In this transcript and slidedeck from a webinar, Steve Heinz shares best budgeting practices to enhance your organization’s current budget practices:
Unique aspects of utilities budgeting
Key questions to ask before creating your budget(s)
Primary factors impacting utilities budget adjustments
Departmental vs. central budgeting
EnergyCAP’s new Excel®-based Budget Worksheet tool
Why facility managers are crucial to introducing sustainabilityJohn Machado
As technology becomes more accessible than ever, sustainability initiatives are becoming exponentially easier for companies to implement. Targets are being put in place by companies, motivated by factors like climate awareness, customer expectations or regulations being set by governmental bodies. At the centre of this nexus of change stands the facility manager, making it possible to conceptualise and implement these plans.
In this transcript and slidedeck from a webinar, Steve Heinz shares best budgeting practices to enhance your organization’s current budget practices:
Unique aspects of utilities budgeting
Key questions to ask before creating your budget(s)
Primary factors impacting utilities budget adjustments
Departmental vs. central budgeting
EnergyCAP’s new Excel®-based Budget Worksheet tool
Why facility managers are crucial to introducing sustainabilityJohn Machado
As technology becomes more accessible than ever, sustainability initiatives are becoming exponentially easier for companies to implement. Targets are being put in place by companies, motivated by factors like climate awareness, customer expectations or regulations being set by governmental bodies. At the centre of this nexus of change stands the facility manager, making it possible to conceptualise and implement these plans.
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EnergyCAP CEO Steve Heinz suggests five keys to creating systemic organizational change that will last for decades. Steve has been in the energy management software business for more than 35 years, and was recognized as the 2013 International Energy Engineer of the Year by AEE.
Heinz will discuss:
- behavior-based savings programs
- continuous improvement
- strategies for elevating the position of EM in your organization
- energy tracking and reporting
- short- and long-term goalsetting
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Who we are….
We’re Verifiable Results; we do more than just change out light bulbs. We help you make an
informed business decision based on the facts and we’ll prove it.
We’ve performed the sub-metering of Duke Energy’s Smart Saver Conservation Program. This
has allowed us to witness firsthand what some of the best companies in the world are doing to
reduce their carbon footprint and energy costs.
And if you don’t have the money available we have partners that want to invest in energy
saving improvements.
Here are some of the benefits of our Energy Saving Service
Maintenance gets the tools they need to get their job done
Plant Management and Engineering gain productivity improvements
Finance gets favorable returns on their investment (typically over 20%)
Senior Management achieves their sustainability goals
Year 0 Annual Cost of Wasted Energy
Years 1 – 5 Fixed Payments for New Equipment with Immediate Positive Cash flow
Years 6 + + Ongoing Positive Cash Flow
Who we are….
We’re Verifiable Results; we do more than just change out light bulbs. We help you make an
informed business decision based on the facts and we’ll prove it.
We’ve performed the sub-metering of Duke Energy’s Smart Saver Conservation Program. This
has allowed us to witness firsthand what some of the best companies in the world are doing to
reduce their carbon footprint and energy costs.
And if you don’t have the money available we have partners that want to invest in energy
saving improvements.
Here are some of the benefits of our Energy Saving Service
Maintenance gets the tools they need to get their job done
Plant Management and Engineering gain productivity improvements
Finance gets favorable returns on their investment (typically over 20%)
Senior Management achieves their sustainability goals
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