Success Stories

A $20,000 Win: How Westminster Canterbury Used Energy Manager to Recoup Thousands of Overpaid Utility Bills

Westminster Canterbury Richmond

“It’s easy to pull data from the system and create graphics and visuals to help us communicate with our executive team and our resident-driven sustainability committee. The software makes it so much easier to tell the story of how we’re saving energy.” 

Jason
Wells
Manager of Facility Services, Westminster Canterbury Retirement Center
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Screenshot of how Energy Manager can empower facility and energy managers alike to identify utility waste, better prioritize action and make smarter operational decisions with centralized management of utilities.
Benefits

Reduce Waste. Maximize Savings.

Brightly Energy Manager is an energy management solution that provides facility managers with centralized views of utility costs and usage data, to better identify anomalies and opportunities for savings. 

Save money

Save money and reduce waste with centralized utility data

Track initiatives

Track and action energy-saving initiatives with project checklists

Stop wastage

Improve energy usage and stop waste across buildings

Automate

Improve operational efficiencies with automated bill entry

Screenshot of how Energy Manager can monitor all energy consumption and related work from a single dashboard with trends, costs and usage for all your utilities for a real-time view of what matters most to you

Centralized dashboards

  • Monitor all energy consumption from a single dashboard
  • Customize your views to meet team’s needs
  • Identify anomalies in energy usage
     
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Enhanced data analysis

  • Track and compare usage across buildings
  • View and compare actual energy spend versus what you should be spending
  • Identify and quickly address spikes in utility usage
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Advanced reporting

  • Make more-informed, data-based energy decisions
  • Configure views to chart & graph use/cost, budget data, billing information, avoided costs
  • Communicate energy findings, successes to stakeholders, community
Screenshot of how Energy manager provides tools to measure the return on investment on energy-saving capital projects, create checklists for walkthroughs and special events or track energy maintenance issues

Streamlined initiatives tracking

  • Measure ROI on energy-saving capital projects
  • Track energy maintenance issues
  • Centralize and manage energy-saving checklists
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Tracked carbon emissions

  • Break down CO2 emissions by fuel source
  • Rank facilities by emissions levels
  • Track historical emissions by facilities
Screenshot of how Energy Manager can save you time by leveraging Energy Manager’s import tools, automated bill entry, interval data recording and electronic data interchange (EDI) services and  get all of your utilities in one place without the redundant data entry

Automated utility bill entry

  • Track all your utilities in one, centralized location
  • Import data with internal data recording and electronic data services
Screenshot of how Energy Manager can empower facility and energy managers alike to identify utility waste, better prioritize action and make smarter operational decisions with centralized management of utilities.

Turn Your Energy Data into Action

Want to learn more about how Energy Manager can help you cut costs, boost efficiency, and reach your sustainability goals?

Education

Maximize every dollar spent

Reduce your building’s energy consumption, ensuring smooth operations within your school’s annual budget.

Government

Create a more sustainable community

Improve your team’s operational efficiency and reduce energy costs to better manage your city’s budget.

Manufacturing

Boost efficiency & reduce costs

Maintain your plant’s regulatory compliance and drive real cost savings across product lines and operations.

Healthcare

Enhance facility compliance & efficiency

Cut hospital utility costs and improve facility safety, compliance, and performance.

Clubs and Associations

Optimize resource allocation

Cut energy waste and save on costs, to provide quality member experiences.

Energy Management FAQs

What is energy management?

Energy management is the process of understanding, analyzing, and optimizing energy usage across buildings and facilities. Centralizing and examining utilities data such as water, electric, gas, and sewer allows organizations to identify opportunities to monitor, control and optimize use to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize environmental impact.

What is energy management software?

Energy management software is a digital solution or tool that helps organizations monitor, analyze, and optimize energy usage across a facility or collection of buildings. By digitizing and centralizing utility data – such as electricity, gas, water – the software provides real-time insights to help identify waste, where and how to reduce costs. This information is typically used to help teams make decisions on managing assets and equipment, financial planning, capital planning, and sustainability initiatives.

What types of industries use energy management software?

Energy management software is used across a range of organizations and industries, all with the aim of reducing utility costs. These include educational institutions such as school districts and universities, healthcare systems including hospitals and senior living communities, manufacturing facilities, government agencies and municipalities, and commercial real estate firms.

Who uses energy management software?

While it ranges on the industry, energy management software is typically used by facilities management, industrial operators, data center teams, energy managers, sustainability teams, and real estate property managers.

Why is energy management software important?

Energy management software is critical for organizations to centralize siloed utility consumption data and trends to help improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and meet sustainability goals. This streamlined information helps facilities and energy teams make data-driven decisions relating to compliance and regulations, financial and operational risks, asset lifecycle management and capital planning.

What types of utilities are tracked and managed with energy management software?

Energy management software monitors and analyzes usage across electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, propane, coal, wood, steam, water, wastewater, irrigation, and refuse.

What are the key features of energy management software?

In helping organizations monitor, control, and optimize energy usage, key features include centralized dashboards for holistic, real-time view; utility bill management and automated utility processes such as bill entry, anomaly detection for accuracy; energy monitoring such as pattern tracking to identify efficiencies; and project tracking to track initiatives and ROI.

How do I choose the best energy management software for my team and organization?

Key considerations in choosing the right energy management software include defining clear objectives that align with your organization’s needs; evaluating the core feature set, such as real-time monitoring and utility bill validation; key integrative capabilities into your CMMS, IoT or capital planning solutions; scalability and configurability to grow as you grow; and proven vendor expertise and support in your industry.