Creating New Rates

One of the most challenging jobs of managing energy usage is keeping track of your meter’s rates. As you know, rates are continually changing and it can be difficult to capture them for every building meter in your portfolio. We have just made it easier for you to enter rates!

There are now three ways to set up rates in EnergyCAP:

In Vendors & Rates, select a Vendor and click on the + sign:

The Meter Wizard will guide you through selecting Rate Codes:

In Administration, import a new rate using the Setup Manager:

For further information, watch an Overview of Vendors and Rates or submit a technical support ticket.

Importing Setup Data

A new feature in EnergyCAP Express allows you to use formatted setup files to import all major objects into your account. You are now able to import the important pieces of your organization quickly—Accounts and Meters, Cost Centers, Places, and Vendors. Find this new feature in Administration:

In the Setup Manager, export the template to Excel and complete the respective fields for your organization:

Go to Help < Administration for Help articles on setup. Help videos will be available soon.

Learn to Use EnergyCAP Better at Catalyst

Would you like to use EnergyCAP Express better?

Register for the 2012 EnergyCAP Catalyst Training for Savings Conference on April 17–18 in State College, PA.

Catalyst will help you to get the most value from EnergyCAP Express through the Hands-on Boot Camp on April 17 and training sessions on April 18. (There are repeat sessions on April 19 for users of EnergyCAP Enterprise.)

The Boot Camp on Day One includes hands-on, exercise-based training on all aspects of EnergyCAP Express. The training sessions on Day Two include presentations that discuss common tasks in EnergyCAP.

In addition to the training, Catalyst includes:

• Private consultations with EnergyCAP staff
• Training handbook (PDF)
• Breakfasts, lunches, and snacks
• Networking activities

The cost is only $395 for the two-day conference.

Please visit the Catalyst website to register and learn more about the conference.

Announcing EnergyCAP Express 2.10.0!

Our newest release is available. The exciting additions in EnergyCAP Express 2.10.0 include:

All New Web-based Audits

The EnergyCAP audit engine has been completely redesigned to provide more flexibility and speed in auditing utility bills for possible errors. This initial release of the audit system has 54 separate audits. While enhancing the audit engine, we made other improvements:

• All audit groups allow filters to be set to determine which bills will be audited
• More relevant data and ordering of audit results to assist users in dealing with the biggest problems first
• After fixing the bill problem, re-auditing the bill will set its status to fixed, rather than having to fix problems manually as before

Please see the new Help documentation for details on how to use the new audit system.

 Upgrade Manager

As more features are added and improved in Express, some settings will have to be adjusted to your data to effectively use new features. To help facilitate this, a new login manager has been added that will prompt you to perform the updates before continuing. Please log in and follow the instructions on upgrading.

Please login to see the newest release of Express. You can read the release notes for more detail.