The webinar on energy data, held on September 23, 2014, featured panelists including Chris Happ, Jerome Montrone, and Erik Becker discussing the shift towards data-driven energy management to reduce building operating costs. Key topics included the role of data in energy efficiency, the importance of automated data collection, and the benefits of using tools like Energy Star Portfolio Manager and Urjanet for tracking and managing energy consumption. The session emphasized the impact of effective energy management on sustainability goals and operational savings for companies and institutions.

1. REDUCE YOUR BUILDING
OPERATING COSTS WITH
ENERGY DATA
WEBINAR brought to you by:
Sept. 23, 2014

2. Panelists
Chris Happ
CEO
Jerome Montrone
SVP
Erik Becker
Vice President

3. Agenda
1 | Discuss why energy management is becoming data driven
2 | Learn how data can help reduce energy consumption in your building(s)
3 | Hear examples from our panelists
4 | Live Q&A

4. Got questions?
Use the Question Tool in your webinar
dashboard to ask our panelists
questions.
Slides & recording will be sent following
the webinar

5. Speaker Bio
Chris Happ
CEO
Since 2008, Chris has been the CEO of Goby, LLC. Goby’s award winning SeaSuite™ Software as a Service
platform captures and distills multiple data sources into simple, contextualized dashboards, tasks, and reports
to cost-effectively monitor, optimize, report, and track whole-building energy and sustainability performance.
SeaSuite™ users annually manage more than 250 million square feet from the cloud including regulatory
compliance with energy reporting ordinances nationally, more than 300 Energy Star benchmarks, and over 100
LEED EB:O+M projects. In addition, SeaSuite™ users and buildings have collected reduced average energy
consumption by more than 20% since 2010.
Chris has more than 15 years in enterprise software and management consulting experience including supply
chain software implementation and process optimization for Fortune 50 companies including ExxonMobil,
Disney, Southwest Airlines, Pfizer, and JP Morgan.

6. Speaker Bio
Jerome Montrone
SVP
Mr. Montrone is currently overseeing the sustainability and energy programs for Beacon’s entire US and European
Portfolio, and completed more than 60 LEED projects including LEED NC GOLD Certification for Beacon’s Tour First
property, the tallest building in France.
His successful proprietary energy savings programs have led to significant reductions in Beacon’s carbon impact and
energy use and were recognized by Beacon Capital Partners winning several ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year awards
and a Sustained Excellence Award last year. He is also member of the Real Estate Round Table.
Mr. Montrone is also, currently the Program Manager for construction in Beacon’s NYC portfolio. He
led the reconstruction and fortification of a portfolio building in New York City that sustained significant flooding
damage from Hurricane Sandy. Based on this experience, he was appointed to the NYC Mayoral Building Resiliency
Task Force, on the Commercial Buildings Committee.
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7. De Blasio Orders a Greener City, Setting Goals
for Energy Efficiency of Buildings
“The initiative is part of a pledge...to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent
by 2050 from 2005 levels.”

8. De Blasio Orders a Greener City, Setting Goals
for Energy Efficiency of Buildings
“Global warming was much more of an abstraction to
New York City until two years ago.
There’s a moral imperative to act.”
- New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio

9. What role does data play?
“If data is the foundation of all analytics, then energy data is the foundation of all
energy management decisions.”
- Alisdair McDougall, Verdantix

10. How can we use energy data to reduce our building
operating costs?

11. ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager allows firms to:
Measure
carbon
footprint
Verify & track
savings
Report on
performance
Gain industry
recognition
Set
investment
priorities

12. Have you asked yourself…?
Are you still manually entering data from paper utility
bills? Are you doing this for all of the buildings in your
portfolio?
Manual data collection is prone to human error that
results in frequent mistakes that can be very costly.

13. Have you asked yourself…?
Are you leaving behind a significant amount
valuable data? Is your data set incomplete?
What process does your accounting team use for
capturing information from utility bills? How does
your energy data get to energy management?

14. Are the inconsistencies in the data due to different
billing cycles?
Failure to account for all the days in an invoice
period can lead to almost a 3% reporting error.
Have you asked yourself…?

15. Have you asked yourself…?
Does your lack of data make you feel exposed to
risk or missed opportunities?
If the goal is to reduce energy costs and
consumption, but you don’t have all the data, are
you making the right decisions?

16. Is your team manually aggregating and normalizing
your utility bill data?
Is your data coming from multiple sources across
geographically different locations?
Have you asked yourself…?

17. Have you asked yourself…?
Are you waiting on your monthly utility bills to get
the data you need?
Long delays make it impossible for energy and
facility managers to react and make real-time
decisions.

18. These are all questions to ask the teams who are responsible
for energy management, facilities, accounting, and
sustainability

19. How does Urjanet factor in?
Urjanet is the world’s first provider of automated utility data
as a service.
We deliver the Big Energy Data that large enterprises,
government agencies, and educational institutions rely on to
make smarter
more profitable
& eco-friendly energy decisions.

20. We provide value across the organization
ACCOUNTING PROCUREMENT FACILITIES &
ENERGY MGMT
SUSTAINABILITY
Reduce costs through
automation
Reduce late fees
Avoid shut-offs
Create enterprise
repository of rich energy
data
Tariff analysis
Bill validation
Budgeting
Risk management
Energy audits
Efficiency projects
General analysis
Carbon reporting
Tracking greenhouse gas
emissions
LEED certification
Investments in
alternative energy

21. Our Solutions
URJANET
UTILITY DATA
URJANET
METER DATA
URJANET
WEATHER DATA
URJANET
ALERTS
A single source of
multi-site billing data
for electricity, natural
gas, and water
A cost-effective way
to access detailed
demand-side data
without installing
sub-meters
Hourly, site-specific
data available for
North American
locations
Immediate notifications
of energy usage and
accounting deviations
based on current and
past billing data

22. Join us for:
FREE REGISTRATION at urjanet.
com/spark-2014
WHO
Energy management software and services
professionals, Fortune 500 executives, members of
the Urjanet community
WHAT
1.5 day energy conference with speakers, cocktail
reception, awards ceremony, expert panel,
Solutions Zone, and more
WHEN
October 8-9, 2014
WHERE
Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center

23. Q&A

24. Panelists
Chris Happ
CEO
Jerome Montrone
SVP
Erik Becker
Vice President

25. THANKS FOR
TUNING IN!
Replay and slides will be emailed shortly.