UtilityDirect - Online Utility Analysis Solution

Brief

UtilityDirect is a powerful, online utility management and reporting tool that audits, tracks and analyzes utility consumption and costs to identify savings opportunities.

UtilityDirect helps improve efficiency 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.

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"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 & Benefits

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

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)

Success

Client Success

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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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: Home Page

: Cost Per Day Report

: Cost Budgets Report

: Yearly Building Cost Comparison

: Weather Normalization Report

: Bill Entry Screen

: Bill Alerts

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