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EnergyDeck just introduced a new facility to the platform to help you keep on top of your consumption. You can now setup alerts on any meter so that you get notified when the consumption linked to that meter is outside of pre-defined limits. For example, if you have a building that typically consumes roughly 1000kWh of electricity every month, you can set up a few monthly alerts:
An upper limit at 1000kWh so that you are notified when the consumption goes above the average for any given month;
A lower limit at 800kWh so that you are notified when the consumption has been significantly below average for any given month;
An upper limit at 500kWh so that you get a notification when it goes past the half way point: if that point is reached after the 15th day of the month, you should be within limits for the remainder of that month; if it is reached before the 15th day of the month, you still have time to investigate and address over-consumption so that the month’s consumption falls within expected limits.
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The Internet was in a bit of a frenzy last night as Google announced that they acquired Nest for a cool $3.2 billion. Everybody from technology web sites like TechCrunch or The Register to general media like the BBC and The Guardian had something to say about it and analysis to offer. The original press release doesn’t say much so everything beyond this is speculation.At EnergyDeck, we have a team composed of former employees of Google and Opower among others, working on an innovative web-based solution for energy management in buildings. So it goes without saying that we’re rather excited about the news. However, I’d like to take a step back and look at the acquisition and potential implications for users from a pure data and technology standpoint.
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As we have nearly 1000 registered users on EnergyDeck, I thought I would share a very useful piece of insight into the use a cool feature that has been live on the platform for a few months now. This particular feature is an extension to our contract and tariff support and is all about making it easier for you to track costs that result from energy use.
Our initial contract and tariff implementation allowed you to group tariffs within contracts and assign a single charge to each tariff. Of course, this is not quite the way real life works. Most tariffs have more than one charge, there is a mix of consumption linked charges, standing charges and percentage based charges like VAT. So we added that in.
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Merry Christmas. It's been an amazing 2013 for EnergyDeck. Our team has been working tirelessly to deliver the real estate industry's leading engagement platform, collecting awards and signing some major customers. We're proud to announce our collaboration with East Midlands Housing, one of the largest social housing providers in the Midlands, bringing our total tally of clients to over 20.
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The latest update to EnergyDeck is primarilly about data, making it easier to feed raw meter readings into the system at one end and extracting useful high level information at the other end with minimal effort in between.
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Launched in May 2009 by Forum for the Future, the West of England Carbon Challenge (WECC) brought public and private organisations from across Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire together in a collective commitment to reduce their carbon emissions by 2.5% year-on-year, targeting a total reduction of 10% by 2012/13.In this time the network has grown from 10 founders to over 130 members, including the likes of BBC, Environment Agency, Triodos Bank, Yeo Valley and Wessex Water. While WECC fell a bit short of the overall group target, there have been notable successes with over 50% of members showing reductions in emissions and several showing drops of over 20%.
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EnergyDeck recently launched a YouTube channel so we can begin creating videos to help spread the word about EnergyDeck, show how it can be best used, and introduce the team behind it. The first video posted is already up, and does just this - providing a brief overview of EnergyDeck as a whole and the team (without Markus, unfortunately, who was on holiday at the time). It was created as part of our semi-final entry for the Cisco BIG Awards competition, and so is a great general introduction to the platform (plus we were required to stick to a time limit, so it’s not too long…)
New videos are already planned and on the way, please do subscribe so you can keep up to date with upcoming developments.
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EnergyDeck has been listed as an inspiring startup aiming to improve the world by Mashable, the leading online source for news, information and resources about digital innovation. In the article, Mashable lists 20 companies they see as changing the world we live in now, and the way we will live in the future.
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August has seen the arrival of Nicholas Mason, who joins the EnergyDeck team as Director of Business Development. Nic joins us from CBRE’s Energy & Sustainability Team where he was a senior E&S consultant providing carbon reporting and energy management services to companies such as Sainsbury’s, Nomura, C&A Europe and CBRE Global Investors. Prior to CBRE, Nic worked at Westminster City Council as their carbon, energy and sustainable procurement manager.
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The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that a brand new sub-menu appears under the Setup menu in EnergyDeck:
This new Contracts menu allows you to manage your energy supplier contracts and their associated tariffs. You can setup what contracts you have with what suppliers, specify details of the various tariffs under those contracts and link individual meters to each tariff. If a tariff changes, all meters linked to that tariff will automatically see the change and costs will be updated accordingly.
Keep reading for a quick introduction to the full functionality.
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Last week we participated in the Idea Idol competition of Green Monday's premier annual energy event: Green Corporate Energy 2013. Having made it through several stages of assessment, we were given the opportunity to pitch EnergyDeck to a panel of select judges and an audience consisting of highly experienced energy and sustainability porfessionals.
Continue reading to view the post of the Green Mondays team on the event, or read the original article here.
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If you've been entering meter readings, you may have noticed a new tab in the Meter Details view (the view you get when clicking on any meter name in the Setup section) called Regression Analysis. This post provides a quick tour of the new functionality.
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As promised in part 1, we've improved the organisation hierarchy features over the past few weeks. You can now run reports at any level of the organisation.
In Trend Analysis, you will now see up to three types of meters at every organisation level:
Grand Total: Sites Total + Sub-Units Total (in other words, Grand Total gives you the aggregate value of all total* meters at this level and all underlying levels of the organisation)
Sites Total: shows the aggregate value of all total meters from sites allocated to this level (but not at organisation levels underneath, e.g. for sub-units)
Sub-Units Total: shows the aggregate value of all total meters from sites allocated to underlying organisation units (but not for sites at the active organisation level)
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Following part 1 and part 2, I received the official assessment a while back. Here is a quick analysis of the content and subsequent research on my part.
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The Green Deal assessment I received is a 5 page PDF document. The very first thing that it tells me is that my current situation could be worse:
So my household consumes less than the typical household. This is probably due to my habits rather than the building being energy efficient: I am out during the day, I tend to switch lights off when I'm not in a room and will put a fleece on when it's a bit chilly rather than switch on the heating. The side effect of this, as the rest of the document attests, is that my saving potential is lower than average.
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You know how time goes fast when you're busy doing interesting things? The last month has just whooshed past at EnergyDeck and we released the new features we've been working on earlier this week. This is a quick tour of the most important ones.
Organisation Hierarchy
Any organisation of a certain size has a structure that is not flat. It is important for such organisations to be able to understand their energy data in a way that reflects their internal hierarchy so we added the ability for such customers to do just that. As a picture is worth a thousand words, here is an example of this in action:
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