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e-Bench is a comprehensive energy & utility management system that combines targeting monitoring, benchmarking and simulation within a single package. Recently ranked as one of the worrld's leading EECA packages it has sophisticated algorithms that model how buildings and processes operate and use these to determine the efficiency. It also supports full GHG reporting and supply chain management in accordance with ISO 14064.
The software and evaluation systems are patented in the EU, US, Canada, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand
http://www.e-bench.com
The Rodney District Council first subscribed to e-bench in 2008, in a bid to put some order into the organisation's energy management process, and to better understand where the Council's annual NZD$2 million spend on electricity was going. Since that time the organisation has been learning how to get the most out of the e-bench tool, which certainly delivers with regards to providing accurate measuring and monitoring feedback. At the push of a button we can create easy to interpret graphs and spreadsheets, enabling us to undertake more comprehensive analysis of energy uses at a range of scales, from the site and site group level, right up to the whole organisation. We are now rolling out access to e-bench to our libraries managers, our water and wastewater engineers, holiday parks, leisure centre, and traffic engineers, so that everybody in the organisation starts to develop an interest and take greater responsibility for how energy is being used, and also what saving energy means practically to their bottom line. And the results? In the first quarter of this year RDC achieved energy savings across the organisation of 5.8% year on year. That has meant bottom line savings of just under $30,000 in the first quarter of the year. Perhaps more importantly however, is the confidence that senior management gets from seeing these results in an easy to understand and visual way. This in turn makes it easier to get support for doing more ambitious programmes in the future. I can thoroughly recommend e-bench to other medium and large energy users, and Geoff and his team offer a personable and committed service experience to compliment the practical mertis of the tool itself. Damon Birchfield Energy Management and Environment Officer Rodney District Council
