Multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) from different vendors make managing and analyzing renewable energy data difficult. DERNetSoft, a provider of energy resource management solutions, helped centralize and visualize one healthcare customer’s energy data by creating a data platform using CONNECT platform services. The healthcare customer needed to reduce energy consumption across its 1,200 buildings. DERNetSoft integrated the customer’s cloud and on-site data, so the customer could track and analyze energy use from different renewable energy sources. As a result, the customer has saved millions of dollars (USD) in energy costs.
“We’re using [CONNECT] as a main data store, which is perfect to also integrate data from other cloud service platforms.”
—Alberto Colombo
Founder and President, DERNetSoft
Challenges
- Need to reduce energy consumption across 1,200 buildings
- On-site DERs, such as solar and fuel cells, were difficult to track and manage, with multiple DERs managed by different vendors
- Lack of digitization, data availability and standardization across multiple utility territories
Solution
- Deployed CONNECT platform services to collect, track and analyze data from DERs and other energy sources
Results
- Healthcare customer saved millions of dollars (USD) in energy costs and reimbursements for overproduction, with possible further savings of tens of millions of dollars if all identified measures are implemented
- Enabled healthcare customer’s management teams to provide assurance that DER investments are the right size and scope
- Expanded low-cost/high-impact opportunities for customer to operate more efficiently
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