Our Menu of Services
Our goal is to help manage costs and eliminate waste of electricity, heating fuels, water and sewer usage for your school district.
At EduCon, we utilize ENERGYSTAR®’s no-cost Portfolio Manager® platform to track and improve energy efficiency across your school districts’ properties. We leverage this application’s robust capabilities to create insightful reports — specifically tailored to school districts. With deep experience in public school facilities management, we know what information is valuable to track, review and analyze. Once reports are generated, our team reviews each report and highlights any areas of concern or opportunity.
EduCon’s Utility Management
& Reporting Solutions
SETUP PORTFOLIO MANAGER
EduCon will set up a Portfolio Manager account for your district with required information for all facilities and corresponding utility accounts (electricity, natural gas, propane, water, sewer, and stormwater). EduCon will upload the most current 12 months of utilities data. Following the set-up phase, EduCon will provide your district with full access to Portfolio Manager and additional training on the system.
*set-up is required for Reporting and Data Analysis
DATA ENTRY
EduCon will enter all data into Portfolio Manager monthly upon receiving scanned images or digital invoices from a designated point of contact within your school system. We will maintain a digital file of invoices and utility billing information we receive in a shared file system, organized chronologically by service and site.
REPORTING & DATA ANALYSIS
EduCon will utilize its Energy Intelligence reporting system to issue standard monthly reports with data extracted from Portfolio Manager. Baseline comparisons will typically be made to current period vs. the same period, 12 months earlier. By monitoring and analyzing utility usage, we have identified:
Billing errors
Excess usage, such as equipment running unnecessarily when buildings are not in use
Critical maintenance issues, such as a spike in water costs due to hidden water leaks
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Once utility invoices have been entered each month, EduCon will provide a thorough analysis to identify areas of concern including unusual usage or costs, upward or downward trends, the impact of shutdowns, etc. If additional diagnostics and/or remedial work is warranted, we will provide action-based recommendations. EduCon issues reports within two months of usage, provided that all utility invoices are received in a timely manner.
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When set-up has been completed in Portfolio Manager, EduCon will utilize the Energy Intelligence reporting system to generate an annual utilities report for the latest 12-month period in the database. Annual reports will be issued thereafter, at the conclusion of each school year, provided that initial and renewal agreements are in effect.
Custom analysis reports or report modifications may be designed and included in our reporting service. Our team can provide an estimate for additional reports on a case-by-case basis.
ENERGY AUDITS
Our team of facility management and energy conservation professionals are available for on-site visits at schools. Energy audits are helpful and, at times, necessary to determine the cause of excess usage or develop energy conservation recommendations.
ENERGY STAR CERTIFICATION
Portfolio Manager assigns an energy score for each building, which allows us to benchmark each school with other K-12 schools in the region and determine eligibility for the ENERGY STAR certification. Obtaining this certification can be accomplished via a formal ENERGY STAR process recognizing school achievement. EduCon can prepare applications and arrange required on-site professional engineer’s verification.
