Group Manager to spot problems?

Please! Make it a priority. You’ll be glad you did

Questions

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Technology

Identifying Inefficienct Facilties via Benchmarking in EnergyCAP