Software provides integrated energy intelligence.
Press Release Summary:
RightEnergy allows business users to allocate and bill costs for utility services, including electricity, gas, water, and steam, to actual users. Historical energy use charts enable plants to determine which industrial processes might be shifted to avoid penalties. Product can determine processes that are not energy efficient and evaluate, in real-time, impact of critical load-shedding activities. Energy data collections can be scheduled to occur automatically.
Original Press Release:
E-Mon Introduces One-Stop Energy Intelligence System Businesses Can Allocate Energy Costs, Avoid High-Use Penalties with RightEnergy
LANGHORNE, Pa. - March 23, 2004 - E-Mon, L.P., the industry leader in energy submetering systems, today announced the availability of RightEnergy®, the first integrated energy intelligence system. RightEnergy allows business users to allocate and bill costs for all utility services, including electricity, gas, water and steam, to the actual users. The RightEnergy system gives businesses important snapshots of their energy use and enables them to better understand when, where and how energy is being used in their organizations, as well as the power quality levels at each monitored point. With this energy intelligence, businesses - especially manufacturers, commercial properties, government and educational facilities - can better control costs and improve operational efficiencies.
"Businesses need a way to combine all of their energy data into a single place, drill down into energy-intensive operations as needed, and verify that their energy-management decisions are positively affecting the bottom line," said Kantol Khek, vice president of software engineering at E-Mon. "We meet that market demand with an energy intelligence system that challenges industry standards by giving users the knowledge and flexibility they need at a practical price."
For example, educational facility managers can apportion energy charges to departments, student housing, tenants in the student center and individual buildings, as well as more accurately predict equipment maintenance needs. Military installations can distribute costs more equitably among battalions, central motor pool and hospital facilities. Property management companies can accurately split utility costs, including those attributable to common areas, between commercial and retail tenants. This creates an incentive to conserve energy and ensures that the building owner only pays its actual energy costs for unleased space while tenants pay for their actual use. Corporations with multiple locations can use RightEnergy as a one-stop energy intelligence system for more effective management of those sites.
RightEnergy also helps manufacturing plants avoid heavy penalties for peaks in their energy use by showing two critical items. First, historical energy use charts enable them to determine which industrial processes might be shifted to avoid the penalties. Second, RightEnergy shows manufacturing plant managers, in real time, whether their peak shaving activities on those specific industrial processes are producing the requisite reduction in energy use.
Highly scalable and customizable, RightEnergy leverages strengths from E-Mon products already well established in the marketplace. The system delivers robust cost allocation capabilities and rich graphical summaries of energy use, including the ability to:
Chart energy use
o Determine specific processes that are not energy-efficient
o Evaluate, in real-time, the impact of critical load-shedding activities
o Monitor all utility services, including electricity, gas, water and steam
o Identify poor performers by benchmarking energy levels at multiple facilities
o Compare energy usage by day, week, month or year
o Schedule energy data collections to occur automatically
Bill tenants
o Generate a single, integrated bill for all utility services
o Select from more than 80 utility rate tables for the appropriate customizable billing template
o Allocate energy costs based on tenants' actual energy use
o Create a virtual meter for common areas to spread these energy costs across all tenants pro rata
o Expand bills to include power factor, an increasingly common utility penalty determinant
o Support virtually any billing cycle
o Manage tenant bills with pre-set start/stop dates, based on lease move-in, move-out schedules
More benefits
o Interface with existing energy management or building automation systems
o Identify utility billing errors and substantiate claims for credit
o Reduce energy consumption
o Verify results of energy-saving measures
o Export data to spreadsheets and presentations
RightEnergy collects and reports energy data from anywhere in the world using a modem and Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher. Communications protocols, such as Ethernet, wireless and RS 485, are also supported. The energy intelligence system includes one day of onsite software installation and training support from E-Mon experts. The RightEnergy system is now available through E-Mon's network of more than 3,000 distributors. For more information or for a list of distributors in your area, call (800) 334-3666 or visit www.emon.com.
About E-Mon
E-Mon, L.P., a Hunt Power company, is the leading manufacturer of submeters and automatic meter reading equipment. E-Mon products are used worldwide to allocate utility costs and control energy use. Customers include commercial office, residential and retail properties, as well as industrial, government and educational facilities. E-Mon has been providing energy intelligence to companies in diverse industries for more than two decades.
RightEnergy is a trademark, and E-Mon is a registered trademark, of Hunt Power, L.P. All other product and company names referenced herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.
Business Development Contact:
Don Millstein, President
E-Mon, L.P., a Hunt Power company
(800) 334-3666
dmillstein@emon.com
