Software tracks total facility energy costs.
Press Release Summary:
RightEnergy(TM) integrated energy intelligence system allows business users to allocate and bill costs for all utility services, including electricity, gas, water, and steam. It collects and reports historical and real-time energy data from variety of metering hardware. Product determines processes that are not energy-efficient and evaulates impact of critical load shedding activities. User can select from 80 utility rate tables for appropriate customizable billing template.
Original Press Release:
E-Mon's New RightEnergy Software System Tracks Total Facility Energy Costs, Helps Users Avoid High-Use Penalties
Power factor / power quality monitoring functions help users increase energy efficiency; system available now through nationwide network of 3,000 electrical distributors
LANGHORNE, Pa.-March 23, 2004-E-Mon, L.P., the industry leader in energy submetering systems, today announced the availability of RightEnergy(TM), the first integrated energy intelligence system that 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 business decisions were positively affecting the bottom line," said Kantol Khek, vice president of software engineering at E-Mon. "We met 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 causing the requisite reduction in energy use.
Highly scalable and customizable, RightEnergy leverages strengths of E-Mon products already well established in the marketplace. The system collects and reports-both historical and real-time-energy data from a wide variety of metering hardware (sold separately), including E-Mon's Pro-Mon, I-Mon, interval data recorders, and others. Data points may be accessed anywhere in the world using a modem and Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher. Supported communications protocols include Ethernet, wireless and RS-485. System hardware requirements include installed metering devices, the appropriate communications interface, IBM-compatible PC with 20GB hard drive, monitor, CD ROM drive, USB or RS-232 port, and printer interface.
The RightEnergy system provides real-time monitoring of power quality parameters, including power factor, volts, amperes, phase angle, kW, kVAR, kVA and frequency. Useful for diagnosing equipment behavior, power quality functions allow the user to identify and isolate potential equipment problems in the facility that could contribute to less efficient usage of costly power resources. The RightEnergy system's capability to monitor power factor has become increasingly important in today's energy market, in which utilities have begun to track PF and kVAR hours as a basis for penalizing users who do not meet the utility's minimum energy efficiency thresholds.
E-Mon's New RightEnergy Software
The system delivers robust cost allocation capabilities and rich graphical summaries of energy use, including the ability to:
o 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
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
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
Available now through E-Mon's nationwide network of 3,000 electrical distributors, the RightEnergy system also provides electrical contractors with an opportunity to sell their customers electrical submeters to complement existing water, gas or other meters for a total facility energy picture. 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.
Price: $3,000 (includes software installation and one day of onsite training by factory representative)
Availability: Now
Delivery: Off the shelf at local distributor
Business Development Contact:
Don Millstein, President
E-Mon, L.P., a Hunt Power Company
One Oxford Valley, Suite 418
Langhorne, PA 19047
(800) 334-3666
dmillstein@emon.com
URL: www.emon.com
