How do customers control energy costs with PowerSpring?
Traditionally, a utility sends its customers a monthly bill showing total energy usage and total charges, sometimes arriving weeks after the fact. They can’t do much to analyze their energy consumption or control costs with such minimal information arriving that late. Tracking energy consumption using near real-time data from AMRs, however, allows them to develop a detailed load or usage “profile” for each facility that is equipped with an AMR system. These profiles can reveal times of peak energy consumption and chronic inefficiencies in operations, which not only waste energy but cost money. During certain peak consumption periods, customers may even be assessed a rate higher than otherwise, and not know it. With AMR information, PowerSpring customers can take appropriate actions to control costs. For example, shut down or curtail energy-intensive operations during peak consumption (or peak rate) times. Reschedule other operations to offpeak times. Pinpoint areas of waste or ineffici
