Overview
EnergyProbe™ is a leading edge Windows application designed for utility load researchers, account managers, building performance simulation engineers and energy consultants to help explore, summarize and critically analyze electric and gas interval load data. Because it can process almost any type of time-series data, it is equally useful as a general purpose data visualization tool for a wide range of measurements such as weather, industrial process control, and water quality.
EnergyProbe™ has a Multitude of Applications
EnergyProbe™ enables you to turn interval data into strategic information by making it easily visualized, understood and interpreted. It can be used for:
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•Facility energy management
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•Energy cost and demand reduction
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•Class load profiling and rate design
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•Reviewing interval load data for large-account billing
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•Allocating costs to tenants
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•Calibrating building simulation models
You not only see the big picture in the form of raw graphs and Energy Prints, but you can view the data in aggregate, day profiles, time-of-use periods, scatter plots and much more. These alternative views help you quickly spot patterns and irregularities in individual profiles, compare a single profile between different time periods, summarize, compare, and identify relationships between several profiles.
Explore Your Data with Interactive Views
The software offers the user a quick and easy way to visualize data in several different informative and interactive “views” which give insight not available in any other analysis package.
There are more then a dozen unique views of the data, everything from Raw, Aggregate and Day Profile Views to sophisticated ones such as the Time-of-Use (TOU) and Rate Calculator views which unveil details often ignored or overlooked. The Load Curtailment View gives utilities and customers a way of managing and analyzing the effects of load curtailment events in both real time and after the fact. Using ongoing forecasts, which can be customized for each customer, the Curtailment View is able to calculate the degree of curtailment and the rebate earned based upon a fixed amount for energy saved, pre-determined bids, or interval spot prices.
Powerful data manipulation and editing tools turn EnergyProbe™ into a virtual “swiss-army knife” of energy analysis. They allow the user to interactively modify profiles in an assortment of unique ways: everything from intelligently “shifting” data from one year to another, to cropping, truing up to known billing determinants, aggregating, resampling, shifting peak load to off peak periods and much more.
Import and export wizards for most industry standard data formats allow the user to quickly read and analyze their data. EnergyProbe is web-enabled and includes the ability to download data from a growing list of data providers via your company’s private network or the internet, and serves as an extremely flexible and powerful tool for analyzing real-time energy usage.
Copy and Paste Graphs, Pictures and Spreadsheets
EnergyProbe is designed to integrate easily and seamlessly into your data analysis workflow. Graphs, images (EnergyPrints, Time of Use Settings, legends, etc.), and tabular spreadsheet data can be directly copied out of EnergyProbe in a number of standard clipboard formats and pasted into your preferred document, spreadsheet or presentation creation tool (e.g. OpenOffice, MS Word, Excel or PowerPoint). Creating reports and presentations specifically tailored to your - or your customer’s - specific needs can be accomplished more quickly and easily than ever before.
Download the EnergyProbe™ trial for free
A demo version of EnergyProbe™ is freely available to download and evaluate. Until it is registered, EnergyProbe™ will only open the included data files, will not save data, and is limited to downloading online data only from the PG&E dynamic load profile website.
You can download the EnergyProbe™ installer here.
To learn more about the most recent improvements and bug fixes, view the EnergyProbe™ change log here.
