Free Energy Manager Tools

Free Energy Manager Tools
©2013 EnergyCAP, Inc. @energycap #energyleader www.EnergyCAP.com
Steve Heinz, PE, CEM
Founder & CEO
EnergyCAP, Inc.

Presented by EnergyCAP, Inc.
Thirty-year industry leader; first release in 1982. (The predecessor
software was FASER Energy Accounting).
Web-based and on-premise versions.
Financially secure. No debt. No VC funds.
Used by organizations that receive many utility bills for bill
processing, energy reporting and analytics.
Five years running

City Government (San
Francisco, Baltimore, Sacramento, Virginia
Beach, Tampa, Denver, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Cleveland)
County Government (Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara
CA; Loudoun, Fairfax, Chesterfield VA; Miami Dade, Charlotte FL)
Federal (USMC, Smithsonian, U.S. Dept of Energy Labs)
Commercial (Ryder, Equity Residential, Forest City, BJs
Wholesale Clubs, Burlington Coat Factory)
Education (800+ school districts, SUNY system, Univ of CA
system, UCF, Univ of Kansas)

Free Energy Manager Tools
www.FreeEnergyManagerTools.com

10 valuable, and free,
online tools

1. Energy University
An offering of Schneider Electric
All courses are free and typically take less than an hour
Endorsement and/or education credits are offered by many
organizations including: AFE, USGBC, BOMI, IEEE and many
state PE licensing boards
Dozens of courses, available in multiple languages
Self-paced, online, narrated, illustrated slideshows
Free Professional Energy Manager certification

2. Weather Data Depot
An offering of EnergyCAP, Inc.
Free daily degree days for 14,000 sites in North America
Updated daily; historical data from 1995
Excel interface
Variable balance point temperature
Search by ZIP code, station ID or city/state
Degree day reports, cumulative HDD/CDD comparison
charts, 14-day DD forecast

3. DOE Software Tools Directory
An offering of U.S. Dept of Energy, EERE
Includes 400 software tools for “evaluating energy
efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability in
buildings.”
Some are free tools, most aren‟t

3. DOE Software Tools Directory

4. Noesis
An offering of Noesis Energy
Provides end users with tools to track and improve
energy
Provides end users with a collaborative platform to
connect them with the people, companies and
organizations that can help them make the right
decisions to begin realizing savings
Most basic functionality is free
A “go to” site for energy managers

4. Noesis

5. DOE Energy Information
Administration
An offering of U.S. Dept of Energy–U.S. Energy
Information Administration
Official statistics on national energy consumption
End-use sectors: residential, commercial, manufacturing,
transportation
Projections in Energy Outlook documents
Underlying data is public. Downloadable in pdf, Excel

5. DOE Energy Information Administration

6. Online Unit Conversions
An offering of OnlineConversion.com (probably one guy
working out of his garage)
Quite a complete choice of From/To units of measure

6. Online Unit Conversions

7. Building Benchmarks (CBECS)
An offering of EnergyCAP, Inc
Makes CBECS data easy to use
CBECS is the U.S. Dept of Energy‟s Commercial
Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, the database
that‟s the foundation of ENERGY STAR ratings.
Provides the national „standards‟ for BTU/Sq Ft

7. Building Benchmarks (CBECS)

8. EPA eGRID and Carbon
Equivalencies
An offering of U.S. EPA
“Power Profiler” shows how clean your electricity is,
based on Zip code and eGRID emissions database
“Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator” shows
carbon equivalencies, useful for presentations and
marketing.

8. EPA eGRID and Carbon Equivalencies

9. Open Energy Info–DOE
Rate Repository
An offering of U.S. Dept of Energy
Free utility rate repository
29,000+ rates from almost 4,000 vendors
Searchable by ZIP code
Available API allows you to grab the underlying data via
a web service
Library of energy apps is included

9. Open Energy Info–DOE Rate Repository

10. Enterprise Smart Grid
An offering of Groom Energy Solutions LLC
Collaborative site covering the latest demand side smart
grid news
They do a good job in keeping current with what‟s going
on in the industry
Resources include case studies, white papers
Groom publishes a Software Buyer‟s Guide

10. Enterprise Smart Grid

Free Newsletters We Recommend
Groom Energy
www.GroomEnergy.com
Fierce Energy
www.FierceEnergy.com
Energy Manager Today
www.EnergyManagerToday.com

Please, contact us if you have any
suggestions for more links to free Energy
Manager tools!
Use the contact link at the top of the
website.

Thank you for attending this presentation!

Free Energy Manager Tools

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (6)

Similar to Free Energy Manager Tools

Similar to Free Energy Manager Tools (20)

More from EnergyCAP, Inc.

More from EnergyCAP, Inc. (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

Free Energy Manager Tools