Compare the energy performance of your school facilities by compiling your utility data
The first step to reduce energy consumption and shrink utility bills is to compare the energy performance of your school facilities. When all your utility data is in one place, you can make the best decisions to get the most out of your facilities budget.
Many of our most remarkable projects were the direct result of seeing the historical trends of facility energy consumption data. A middle school in northwestern Alberta is saving $40,000 per year after we compared the school’s energy performance to other facilities in the district and discovered an issue with its building automation system.
Data from utility providers is the most critical piece of information on the performance of school facilities. But too often, this information isn’t shared with facilities teams and building operators – it gets paid by the finance department and then archived.
When the information is all in one place, you can see which school facilities are performing the best and the worst. You have the data to know where to put your budget and efforts to make the biggest difference in energy efficiency.
Rede Energy can work with any utility vendor in western Canada to compile the detailed energy consumption of school facilities for the entire district. You can see how your schools compare and track their progress.
Rede’s 3-Year Utility Snapshot displays the utility data from all your facilities in one place.
Jody Frowley, Secretary Treasurer, High Prairie School Division
All your utility data in one place
We started creating historical utility snapshots to view the data from multiple utility vendors in one place. This information forms the foundation for our energy audits and energy management decisions.
When Rede compiled the data for a school district in northern Alberta, we discovered they had eight vendors for their propane, gas and electricity. We were able to create a single report that aggregated all this data, providing district leadership with a comprehensive picture of the energy performance of every school.
Rede removes the obstacles to your utility data
Utility consumption data exists – every provider has endless records of how much and when. However, it is rarely compiled into a single place or displayed in a way that makes sense.
These are some of the obstacles to collecting utility data of all your school facilities:
- Inconsistent and complicated bills
- Utility services provided by multiple vendors
- Some vendors have advanced online portals while others use paper bills
- Data formats and date ranges vary between utility providers and utility types
- Vendors have different processes to release data
- Data from different facilities is not compiled in the same place
We remove these barriers to create a single source of information for all your facilities.
Jody Frowley, Secretary Treasurer, High Prairie School Division
Compare the performance of your facilities
Rede’s historical utility snapshots give you clarity on the performance of your facilities. It is the foundation to a systematic approach to lowering energy costs by providing the data to determine your next steps.
Our snapshots automatically compile your utility information – from all your facilities and all your vendors. We then normalize the information and compare against benchmarks so you can view a realistic ranking of all your buildings in one place.
With clear graphs and detailed reporting, everyone on your leadership team will be able to compare the energy performance of your school facilities.
Rede’s utility snapshots will give you the insight to the next step to save energy and money.
Contact us to get a 3-Year Utility Snapshot for your school district.