EEB Hub Regional

1. Energy Usage Data System
Kevin Bricknell
Energy Data Services
Program Manager
EEB Hub Regional Data Management
Working Group Meeting
Thursday, October 25, 2012

2. ComEd:
Ø 3.8 Million Electric Customers in Chicago/
Northern IL
Ø 350,000 Business Customers
Energy Data Services:
ü Energy Insights Online (EIO) - Web Based Energy
Consumption Tracking
ü Energy Usage Data System (EUDS)
ü Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

3. Where Smart Ideas Started . . .
ü Provides incentives for energy
efficiency upgrades and
Smart Ideas Energy Efficiency Goals
equipment
(MWh)
ü Part of Illinois energy
1,000,000
legislation passed in 2007 800,000
600,000
ü Program implemented by 400,000
ComEd, Ameren Illinois and 200,000
the Illinois Department of 0
Commerce and Economic 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Opportunity (DCEO)
ü Now in fifth year of program
ü Ratepayer funded program

4. What is Smart Ideas for Your Business?
• Incentives for energy efficiency upgrades and
equipment
• Programs
• Retro-Commissioning
• Prescriptive and custom incentives
• Lighting rebates
• New Construction
• Data Services
• Whole building energy data (EUDS)
• Energy Insights Online (EIO)
• Opportunity Assessments

5. Drivers to Customer Benchmarking:
“Gateway” to Energy Efficiency
1) Commission Requirements / Market Transformation
2) Billing System - CIMS - Windows Based
3) Metering Practices in Service Territory:
Master metering versus metering & billing of tenants
-- ComEd compared to PECO
-- ComEd has buildings with 100+ billed tenants

6. Energy Usage Data
System (EUDS)
ü Enter your Portfolio of
Commercial Buildings
ü Automated End to End Data
Retrieval and Reporting
ü Export Usage Data for input
into Portfolio Manager
ü Secure System and Data
Transmission

7. Partnership with:
IT Contractors- On Site at ComEd
• Energy Industry Consultants with Hardware/Software expertise
• Begin March ‘08, Completed by June ‘08, Rollout October ’08
• Automated Benchmarking Enhancement added July 2009
ü Requirements captured from all key stakeholders
ü LCS Account Managers ü Customer (Building Mgr)
ü Marketing ü Customer Service Reps
ü IT (ComEd) ü Billing
ü EPA ü Legal

8. Functionality Overview
ü One Time and Recurring Data Requests
ü Tenant Verification
ü Whole Building Data Usage Totals per Month
(kWh)
ü Automatically submit energy usage data to
Portfolio Manager (ABS)

9. Login Screen:

11. Add Building:

12. Add Request:

13. Verify Tenants:

14. Data Returned
-- Submit to ENERGY STAR

15. Before After
(Manual Process) (Automated Process)
• Cost to Customer • No Cost to Customer
• Cycle Time 10-12 Days • Cycle Time 1-2 Days
• Labor Intensive • Completely Automated
• Limited Number of • Unlimited Number of
Requests Requests
• Data Provided Quarterly • Monthly Data
and/or Annually • Customer empowered to
• Customer contacts obtain data whenever
ComEd to obtain data needed

16. EUDS Results:
Total Manual vs Automated Requests
3500 5000%
Automated
3000
4590% 4500%
4000%
Percentage Increase
2500 Manual Requests
3500%
(prior to June 08)
3000%
2000
Requests
Automated Requests
2500% (Post June 08)
1500
2000% % Increase
1000 1500%
1000%
500
500%
Manual
0 0%
70 3283
Manual Buildings (<June 2008) vs Automated Buildings (>June 2008)
582 Building Managers Currently Using EUDS

17. EUDS Results:
Cumulative Number of Buildings Added Oct 2008 - August 2012
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Manual Buildings (<June 2008) vs Automated Buildings (>June 2008)
Over 25,000 months of data requests since June 2008

18. Thank You!
Kevin Bricknell, EDS Program Manager
(630) 437-3118
kevin.bricknell@ComEd.com