With the growth of artificial intelligence technologies, new innovations are continuously emerging and surprising us. Recently, ChatGPT, an intelligent language and text generation AI, has raised questions about its use and deployment in our society. What about the metaverse? Will it become a permanent feature of our lives, and what impact will it have on the energy sector, specifically on utilities?

Although the use of metaverses is still in its early stages, it is interesting to observe how Utilities could adopt this technology and support their customers in the near future. In this article, we highlight the potential of metaverses and some of the opportunities that utilities could seize to better distinguish themselves and be adaptable in an ever-changing energy and digital world.

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If you manage a large portfolio of buildings, you might be wondering how to define an accurate baseline for each one. A baseline helps you track energy use and set goals for reducing consumption.

But if you are still manually generating baselines for each building, it can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. Fortunately, there is a better way: you can now automatically generate baselines for your entire building portfolio using Dexma’s Bulk Baseline Generator.

In this blog post, we will show you why it is important to automatically generate baselines for your buildings to start saving energy and how to do it using Dexma’s Bulk Baseline Generator. 

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Saving energy is becoming a top priority for a growing number of businesses. However, calculating and presenting these savings can be a struggle for many professionals for various reasons such as shortage of time, expertise, or proper tools. This issue is addressed in this week’s article, highlighting two key findings from the yearly survey: confirmation of energy savings and rising energy costs. 

So if you are interested, keep reading!

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Over 250 professionals from different types of companies were interviewed for the Energy Management survey. A majority of respondents said they work in companies directly related to energy, including ESCOs, Utilities, and OEM companies as we have seen in the previous weeks’ articles.

However, we also had a quarter of responses from non-energy companies operating in the following sectors: service, real estate, industry, finance, tourism, education, logistics and others.

Of these companies, 28% said they had an Energy Manager role in their company. For the rest, profiles as diverse as facility managers, sustainability managers or simply project managers answered our questions. Even if these roles are not solely dedicated to energy, it is increasingly common for these profiles to devote a majority of their time to energy management.

If you are one of those companies struggling with energy management or looking for cues to improve your energy efficiency, the following infographic will give you an insight into the results of our survey. You can also find all the details in the full report of 13 pages, which we encourage you to download HERE.

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Utilities are players with whom we all interact. We all contract energy for our businesses and homes, and at some point, we want to compare offers to see who offers the best service. Last week we looked at the annual energy management survey responses and discussed the current challenges and objectives of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs).

We were glad to have gathered data from various Utilities in our Energy Management Report, which you can download here.

In this article, we want to focus on utilities. We will look at the market situation in the UK, and the customer attrition rate and also discuss the energy efficiency services that utilities can offer to their customers.

This article may reflect some of your key challenges if you work for a Utility company. So please let us know if you think what you find in this article is similar to one or more of your own experiences.

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If you follow us on social media or are an avid reader of our blog, you will have noticed that the results of our survey “The State of Energy Management 2022” have been released and that you can now download our report for free.

As in previous editions, this year we also focused on Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), the challenges they faced in 2022, their priorities for 2023 and the trends they believe will shape the energy landscape in the upcoming years. 

In this article, we will have a closer look at the results.

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The real estate market is a sector that can be qualified as volatile, this is no secret. It went from being a safe, easy and stable investment to high risk.  The increase in energy demand also has a huge impact not only on this sector but also on others, such as facility management.

In this article, we will have a look at what are the challenges faced by these two sectors.

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A gateway in tech-talk is a device that connects two different networks, allowing information to pass from a network to the Internet.

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Modern businesses, regardless of their types, depend on the extensive use of digital tools and infrastructure. In 2022, you would not see an employee without a laptop or a smart device in any given organisation. For the smooth use of these digital tools, having a communication network in place is a must. 

Indeed, contemporary facilities, from manufacturing plants to skyscrapers, rely on extensive communication networks to connect people and devices to the internet. As you can imagine, the energy consumption of these 24-hour networks is high: In 2021, the global electricity consumption of data centres amounted to 220-320 TWh, or about 0.9-1.3% of the global final electricity demand.  

In this article, we give you some tips to better manage the energy consumption of your communication networks. Whether your company is large or small, you will have to manage data that is often stored in a dedicated room. In this post, we will use data centres to give you concrete examples. Indeed, although these centres are only dedicated to the management and protection of data, you can draw inspiration from their management to reduce the energy consumption of your network devices. Keep reading! 

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On their own, SMEs don’t consume huge amounts of energy, but collectively, their energy demand is a different story. The IEA estimates SMEs consume around 13% of total global energy demand. Yet, approximately 30% of that demand could be eliminated by cost-effective energy efficiency measures, such as implementing energy management software. That would save more energy than Japan and Korea consume in a year!

Which business wouldn’t want that level of savings? Well, according to the Observatory of European SMEs, fewer than 30% of them in Europe have implemented any measures for conserving energy, and, even though 60% plan to reduce carbon impact, just 4% have a comprehensive approach to energy efficiency.

In this article, we will discuss the main challenges faced by SMEs in terms of energy management, the different energy-saving measures they can put in place and the support available. Finally, we will present the release of a new guide that can be downloaded free of charge and is specially designed for SMEs and ESCOs wishing to improve the energy efficiency of this type of company. Enjoy your reading!

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If you are considering incorporating an energy manager into your staff and you are not sure if this professional role will add value to your company, Enrique Pérez (Energy Efficiency Manager at CIRSA) will clarify your doubts in this article:

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