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Highlights of Opening Session from Catalyst 2014
- 1. ©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
Welcome to Catalyst
Steve Heinz, PE, CEM
Founder and CEO
- 3. #1: Amazing revival of U.S. energy production
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
- 4. Crude oil production is approaching the 1970
historical high of 10 MBD, which means…
Low natural gas prices are boosting
gas-intensive industries, which means…
Gas has overtaken coal in electric power
generation, which means…
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
- 5. #2: Electric grid “death spiral”?
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
- 6. Electricity sales have declined in 4 of the
last 5 years due to efficiency and solar PV.
“Grid parity” of solar PV due to falling solar
cost could de-stabilize prices. 4GW installed
in 2013
Edison Electric says that distributed
generation is a game changer. Think USPS.
When was the last time you wrote a letter?
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
- 7. #3: Efficiency is still the cheapest fuel
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- 8. Report by American Council for an Energy-
Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
About $0.028/kWh for utility company
energy efficiency programs
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab found
about the same results
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- 9. #4: More bill processing options
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
- 10. Electronic–EDI, flat files, PDF w/data
OCR–Optical Character Recognition
Web scraping
Outsource to service provider
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- 11. Snapshot
75 new clients via direct licenses and
about 100 more through service providers
Largest include Raytheon, City of
Phoenix, City of Philadelphia, The Kroger
Company, U.S. Marine Corps base, State
of Oklahoma, University of Texas, Fairfax
County Public Schools, AbbVie Inc
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
- 13. ©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
EnergyCAP Online Development Major
Projects Completed in 2013
M&V/Cost Avoidance
Customers & Chargebacks (% Splits)
Security audit and remediation
Many smaller projects and improvements
- 14. ©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
EnergyCAP Online Development Major
Projects scheduled or underway in 2014
Customers & Chargebacks (Submeters)
User-defined 13 accounting periods
Reduction target comparison line
Bill processing improvements
Usability improvements
- 15. ©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
Biggest Future Projects (2015)
Report generation tool
Interval data (smart meter data)
Continued API expansion
- 16. ©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
…followed by
…dozens of smaller projects (normalizing
factors, procurement tools, user-defined
fields, budgets, counters, internation-
alization, dashboard configuration, report
distribution and administration, more…)
- 17. ©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
Bottom Line: Our success is tied to
meeting the energy information needs of
you and your industry peers.
- 18. ©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
EnergyCAP’s mission is to provide the
software tools that maximize the value you
derive from your utility bills and energy
information processes.
That’s all we do!