UtilityDirect
Online Utility Tracking, Analysis and Reporting
UtilityDirect is a powerful, online utility tracking, management, analysis and reporting tool that audits, tracks and analyzes utility consumption and costs to identify utility savings opportunities.
UtilityDirect helps reduce utility bills by identifying utility waste, cost and meter problems, billing errors and savings opportunities, which can save at least 5% of your annual utility budget, an average of $10 per student annually.
UtilityDirect has become the standard tool used by educational organizations for managing energy costs and consumption based upon utility bill analysis. In fact, UtilityDirect users represent the largest single database of educational energy consumption information in America! Because effectively managing energy costs starts and ends with utility bill analysis, UtilityDirect provides a solid foundation for any energy management and conservation program.
"SchoolDude's UtilityDirect system is giving us an extremely easy and very affordable way to measure and track all of our utility data. We currently have over 1,800 meters in our system. SchoolDude manages the system – and all of the data loading – on a monthly basis at a cost that we cannot do with our own staff. After our first year of loading our utility data and building our baseline, I believe this good, reliable information will allow us to save $500,000 next year on our utilities. I highly recommend SchoolDude's UtilityDirect to every school system."
Bob Bittner
Wake County Public School System
Raleigh, NC
137,706 Students
Value to your Administration
- Tracks and monitors bills for electric, fuel oil, propane, water, natural gas, sewer, trash/waster, telephone and more
- Checks utility bills using fifteen formulas to identify usage and cost problems
- Allows energy usage and cost comparisons by square foot between similar buildings
- Preserves budgets
- Reduces the cost of maintaining facilities
Value to the Facility team
- Helps improve efficiency by identifying utility waste, cost and meter problems, billing errors and savings opportunities
- Allows you to check bills for accuracy prior to payment
- Reduces utility usage and costs by identifying savings opportunities
- Enables quick comparison and analysis of utility and usage data with customizable trend reports
- Advanced energy management savings identification reports help determine hidden savings opportunities
Benefits
- Save at least 5% of your annual utility budget
- Save an average of $10 per student annually through improved efficiency and savings opportunities
- Enables sharing of usage data with building occupants for conservation initiatives
Features & Functions
- Tracks and monitors bills for electric, fuel oil, propane, water, natural gas, sewer, trash/waste, telephone and more
- Enables fast and easy bill entry
- Enables simple comparison and analysis of utility billing data
- Checks bills fifteen different ways to identify usage and cost problems
- Provides an audit trail for tracking savings opportunities you identify
- Tracks various account and building attributes, including region, cost center, HVAC system and building construction types, operation hours and more
- Enables simple creation and evaluation of utility usage and cost budgets
- Allows energy usage and cost comparisons by square foot between similar buildings
- Tracks basic utility information, including billing periods, total consumption, demand (for electric) and cost
- Includes optional, detailed utility information tracking to record on-off peak data, taxes, service charges, generation charges, transition charges, distribution charges, power factor and more
- Includes powerful search functionality for finding data quickly and easily
- Tracks all utility vendors and related contact information
- Records essential information associated with utility accounts
- Tracks building information, including square footage
- Allows export of utility data to any spreadsheet
Enhanced Capabilities
- Features optional UDPlus data entry service where SchoolDude enters utility bill data into your UtilityDirect system for you (for an additional fee)
- Provides various optional weather analysis reports to normalize energy usage according to weather data (for an additional fee)
Client Success
Sherman ISD (Sherman, Texas)
"Our old software only captured cost avoidance savings, not real cash dollar savings. UtilityDirect captures the most useful data for me and our administration: consumption cost per building, per square foot and per student. SchoolDude had the solution that met our needs."
-Chuck Edwards
Sherman ISD; 6,562 students
Wake County Public School System (Raleigh, North Carolina)
"SchoolDude's UtilityDirect system is giving us an extremely easy and very affordable way to measure and track all of our utility data. We currently have over 1,800 meters in our system. SchoolDude manages the system – and all of the data loading – on a monthly basis at a cost that we cannot do with our own staff. After our first year of loading our utility data and building our baseline, I believe this good, reliable information will allow us to save $500,000 next year on our utilities. I highly recommend SchoolDude's UtilityDirect to every school system."
-Bob Bittner
Wake County Public School System; 137,706 Students
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