What We Do
ManagingEnergy.com provides a secure online, on-demand system for building owners to control energy costs in their buildings.
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Set Benchmarks
See how your facilities compare to one another, and how they measure up against similar buildings in your sector.
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Validate Bills
Spot billing errors, recover over-billing, and compare available energy tariffs.
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Perform Energy Audits
Improve results and cut the cost of energy audits by over 30%.
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Analyze Efficiency Measures
Capture and analyze the key information for all of your efficiency opportunities.
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Model Financial Scenarios
Use flexible scenario modeling to compare and package efficiency investments and service options for maximum impact. Use either simple payback or life-cycle-costing.
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Track Conservation Performance
Use industry standards to monitor and track results towards efficiency targets. Instantly factor out variables like weather differences, suite occupancy, or production volumes.
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Report Anywhere, Anytime
Use the WebReports library to deliver On-Demand, high quality reports to anyone involved in your energy management program. Use rapid feedback of results to tie conservation results to job expectations.
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Work With Partners
Energy management involves a lot of people and activities. It's more than just analyzing utility bills. MEC is online, so its perfect for collaborating with engineers, contractors, building staff, and tenants to get at the savings opportunities.
History
ManagingEnergy.com (MEC) is the online software spinoff of a leading Canadian consulting firm, in business since 1990, specializing in upgrading existing buildings to solve operating problems and use less energy. The MEC system has been in development since 1994, first as an internal tool, and now as an online service. It is used to analyze utility billing information, to document building systems and operating practices (an essential step to uncovering conservation potential), to identify and assess conservation opportunities, to track implementation, and to track the effectiveness of energy management programs.
We want to help building owners understand and take control of their utility costs. Whether the opportunities are outside the meter (perhaps comparison and renegotiation of commodity contracts, or identification of overbilling incidents), or whether they are inside your buildings (lighting conversions, control systems, tenant engagement programs, major system retrofits), MEC is a full suite of tools designed as the backbone for your enterprise system.
In years past, our customers paid very substantial hard costs for the hardware, software, and setup services needed to get the system running on their internal networks. Updates involved patches at each site, and support sometimes meant sending our technical staff onsite. Other energy accounting packages still use this business model.
In 2005, we moved to a client/server portal system, hosted on our servers. Setup was simplified and less expensive, but the portal system introduced its own challenges, especially with corporate firewalls. And the system still lacked the flexibility to adapt to the variety of needs that our clients brought forward. They had to adapt their operating practices to the system rather than the system adapting to existing business practices.
Through all of this, we maintained our unique position in the market.
MEC has long been the only system for work inside the building as well as outside the utility meter. It has all of the most advanced features of energy accounting systems, but MEC is the only system with building equipment details, conservation opportunity details, and full energy auditing support.
The Web 2.0 Platform Revolution
ManagingEnergy.com is now based on Web 2.0 technology, which is revolutionizing the way we all use the internet. It is full-featured "Software as a Service", using only a web browser. Think "SalesForce.com" or "Facebook". Setup is a fraction of the cost of competitors, but there's a lot more than that.
Customize the MEC experience for each user, so team members see only the pieces needed to do their jobs. Integrate easily with legacy systems. Quickly brand the interface to fit seamlessly into your corporate intranet. Navigate buildings, equipment records, site photos, utility meters and bills from a simple tree menu or through 3-dimensional dynamic maps. Design reports to match your current practices and make them available only to those team members who need them. Get the latest improvements and features instantly, with no hassle.
We believe MEC is the logical choice for anyone who needs to manage energy costs in buildings. Whether or not you choose to use all of the features right away, whether you have thousands of buildings or only one, MEC is the most complete, most cost-effective energy management system available.