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Allocation Reports provide a summary of energy
usage for the report period as well as an itemized list
of allocated costs for the components included in the
reported level. Allocation Reports also include the
Fiscal Year-To-Date (FYTD) amount so that you can
track year to date costs for budget or performance
purposes. Figure 6 shows meters that make up the
Cost Center’s electric consumption.
Figure 6. Allocation Report for Cost Center.
Applications
Application solutions capabilities from Siemens
Industry, Inc. combined with the flexible InfoCenter
Suite platform and the unique organizational
capabilities of Utility Cost Manager provide reports
structured to meet your individual needs. Utility Cost
Manager delivers solutions to utility cost management
needs including:
Energy Use Analysis
The ability to have an accurate picture of utility
resource usage at a facility is an ongoing need that is
growing as deregulation sweeps across the country.
Most experts agree that collecting detailed energy
usage data is a critical step toward successful energy
procurement strategies in a deregulated utility market.
Utility Cost Manager can support energy use analysis
by:
• Reporting building load profiles for electricity,
water, gas, steam and other utilities for usage
tracking and baselines.
• Tracking usage to identify areas for energy
improvements to reduce facility resource costs.
• Documenting usage of major consuming
equipment to verify savings of capital
improvement projects.
• Using building load profiles to facilitate the energy
procurement process.
Performance Analysis
Access to historical utility usage information stored in
InfoCenter Suite provides information for in-depth
analysis, diagnostics and optimization of facility
operations. Load profiles are an excellent tool for
quickly evaluating the consistency of the facility’s
operation. Patterns are imperative for identifying both
areas for cost reduction and changing or decreasing
energy efficiency. Decreasing efficiency can be an
indication of mechanical problems that are wasting
energy. Utility Cost Manager supports Performance
Analysis by:
• Allowing you to track reporting period
consumption with year-to-date performance for
operational benchmarking.
• Reporting daily consumption values per utility
service, including value and time of maximum
demand.
Cost Allocation
Submetering a facility allows facility managers to track
usage of utilities at a new level of granularity. This
data can be combined with costing information about
the utility service to permit departmental accounting of
utilities. Costs are more equitably distributed
according to usage compared to traditional methods
of consumption based on square footage. Utility Cost
Manager supports cost allocation applications by:
• Allowing you to define meter data in a logical
structure to associate meters with a particular
user or department and allocate utility costs over
a group of users.
• Assigning average utility costs at the meter level
by effective date so that costs can be more
directly allocated.
• Offering flexible reporting and automatic
aggregation to capture and report costs at various
levels in the organization.
Web-based Energy Reporting
By combining Utility Cost Manager with APOGEE GO
for InfoCenter Suite, a Web-based energy reporting
system can easily be implemented. Web-based
implementation eliminates the need for client
applications on local computers and allows you to
access and run reports via the Internet/Intranet. This
capability is very useful in applications were UCM is
being used to provide load profiling on multiple sites