Method and system for tracking project impacts, event impacts, and energy savings

A method of tracking progress of an energy impacting event at a facility using an energy management system, wherein one or more energy consuming endpoints of the facility are sub-metered and time series channel data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints is transmitted to the energy management system, the method comprising:

• creating a project within the energy management system by entering project definition attributes, the project definition attributes including at least a site identifier, a project identifier, a start time, and one or more identifiers associated with channel data from one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints;
• associating a set of time series baseline data with the time series channel data of the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the baseline data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time before the project start time;
• creating a set of time series goal data and associating it with the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the goal data having time stamp attributes spanning a set period of time on or after the project start time during which impacts are to be calculated, wherein each data point in the set of time-series goal data has a corresponding data point in the set of time series baseline usage data;
• receiving actual time series data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the actual time series data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time on or after the project start time;
• determining a set of energy impact values by calculating the difference between one or more data points in the set of actual time-series data and the corresponding one or more data points in the set of time series baseline data;
• determining whether one or more of the energy impact values of the set of energy impact values exceeds the corresponding one or more data points of the set of time series goal data;
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• simultaneously displaying the time-series baseline data, the time series goal data, the actual time series data, and an indication of whether each of the one or more of the energy impact values exceeds the corresponding one or more data points of the set of time series goal data.

A method of tracking financial progress of an energy impacting event at a facility using an energy management system, wherein one or more energy consuming endpoints of the facility are sub-metered and time series channel data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints is transmitted to the energy management system, the method comprising:

• creating a project within the energy management system by entering project definition attributes, the project definition attributes including at least a site identifier, a project identifier, a start time, one or more identifiers associated with channel data from one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, one or more cash outflow values, a discount rate, and an energy cost rating formula;
• associating a set of time series baseline data with the time series channel data of the one or more energy consuming endpoints, the baseline data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time before the project start time;
• creating a set of time series goal data and associating it with the channel data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the goal data having time stamp attributes spanning a set period of time on or after the project start time during which the project energy impact is be calculated, wherein each data point in the set of time series goal data has a corresponding data point in the set of time series baseline data;
• receiving actual time series data associated with the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the actual time series data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time on or after the project start time;
• determining a set of actual energy impact values by calculating the difference between one or more data points in the set of actual time series data and the corresponding one or more data points in the set of time series baseline data;
• determining a set of an expected energy impact values by calculating the difference between one or more data points in the set of goal time series data and corresponding one or more data points in the set of time series baseline data;
• calculating one or more actual cash inflow values by applying the set of actual energy impact values to the energy cost rating formula;
• calculating one or more expected cash inflow values by applying the set of expected energy goal impact values to the energy cost rating formula;
• calculating an actual net project cash flow by summing the one or more actual cash inflow values and the one or more cash outflow values;
• calculating an expected net project cash flow by summing the one or more expected cash inflow values and the one or more cash outflow values;
• calculating an actual financial metric using the actual net project cash flow and the discount rate;
• calculating an expected financial metric using the expected net project cash flow and the discount rate;
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• displaying an indication of whether the actual financial metric meets or exceeds the expected financial metric.

A computer program product for tracking progress of an energy impacting event at a facility using an energy management system, wherein one or more energy consuming endpoints of the facility are sub-metered and time series channel data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints is transmitted to the energy management system, comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied in the computer usable medium for causing an application program to execute on a computer system, the computer readable program code means comprising:
• computer readable program code for creating a project within the energy management system by entering project definition attributes, the project definition attributes including at least a site identifier, a project identifier, a start time, and one or more identifiers associated with channel data from one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints;
• computer readable program code for associating a set of time series baseline data with the time series channel data of the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the baseline data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time before the project start time;
• computer readable program code for creating a set of time series goal data and associating it with the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the goal data having time stamp attributes spanning a set period of time on or after the project start time during which impacts are to be calculated, wherein each data point in the set of time-series goal data has a corresponding data point in the set of time series baseline usage data;
• computer readable program code for receiving actual time series data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the actual time series data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time on or after the project start time;
• computer readable program code for determining a set of energy impact values by calculating the difference between one or more data points in the set of actual time-series data and the corresponding one or more data points in the set of time series baseline data;
• computer readable program code for determining whether one or more of the energy impact values of the set of energy impact values exceeds the corresponding one or more data points of the set of time series goal data;
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• computer readable program code for simultaneously displaying the time-series baseline data, the time series goal data, the actual time series data, and an indication of whether each of the one or more of the energy impact values exceeds the corresponding one or more data points of the set of time series goal data.

A computer program product for tracking financial progress of an energy impacting event at a facility using an energy management system, wherein one or more energy consuming endpoints of the facility are sub-metered and time series channel data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints is transmitted to the energy management system, comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied in the computer usable medium for causing an application program to execute on a computer system, the computer readable program code means comprising:
• computer readable program code for creating a project within the energy management system by entering project definition attributes, the project definition attributes including at least a site identifier, a project identifier, a start time, one or more identifiers associated with channel data from one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, one or more cash outflow values, a discount rate, and an energy cost rating formula;
• computer readable program code for associating a set of time series baseline data with the time series channel data of the one or more energy consuming endpoints, the baseline data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time before the project start time;
• computer readable program code for creating a set of time series goal data and associating it with the channel data from the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the goal data having time stamp attributes spanning a set period of time on or after the project start time during which the project energy impact is be calculated, wherein each data point in the set of time series goal data has a corresponding data point in the set of time series baseline data;
• computer readable program code for receiving actual time series data associated with the one or more sub-metered energy consuming endpoints, the actual time series data having time stamp attributes spanning a period of time on or after the project start time;
• computer readable program code for determining a set of actual energy impact values by calculating the difference between one or more data points in the set of actual time series data and the corresponding one or more data points in the set of time series baseline data;
• computer readable program code for determining a set of an expected energy impact values by calculating the difference between one or more data points in the set of goal time series data and corresponding one or more data points in the set of time series baseline data;
• computer readable program code for calculating one or more actual cash inflow values by applying the set of actual energy impact values to the energy cost rating formula;
• computer readable program code for calculating one or more expected cash inflow values by applying the set of expected energy goal impact values to the energy cost rating formula;
• computer readable program code for calculating an actual net project cash flow by summing the one or more actual cash inflow values and the one or more cash outflow values;
• computer readable program code for calculating an expected net project cash flow by summing the one or more expected cash inflow values and the one or more cash outflow values;
• computer readable program code for calculating an actual financial metric using the actual net project cash flow and the discount rate;
• computer readable program code for calculating an expected financial metric using the expected net project cash flow and the discount rate;
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• computer readable program code for displaying an indication of whether the actual financial metric meets or exceeds the expected financial metric.