Building Energy Management

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Free Business Energy and Carbon Monitoring Calculator

Simply add your meter readings weekly — no equipment, outlay or prior knowledge needed

Building energy monitoring with SMEasure will:

• Energy monitor one or more buildings

• Assess your savings potential

• Benchmark your building against national standards

• Rank the energy performance of your buildings

• Identify energy wastage against weather conditions

  Building Energy Management

  Building energy management directs measuring and managing energy in a building or business in order to maximise efficiency over time.
  It is well worth developing and practicing a building energy management plan because it:
  

  1. Saves you money as energy is a considerable cost for many businesses
  2. Reduces business risks as buffer you against energy prices rises and changing regulation
  3. Cuts your emissions, which is good for the environment and your business brand.

  This diagram sets out the different elements of building energy management and guides you through what you need to think about at each stage. There are links to further information under each of these headings.
  

  Monitor Energy monitoring requires you to collect meter-reading data over time and record it somewhere, like SMEasure. We then help you in analysing this data.

  Evaluate Analyse the impact of efforts Compare your actual energy use with benchmarks and targets, and evaluate any interventions you made to try and reduce energy use

  Plan Benchmark & target actions Once you know where energy is used and how, you need to plan for reductions

  Communicate Provide information to building users: in implementing any changes you will need to communicate with your colleagues, staff and senior management

  SMEasure comprises an important part of building energy management by providing a means to chart your energy use and for analysing your results. There are also benchmarking tools and a diagnostics section to help with planning.