Buildings are full of hidden energy savings potential that can be uncovered with the right analysis. With sophisticated software applied to everyday building operations, building owners are now reaping the cost-saving benefits of analytics. The Smart Energy Analytics Campaign is a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that encourages the use of a wide variety of commercially available Energy Management and Information Systems (EMIS) technologies and ongoing monitoring practices to help uncover those energy-saving opportunities and improve building performance for the long run.

The Campaign aims to increase adoption of EMIS technologies and the energy management practices that utilize these technologies, helping bring analytics into the mainstream. In the Smart Energy Analytics Campaign, owners, facility managers, energy managers, and operators of commercial buildings across the country receive expert technical support and national recognition for their efforts.

Joining the Smart Energy Analytics Campaingn is now closed to new participants and Supporting Partners.

The Campaign is now closed to new applications to join as a participant and to join as a Supporting Partner.

The Smart Energy Analytics Campaign targets individual commercial buildings over 50,000 sq ft of floor area, or campuses and portfolios of commercial buildings.

Yes, you can participate in a utility program and the Smart Energy Analytics Campaign at the same time. There is no conflict between participating in any utility program and receiving support from this Campaign, and in fact, this is encouraged.

Resources available for the Campaign are organized by categories of Business Case, Technology, and Processes.

Participants who share their EMIS-related actions and energy use in the webform will be recognized on the website if they so choose.

Smart Energy Analytics Campaign participants are those who pledge to join the Campaign and use their EMIS to save energy, as outlined in the Join as a Participant section.

Smart Energy Analytics Supporting Partners are those organizations committed to promoting the benefits of the Campaign. Supporters spread the message of the Campaign to their customers or members, recruit participants, and include a Campaign link on their website.

Talk with your utility – some have programs geared towards EMIS. Even if they don’t, they may support adding EMIS as a part of a controls measure. The Campaign developed a list of programs that relate to EMIS, RCx/MBCx, or both.

To make your Campaign pledge, a participant may install a new EMIS, upgrade an existing EMIS, or continue using an existing EMIS. At a minimum level, to participate in the Campaign you must make a pledge, which can be changed over time, to implement at least one of the following:

1. Use of an energy information system (EIS) with hourly (or more frequent) interval data from the whole building meter, or
2. Use of a fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) system or automated system optimization (ASO) for at least one HVAC system

Any energy management process is eligible as long as participants use their EMIS to analyze data to identify energy-saving opportunities and implement at least one of these energy-savings opportunities during the Campaign.

To achieve a best practice level, the EMIS installation should include at least one of the following:

1. EIS with whole building interval meter data, with sub-metering of major end-uses and embedded M&V
2. FDD or ASO software with BAS data for all HVAC systems.

As long as energy-saving measures are found and implemented through analyzing EMIS data during the campaign, any investigative process may be used. However, an ongoing process such as monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) is highly encouraged.