Energy Service Providers

Retroficiency’s Building Efficiency Intelligence Platform provides energy service companies (ESCOs), facilities managers, engineers and other professionals with solutions that:

Dramatically Reduce Energy Auditing Time and Expense

Retroficiency automates the energy auditing process, whether you are seeking accurate retrofit recommendations with limited building data or performing a more detailed audit. Retroficiency’s Automated Energy Audit solution allows auditors to input the building information they have available and further calibrate their recommendations as they verify specific building characteristics.

Along the way, Retroficiency’s on-demand data analytics software platform streamlines data collection, makes complex ECM benefit calculations and recommendations optimized for target goals, and builds customized audit reports – improving a timely and costly process by up to 80%.
Improve Performance Contract Bidding and Execution

While performance contracts can provide steady long-term revenue streams and reduce barriers for customers to implement efficiency programs, they can also be risky undertakings for ESPs. During the sales process, ESPs are expected to do sample walkthroughs and high level audits without any promise of any future business. Even once they solidify the contract, there are substantial ongoing costs to evaluating the best opportunities.

Retroficiency enables ESPs to conduct accurate, inexpensive initial audits across multiple locations during the bid process without ever visiting a single building. Once a contract is secured, the Retroficiency platform is flexible and detailed enough to accept more granular inputs, thereby increasing the accuracy of the recommendations and reducing the time needed to analyze them. Then, as new technologies emerge and improve throughout the contract lifetime, Retroficiency can automatically update and evaluate these measures, and instantly alert ESPs to new savings opportunities – turning a currently static assessment process into a dynamic customer engagement cycle.
Optimize the Sales Process

Sales professionals evaluating opportunities are challenged to identify those with the best potential, provide the information RFPs require and differentiate their organization’s services. Retroficiency is used by Fortune 500 ESP sales teams to focus on opportunities where their organizations can provide the most value and stand out by providing efficiency insights that the competition simply can’t match.

Retroficiency helps energy service companies (ESCOs), facility management firms, large commercial property owners, and related professionals evaluate thousands of building energy efficiency measures in minutes.
Prioritize high potential buildings in a large portfolio

Evaluating potential opportunities across large, dispersed portfolio can often be unmanageable and prohibitively expensive.

Retroficiency’s Virtual Energy Assessment provides the power to more quickly, accurately and cost-effectively identify high potential commercial buildings and isolate the specific sources of high energy consumption. Using utility building interval consumption data, we prioritize underperforming assets across a commercial portfolio and disaggregate end-use loads to generate low or no cost operational and initial retrofit recommendations.

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Energy consumption interval data is a record of a building's energy consumption levels, with readings made at regular intervals throughout the day, every day, over an extended period of time. Interval data can be obtained from utility company meters, building control systems or increasingly from energy service provider- or building owner-installed smart meters.

Building asset data is information related to general building characteristics and energy systems in the building. This could include basic information such as the year built or facility use type (e.g., office, warehouse, etc.), to more specifics, such as heating ventilation and air-conditioning systems, lighting and lighting controls, envelope and windows.

Fortune 100 Company

A well-known Fortune 100 finance company wanted to gain LEED status for all of its buildings. Three of their buildings presented a challenge as they were unable to get ENERGY STAR rated, a requirement for LEED certification. The company hired external engineering experts who identified 15 improvements for each building that would help them meet their goals. Retroficiency was engaged to demonstrate their technology to develop recommendations and help validate the external company's findings with a calibrated energy model.

Using proprietary technology with minimal information from on-site facility managers (and no site visits), Retroficiency was able to construct and calibrate energy models. By running these models against our database of thousands of energy conservation measures, we were able to offer recommendations that increased ENERGY STAR ratings by an average of 31% and had less than 2 year paybacks. In terms of annual savings, we found more than $85k in operational changes and $45k in physical retrofits. Once we had calibrated energy models we showed that 12 out of the 15 retrofits recommended by the external engineers (and almost $2M in spend) had paybacks greater than 67 years and were not necessary to meet the desired goals.

Leading Facility Management Company

Retroficiency was asked to evaluate 3 buildings totaling 1.2M square feet. The goal was to test the ability of our platform to do high-level quick evaluations of multiple buildings. In addition, they wanted to calibrate the energy models on all three buildings to test the depth of the analysis and performance of the models.

To start, the facility management company was given online access to the Retroficiency platform and spent about 30 minutes entering high-level information about the buildings. Within 3 hours of submitting this information, the energy managers were sent an email notifying them that their initial reports were available. These reports showed combined annual savings opportunities of $883k at the 3 buildings � all with less than 6 year paybacks.

Next, the energy managers were able to access, evaluate, and change the inferred data on all of their buildings. After submitting these changes, the energy models were updated. Retroficiency then used 12 months of utility data to calibrate the models to ensure accuracy. The ECM database was again run against these models and new savings and cost numbers were produced.

The process from start to detailed output took 5 days and did not require site visits. The software found more than $2.5M in annual savings with all paybacks less than 6 years.

Energy Service Providers

Dramatically Reduce Energy Auditing Time and Expense

Improve Performance Contract Bidding and Execution

Optimize the Sales Process

Prioritize high potential buildings in a large portfolio

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Fortune 100 Company

Leading Facility Management Company