Advanced Utility Meter Data Services
Your Energy Check-Up
Access to AMI (advanced meter information) utility
consumption data has heretofore been a service
rented by customers from their local utility both in
terms of content and availability. Even though
facilities have been installing advanced electric
metering, the access to that data is has traditionally
been non-existent at the Installation level. And,
where access exists the question is, is the data
valid?
Better access to detailed utility data can provide
timely insights into consumption habits and enable
Customers to validate their energy savings needs.
Analysis of facility usage often helps define and
emphasize the value of pursuing energy efficiency
opportunities.
It is expected that this data will provide an
important means for Facility Energy Managers to
perform their duties for reporting and planning. But
the typical uses for this data have been as a static
datapoint of the building’s usage. Energy managers
want to use the data for enhanced analysis
purposes. So, do you have the right data? do you
have the right reporting?
Energy Check-up Assessment: There are
four components to helping a client with their AMI
data,
 Determining data integrity – is all of the
interval data that should have been collected
actually in the database
 Evaluating data validity – what percentage of
the database is missing values, valid values,
and valid zeros; are the valid values
representative of the true meter consumption
(correct multipliers)
 Assessment report – detail what is there, is
the data correct, what is missing, and why is it
missing and what are the causes; based on the
client defined objectives, is different data
needed for reporting?
 Recommendations – suggested changes to
hardware, communications, data processing to
improve data capture and utilization and data
accessibility
Energy Check-Up Building Performance:
Once you have the data, now how can you use it
more effectively. First, we need to understand how
you want to use the data, what answers do you
want from the data? How often do you want to
have reporting? What reporting results would help
you weekly, monthly, and annually?
 Typical results are to generate consumption per
sqft. These are Static Building Performance
Metrics. But we can go beyond the basic
utilization metric and use deeper analysis to
generate insights as to how the energy is
consumed, when and by what?
 The next level of analysis is for Energy
Efficiency Opportunities. Here is where the
data is sliced into operation parameters to
identify energy consumption profiles that tell a
story about what and how energy is used. Does
you facility use more energy on a federal
holiday than on a Saturday?
 Lastly, we can use the profile consumption data
to develop an Energy Resiliency Generation
Portfolio Plan and define when and how much
energy is needed, which helps in creating the
generation portfolio that best serves the
facility’s needs.
AMI for all utility consumption needs
natural gas, water,
steam, as well as electricity
and specific equipment
Collect all the data, Process the data to
ensure it is accurate, and make it
accessible for reporting & graphical
analysis
Zerbco Professional Services
David Zerba, CEM & CQM
503-277-9429
zerbco@comcast.net