EnergyCAP can calculate the cost avoidance (the dollar savings) attributed to energy management projects by comparing today’s bills with a pre-retrofit ‘baseline’ year. Comparisons are automatically adjusted for billing period length, weather, energy unit prices, and other variables in accordance with the U.S. Department of Energy’s ‘whole building method’ of energy savings measurement and verification. (see http://www.evo-world.org/). We pioneered cost avoidance methodology in 1985, and it’s been used in tens of thousands of buildings over the last twenty years.

EnergyCAP uses statistical analysis to determine if each meter is weather sensitive, and if so, how much. Variable degree day balance point, deletion of outliers and baseline ‘tuning’ are included.

The Saving Explanation screen shows actual (raw) baseline, adjusted baseline, current bill and avoidance.

Each bill is ‘disaggregated’ into daily components of non-weather and weather loads to allow for a total auditing of savings calculations.