A significant portion of operating costs of large facilities are the utilities - electricity, natural gas, water etc. Here are the questions property owners typically want answered:
Is my billing correct today, and has it been correctly calculated in past years? How do I find out if I have been overcharged, and what is my recourse?
Do the various utility rates I have been assigned offer the best price for my types of buildings and their consumption patterns?
Why do my billing histories occasionally show unexplained fluctuations in consumption and cost?
How are my buildings performing, relative to each other, to their own histories, and to our competitors? Can I eliminate the influences of variables such as weather, occupied space & production?
Having installed an energy efficiency measure in my building, how do I know it is paying the kind of dividends the installer claimed it would?
Finn Projects is your resource for analyzing your utility costs, consumptions and rates. We have over 15 years of experience in the analysis of utility billing analysis to our clients. Here is our service:
We analyze the monthly utility bills with a view to detecting arithmetic errors, incorrect or misapplied billing multipliers, and missed rebate opportunities such as transformer allowances and power factor corrections.
We review the available utility rates for your building to ensure that you are being assigned the correct one and run "what-if" scenarios, as required, to evaluate alternate schedules.
We consult with you to establish a baseline period for comparing energy consumption and cost performance.
We track your buildings' billing histories over time and examine long-term trends in order to:
Generate benchmarks for comparison against similar facilities;
Flag short-term aberrations to allow for either a direct appeal to the utility for a credit or an opportunity to correct energy-use behaviour;
Adjust the baseline to account for variances in weather, production, occupancy.
We evaluate the savings generated by energy efficiency projects on a month-by-month basis. The baseline can be adjusted to take into account any modifications that are made to the facilities.
Having set up your building accounts, Finn Projects produces monthly and annual reports designed to keep you on top of your utility costs. We can even report on your reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) from your energy efficiency projects.
