Optergy Questions and Answers

1. Measure Manage Reduce
Real Time Energy Management
Q&A

2. Ask yourself these questions…
Do you need to track and control Can you drill-down and trace Do you need to convey
energy-use in your facility? your information back to information to stakeholders
the raw data? and other audiences?
We are all aware of the growing pressure
from many sectors to reduce energy When an abnormal situation is detected, Having derived lots of information is a
use (and costs) and CO2 emissions. the root cause must be found. This will starting point, the challenge is to present
Optergy helps by recording all metered lie in the data being evaluated and often this information to the stakeholders who
energy use over successive 15 minute results from an equipment failure or a need it. The level of detail and technical
intervals. This allows you to see where human action such as plant inadvertently content depends on the audience, as
and when energy was used. Information left in manual override. does the preferred method of delivery.
about the energy source allows these Optergy can generate screen displays
data to be displayed as equivalent CO2 consisting of charts and tables, gauges
emissions. Can you forecast total energy
and other images. These screen displays
use to some future date? can be delivered as PDF documents
Just as in financial planning, it is or even spreadsheet files to meet the
Are your decisions based on needs of specific stakeholders. Through
important to know what your energy
good information? position is likely to be at some future large displays and touch-screen kiosks,
time. To maintain a building energy Optergy allows tenants and visitors to
The adage “you cannot manage what
performance rating this is critical. see, for example, the energy initiatives
you do not measure” certainly applies to
deployed in a building and to interact
energy management. Metering solutions Optergy provides an energy budget to gain more understanding and
give you masses of data but little system which allows you to track energy information.
information. The fuel gauge in your car against the budget and, using past
tells the fuel left in the tank (data) but performances and budget projections,
the trip computer, by incorporating estimate future cumulative energy use. Can you do all this on-line
other factors such as driving style, tells
and in real-time with a web
you how far you can travel before you
need to fill up. Information. Can you benchmark against connection?
Optergy has a number of tools to other facilities? Web users are accustomed to gaining
extract useful information from information at any time, from anywhere.
Comparison with similar facilities allows
masses of meter data. There is increasing use of cell phones
high or low performing sites to be
and other mobile web-connected devices.
identified. Sector-wide benchmarks are
Instant feedback has also been shown
commonly used to establish a reference
Can you compare current usage to be effective in reducing energy
point for energy performance rating
against past periods and other consumption.
systems.
facilities? Optergy delivers content over the web.
There is more to a benchmark than
Users are authenticated and can use any
Telephone, electricity and water gross energy use and Optergy provides
connection device whether a laptop or a
accounts often show current use against many ways to compare energy use based
phone with no requirement of installed
previous periods. This helps to identify on, for example, floor area, local climate,
software or plugins. As an example of
changes in patterns of use and may point hours of operation and others. By
the benefits this brings, Optergy allows,
to an underlying problem developing. allowing for the known variables, the
say, tenants to see the immediate
underlying energy-use efficiency can be
Optergy has powerful reports which reduction in energy and costs resulting
estimated and used to plan improvements.
allow you easily to make historical and from turning off lights, fan heaters and
relative comparisons. other appliances.
Do you want to be alerted to
anomalies in consumption to
help make decisions in real time?
Optergy will let you know if your
energy consumption or building
performance threatens your KPIs so
you can take action before it’s too late.
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