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The Benefits of EnergyCAP Riverside County Economic Development Agency
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Policy highlights:
H-32—The Policy Approved August 10, 2010
EDA processes most utility bills for
payment
EDA charges user departments for
utility costs
EDA coordinates new account
creation
EDA communicates regarding utility
issues
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EnergyCAP Utility Bill Management Software
Used by more than 10,000 energy managers in 3,000 organizations
Five-time Energy Star Partner of the Year
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EnergyCAP Utility Bill Management Software
Other Awards • Environmental Leader Product of the Year
• Association of Energy Engineers’ International Energy Engineer of
the Year
• Inc. Fastest Growing Private Company (5 times)
• Pennsylvania Business Central’s Top 100 Organizations
• Stevie Awards for Sales and Marketing (2 times)
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PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES
• *Utility Bill Auditing • *Problem Bill Tracking
• *Process Improvements • *Utility Data Reporting • *Ranking of Buildings • *Sustainability and Compliance
PROACTIVE ACTIVITIES
The Need for EnergyCAP We need to be preventive and proactive regarding
utility costs
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Consistency with Historical Usage
Utility Bill Auditing EnergyCAP reviews bills for the following:
Bill Ownership
Utility Company Errors
Estimated meter readings
New line item charges
Utility tax charges
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Auditing Yields Savings
Initial investment: $118,000
Return on investment: $146,598
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Every Bill Entered in EnergyCAP Gets Audited
Problem Bills Are Identified, Researched and Tracked
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Examples of Errors Found Through Auditing –Posting Error
$19,025.04
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Examples of Errors Found Through Auditing –Demand Error
$29,860.97
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Bill Issue Report
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We want to be Proactive . . .
Not reactive!
EnergyCAP has features to help us be proactive
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EnergyCAP has helped EDA streamline the process of paying utility bills.
Process Improvements
• * 53 utility providers • * 3,000 monthly vendor bills
• * 2,000 monthly chargeback bills
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Accounts Payable Upload Process Improvements:
EnergyCAP eliminates the need to re-enter in PeopleSoft.
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Bill Splits (Chargebacks) Process Improvements
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Accounts Receivable Upload Process Improvements
EnergyCAP eliminates duplicate entry in PeopleSoft.
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Electronic Billing Process Improvements:
Electronic billing reduces data entry and improves accuracy.
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Process Improvements: Electronic Billing
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Process Improvements: Electronic Billing
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Process Improvements: Electronic Billing
Final Testing Final Testing
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Process Improvements: Electronic Billing
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Energy Reporting There are many reports available in EnergyCAP.
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Energy Reporting Ability to rank the performance of county buildings by cost and usage
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Ranking of Energy Performance Having all bills processed and tracked by EDA will allow us to better identify energy projects
that save the most in cost and usage.
Projects can then be identified that give the “biggest bang for the buck”.
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Sustainability & Compliance
EnergyCAP provides an interface to Portfolio Manager
Once the building profile is set up, EnergyCAP automatically uploads building energy data on a monthly basis
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Sustainability & Compliance
• Eliminates double entry • Returns an EnergyStar Rating
that can be seen in EnergyCAP
• Satisfies emerging legislative mandates
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Sustainability & Compliance
EnergyCAP automatically calculates an organization’s carbon footprint from the utility
bills
• Calculates Scope 2 indirect emissions
• Tracks any Scope 1 direct emissions
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Sustainability & Compliance EnergyCAP provides screen shots of
historical emissions data
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Sustainability & Compliance EnergyCAP provides screen shots of
historical emissions data
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Sustainability & Compliance EnergyCAP provides screen shots of
historical emissions data
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Sustainability & Compliance EnergyCAP provides reports for GHG
emissions
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Creativity
Riverside County took receivership of a bankrupt water company
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Creativity
“EDA Water Service” now uses EnergyCAP to temporarily bill impacted water customers
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Creativity
“EDA Water Service” now uses EnergyCAP to temporarily bill impacted water customers
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EnergyCAP has been a foundational tool for Riverside County
It has helped us save money, streamline processing and identify
best opportunities for efficiency
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EnergyCAP helps the county make the utility bill work for us.