Upcoming Webinar: Use the OpenEEmeter on Your Desktop (No Coding Required) to Calculate Normalized Metered Energy Savings for Efficiency Projects

When: Tuesday, September 19th 12:00 pm EST/9:00 am PST

For: Energy analysts who want to use CalTRACK methods for site-based M&V

This webinar is for M&V professionals, aggregators, regulators, and program managers interested in calculating weather normalized metered energy consumption and corresponding savings for individual projects or portfolios. If you understand the basic principles of M&V, you can use this free, open-source version of the OpenEEmeter without writing a single line of code.

This webinar will give you all the tools you need to use the OpenEEmeter to calculate normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC). The Open-Source OpenEEmeter runs the CalTRACK NMEC calculation methodology, and can now run locally on your desktop - no need for servers, python, or databases.  

In this Webinar, you will learn:  

• What the OpenEEmeter is and how it works;
• Why the CalTRACK methods are important for standardizing energy efficiency calculations;
• How you can deploy your own version of the OpenEEmeter by downloading the OpenEE CLI tool and calculating normalized metered energy savings for sets of efficiency projects.

Technical knowledge required: Comfort using your computer’s Terminal functionality; familiarity with pre/post weather-normalized energy savings calculation methods.

Register here.

Background:

Earlier this year, PG&E launched a residential Pay-for-Performance (P4P) pilot program that lays the groundwork for an entirely new approach to energy efficiency.

To make this new approach possible, PG&E and a working group of energy experts (including our company, OpenEE) agreed on a set of open methods to calculate payable energy savings. The first version of this set of methods was released this summer under the name CalTRACK.

Alongside CalTRACK, OpenEE is releasing a downloadable version of the OpenEEmeter, the open source library that includes a reference implementation of CalTRACK methods.

With this version of the OpenEEmeter, any analyst who has access to basic energy consumption data will be able to plug in numbers and get a quick and simple output of site-level energy savings. This tool is supported by extensive documentation that breaks down the mysteries of how to perform site-based weather normalized savings calculations.

In our next webinar, Tom Plagge, senior data scientist at OpenEE, will demonstrate how to use the OpenEEmeter CLI tool and will provide a primer on calculating weather normalized metered energy savings. We invite all experts in M&V to join us in exploring how consistent, transparent methods can lead to new innovations in energy efficiency programs.