Energy monitoring provides crucial business intelligence of exactly when, where and how much energy is being used in your facilities.
Monitoring & Targeting
Tracking electricity usage in time intervals or real time combined with detailed reporting capabilities provides total usage patterns for time-of-day, time-of-week or time-of-year analysis. An initial survey addresses energy consumption trends such as weekly, seasonal and operational statistics. Specific areas of energy waste are identified and any underlying factors that influence the consumption, such as production methods or exterior temperatures, are taken into consideration. Monitoring of energy usage data allows facility managers to make decisions regarding procurement, load scheduling and maintenance, and can result in significant cost savings when used to set performance targets for energy efficiency upgrades.
Fact Check
BlueStar offers hardware and software packages that provide access to usage data and reporting through an easy-to-use dashboard interface.
Sub-Metering
Sub-metering is used in commercial and industrial buildings to report on usage data for sub-panels or specific categories of equipment to help understand granular usage patterns within a facility for time-of-day, time-of-week or time-of-year analysis. Sub-metering provides the data necessary to implement programs within facilities to reduce electricity usage and costs, and participate in green building programs such as LEED.
Fact Check
Sub-metering allows monitoring of the actual energy costs of high energy demand equipment such as chillers, boilers and compressors.
