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Real Time Energy Metering Yeilds Great Efficiencies

By Daniel Stouffer

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As organizations of every shape and size face a twin pronged challenge when it comes to their use of energy, management should explore every opportunity to arm themselves with the best possible information and the highest quality data to enable them to take their best position.

The company faces a strong call to become more sustainable and to cut back in every respect in the energy that the organization uses, as a consequence of the carbon emissions that result. The other challenge, of course, is the sheer cost of using the energy in the first place and the associated security concerns for the future.

If there is so much pressure on an organization to realize the scale of its energy use and to make improvements, the quality of information available to decision-makers must be very high. It is not acceptable to use historical data, when real-time energy metering and other associated improvements can now enable the use of best case practices.

As organizations of every shape and size face a twin pronged challenge when it comes to their use of energy, management should explore every opportunity to arm themselves with the best possible information and the highest quality data to enable them to take their best position. The company faces a strong call to become more sustainable and to cut back in every respect in the energy that the organization uses, as a consequence of the carbon emissions that result. The other challenge, of course, is the sheer cost of using the energy in the first place and the associated security concerns for the future.

Real-time energy metering involves a dedicated network accessibility of data from meters throughout an entire system. Sometimes existing meters can be retrofitted, but at other times especially equipped meters are linked in order to capture data at specified intervals, for example every ten minutes.

An organization's energy liability and carbon emissions footprint is effectively the sum of its energy use for each individual corporate asset. Each asset of any consequence must be metered in its own right, so that its contribution to the problem is assessed. Unless that asset is optimally efficient, a position of true sustainability may not be achievable.

Data loggers, as part of real-time energy metering solutions, provide data to a central database, where results are integrated, analyzed and presented. Reports are available on a micro analysis level, enabling the operator to make critical decisions and change the operation of the asset or assets in real-time, during the course of the billing cycle.

Energy utility bills have traditionally been a significant cost within an organization's monthly profit and loss statements. Without the use of real-time energy metering solutions and fully digitized reporting systems, it has often been historically difficult to match the utility bill with the actual energy used. Any errors evident would often go unnoticed and this would compromise a company's efficiency and sustainability challenge.

When real-time energy metering is used with digitized utility bill checking, organizations have found that they are able to compare actual use versus chargeable liabilities to an accuracy of less than 1/10 of 1 percent.

In a deregulated energy society, a company that is able to analyze its electricity and energy use due to real-time energy metering, may well be able to procure its energy according to a "best case" scenario through use of sophisticated energy profiles. Accurate metering is an essential first step in what is certain to become a battle to reduce the corporate carbon footprint.

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