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Verisae— National Energy Manager, Multi-Site Retailer

“As the costs of power increase and demand response becomes more of an issue across the board, the ability for me to effectuate an enterprise-wide control system is critical to my company’s performance and the sustainability of increasing profit margins."

The most critical information I need as the Energy Manager of a large food retail chain is accurate detail regarding what each store is spending per square foot at any given time on electricity, gas and water. Verisae’s Enterprise Energy Management feature allows me to access this information from my desk at a moment’s notice. Not only that, but the program provides me with detailed historical billing data identifying what my company is spending per site, per month. The detail is so specific that I am able to generate lists reflecting, for argument’s sake, my top ten energy expenditures at each of the store locations as a point of comparison. This gives me a benchmark for identifying problem stores."

EEM - Enterprise Energy Management

Knowing key details of the energy consuming equipment in your sites combined with historical
and real-time energy use is critical to measuring, modeling, and managing your energy use and
associated spend.

Energy is becoming a bigger part of the store budget everyday. Legislative changes and
continued political pressure surrounding energy, and the fact that the cost of energy is continuing to rise - pose a risk of unexpected budget overruns and lower profits. At the same time, managing a portfolio of energy use and costs is becoming more complex.

Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) provides historical utility data, real time energy monitoring
and reporting, critical system monitoring, weather data, an incentive library and site-specific
asset energy attributes.

For the first time, multi-site clients can have a comprehensive view of their entire energy
portfolio across their entire enterprise, at each site, associated with the specific assets at that
site and delivered to multiple users anywhere in the world.

Our clients use Verisae EEM to:

• Verify and review utility bills
• Track real-time energy use at each site
• Procure the best energy rates for their sites
• Track Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions
• Use critical monitoring to dispatch energy-related service events
• Allow Verisae RDM Controls to populate energy data screens in EEM
• Track contractor performance
• Take advantage of available rebates and incentives locally, statewide, and nationally
• Track and manage their impact on emissions and the environment
• Benchmark their sites based upon utility, energy use, key asset attributes and maintenance events

Our clients benefit by:

• Finding and reducing utility bill errors and exceptions
• Communicating the costs and importance of energy awareness throughout their organizations
• Acting quickly on service related energy increases and avoid on-going inefficiencies
• Holding their contractors and service personnel accountable for service related energy increases
• Taking advantage of numerous and often under-utilized rebates and incentives
• Getting prepared for the possibility of carbon taxes or emissions exchanges
• Using demand response to take advantage of incentives or market changes

Historical utility billing data, analysis, and accounting:

Using the EEM system clients are able to easily capture every data point from their utility bill and track those bills. Thus our clients can manage by exception - digging into only the bills that may indicate a billing error, use that is out of range, a rate change, a meter change, or other pertinent changes that can cost money.

Billing data also enables clients to create site-to-site benchmarking, establish budgets, and in conjunction with Verisae's other modules, correlate energy use to maintenance events and procurement decisions.

Energy Services

It should not be a surprise that energy is becoming a larger and more critical component of the profitability of your business. For grocery retail, next to labor and benefits, energy is largest operating expense.

Without a strong plan to manage energy across an enterprise - in design, operations, maintenance, and information, your current profits may be at risk.

Verisae offers the following services as part of Enterprise Energy Management:

Capturing important energy attributes:

This innovative survey process enables users to capture important energy attributes from each site. As in our work order process management, Verisae gathers site-specific and asset-specific attributes associated with energy. This is the backbone of being able to mine your data for important energy-reducing decisions.

Imagine being able to view a report listing all sites with T12 lighting across your enterprise? Instead of sending multiple crews or contractors to sites and the process taking six months, Verisae's system captures this information in seconds, and you then can use it to affect meaningful energy projects.

Imagine being able to benchmark and compare multiple sites not only by energy use and size of the site, but specific energy characteristics? Incorporate this knowledge with our other offerings like Enterprise Refrigerant Manager or our Enterprise Energy Management Incentive Library, and you will have the power to manage, measure, model and REDUCE your energy use and impact.

Real-Time Energy Monitoring:

With the EEM system clients are able to view the real-time energy use within their sites, individually and accumulated company-wide. Utilizing on-site hardware like Verisae RDM Controls and sending information concerning energy use to Verisae's portal, our clients can pin-point sites that are out of the normal range, track the real-time success of energy projects, and determine the best rate structure for their day-to-day and hour-to-hour energy profile.

Professional Services:

Besides the tools offered above, Verisae has well over 100 years of combined experience in retail and energy. We know how utilities, stores, and contractors work and the effects they can have on energy use.