Green Energy Compass System Updates

System Updates

December 2009

New Features include:

• Additional building fields for heating /air-conditioning and other building characteristics.
• Improvement Tracking statuses have been updated and are now triggered manually (submit/un-submit or approve/reject buttons).
• New peer comparison criteria for age of house and “Just My Buildings”
• Support for e-commerce payment of buildings.
• Green Energy Compass will now support the ability to capture fuel level savings in one of several ways:
• Automatically copied when uploading a TREAT xml file
• Manually entered from other Building simulation tools
• Calculated from Improvement Tracking. The calculations are enabled for both monthly and annual meter data. If using annual data, you MUST maintain the building heating fuels and air-conditioning.
• Improvement calculations now show the following text when the calculated energy savings is >= 20%: “Home meets or exceeds ENERGY STAR 20% whole house savings threshold"

Major Bug fixes include:

• Generate Energy Usage report even if energy usage is too high to generate an EPA Home Energy Yardstick score.
• Proper handling of Natural Gas in units of MCF.
• Upload of Excel import for meter consumption data.
• Program users can see which service provider created building entry.