PredictEnergy®
Track the return on your energy investments Reduce energy costs in the context of your operations
PredictEnergy® is a cloud-based Commercial Energy Management System that integrates real-time energy data with facility production metrics and your utility tariff to help track the return on your energy investments and reduce energy costs.
What is a Commercial Energy Management System?
Energy Monitoring
Physical and logical meters
Power Quality
More than 30 measurements at 1 second intervals
Energy Asset Management
Distributed generation and load centers
Energy Analytics
Actual energy cost of everything you make, move or store
PredictEnergy® Analytics
PredictEnergy® is an energy analytics and energy management system that allows you to synthesize:
- How much energy and power your business uses, and when and where it’s used.
- What your business makes, moves or stores; where it performs this work, when it performs this work, and how this work changes and scales.
- What your business pays, and how it procures, energy and power.
Complex energy environments working off complicated tariff rate structures require a sophisticated approach to determine what improvement measure to work on next to make the biggest impact, and how much time, effort and money to spend on that measure.
PredictEnergy® analytics software is designed to provide answers and allows you to:
- Manage energy demand costs aligned with what your company makes, moves or stores.
- Enable cost audits and assessments to drive down process costs based on your tariff.
- Optimize your distributed generation and energy cost-down programs
- Manage energy costs against unit production or other key performance indicators (KPIs)
PredictEnergy® is an indispensable Energy Management System, and decision support tool to bring down energy costs in complex energy environments.
Predictive Analytics Features To Reduce Your Energy Costs
Cloud Based
24/7 access to energy data from any device. Securely backup energy information to the cloud.
Secure
PredictEnergy® is connected using standard bank-level security so your energy data is protected and private.
Predictive Engine
Hosted on the backend, the predictive analytics draw from the combination of your energy data, your facility unit production data, and your utility’s latest tariff pricing.
Data Acquisition
Energy meters installed around the facility capture energy data which is wirelessly sent to our server.
Energy Analytics View
The online dashboard reports energy metrics in terms of kWh/unit output and energy $$/unit output. Reports can cover one facility, multiple facilities, or company wide data.
Custom Reports
Key performance indicators, based on instrumented or derived metrics, detailing energy and power data by business, division, plant-level and more – all in the context of your tariff.
Run “What If” Scenarios On Your Energy Bill.
PredictEnergy® allows Operations Managers to predict energy cost changes by tariff schedule, equipment, process, technology deployment and more. Use PredictEnergy® to answer “what-if” optimization questions like:
How much less would it cost to produce each SKU?
Could we avoid large demand charges?
Would we avoid those expensive peak demand charges?
Would solar or some other distributed generation bring down our bill?
Are Your Energy Production Costs Too High?
Do You Know What To Do Next?
Energy Pain Explained
With energy costs too high, our company has performed all of the classic energy reduction projects gaining us 5-7% annualized drop in energy consumption. However we have not been able to achieve these same reductions year after year. We’re unsure of the next step to reduce our energy use.
Energy Solution
First, focus on reducing energy cost vs. energy use. To understand your energy issues, HelioPower will determine your facility energy performance profile and evaluate energy reduction technologies and the best program solution to meet your energy reduction and payback goals in alignment with your budget.
Action Steps
Energy Pain Explained
Our company has multiple facilities and few or none of the facilities can meet their specific energy cost targets.
Energy Solution
With energy costs too high across multiple facilities, it’s best to focus on an Enterprise energy cost reduction goal and isolate the different tariffs, climatic conditions and production variations to determine the principal energy cost drivers in the business. With that input, HelioPower will provide you an energy cost reduction roadmap to reduce your enterprise energy costs and meet your payback goals for your specific budget.
Action Steps
Energy Pain Explained
How do we know if the energy reduction projects and facility improvement measures we’ve completed met the energy goals.
Energy Solution
HelioPower provides round-trip analysis using measurement and verification (M&V) standards to ensure that energy reduction goals were met and are sustained.
Action Steps
Energy Pain Explained
With energy costs too high, we started looking at our energy load profile. Our company operates during normal business hours, and has a very large load demand during peak energy periods. Consequently my demand charges are a large portion of my electrical bill. How do I reduce the demand charges?
Energy Solution
HelioPower will develop and energy performance profile and technology cost and payback analysis specifically to determine best load management solutions.
Action Steps
Energy Pain Explained
With energy costs too high, we started to look at options like demand-response. How can our company participate in a demand response program if we’re limited to what loads we can shut down?
Energy Solution
HelioPower will conduct an energy performance profile evaluation against process operations to determine best demand management program within the facilities operational restraints.
Action Steps
Energy Pain Explained
With energy costs too high, our company began looking for solutions and now we are routinely approached by vendors introducing a wide variety of products and technologies to help reduce energy. Which technologies should I consider?
Energy Solution
The best technology for one facility may not be the best for another, it’s very much facility dependent. HelioPower will evaluate your facility’s energy performance profile against selected technology solutions’ to determine cost, payback and best solution within budget constraints.
Action Steps
Energy Pain Explained
Our company has dynamic loads where we encounter multiple peak demands throughout the day. These peak demands give us disproportionately high demand charges based on our energy use.
Energy Solutions
HelioPower will evaluate your facility’s energy performance profile against technologies that specifically address load management, peak shaving and energy storage. Then, provide you with an energy solution to meet your energy reduction and payback goals in alignment with your budget..
Action Steps
Energy Pain Explained
With energy costs too high, our company started using the utility’s customer information management system to download and evaluate our energy use. The data is not current and we’re uncertain if our evaluation is correct.
Energy Solution
HelioPower’s’ PredictEnergy cloud-based energy analytics software platform creates an energy analytics model, or what HelioPower calls an energy cube. The energy cube is a multi-dimensional view of a facility’s energy performance profile and provides a powerful view into energy cost drivers. Some of our clients that use Predictnergy™ include water districts, factories, and large distribution centers.