A hotel energy management firm to which hotel owners and operators  in China outsource their energy management function practiced what it preached this week with the announcement that it was doing some outsourcing of its own.

It is assigning its energy consumption monitoring service to an Australian company specialising in that facet of the energy management discipline.

Most hotel owners outsource the management of their hotels to hotel management companies.  Hotel management companies, in turn, outsource their legal work to law firm, their advertising placement to ad agencies, their window washing to cleaning companies and, slowly, their energy management to firms like ours.  Energy Resources Management has found that an Australian company, BCM Ltd, can supply daily monitoring of energy consumption more cost-effectively than we can do it ourselves, explained Robert Allender, managing director of the twelve year old company. 

Hotel owners and operators entrust their energy management to us because they want the benefits of our focus, know-how, and well proven value drivers, continued Allender. We have saved our clients millions of dollars in previously wasted energy costs, but we are convinced that collaborating in this endeavour with parties like BCM will enhance our clients' end results even further.

They have a team of highly experienced energy engineers scrutinising the consumption data of many hundreds of energy meters all across Australia, from the chilly Snowy Mountains to the scorching Red Centre, and they have been doing this for more than ten years.  Our trials with them have shown them to be expert in analysing detailed meter data, spotting anomalies and trends, and determining the likely cause.  And they monitor every client's data 365 days a year, so problems can be addressed quickly, while actions or situations that reduce energy costs can be pinpointed equally fast.  The net result is savings that are locked in.  The service typically has a payback of less than one month.

Remote energy consumption monitoring is a practice that has grown by leaps and bounds in Australia, said BCM managing partner Peter Dickinson.  Yet full application of this technique is still lagging the US and Europe, where energy users have long taken advantage of the focused expertise of monitoring companies like ours to give themselves lower consumption costs, lower demand charges, rapid reporting of key indicators, the ability to allocate costs to separate business units or to tenants, and a means to verify electricity bills.  Smart energy users in Asia will no doubt be quick to catch up.

What we provide, Dickinson added, is not a piece of software.  Nor is it a website that presents data in a pretty format.  Rather, it's a team of experts working hard on a client's behalf.  Our clients love being sent straight to the answer instead of just being left to figure out for themselves if there is even a problem.

BCM's service, called LiveDATA, can monitor any meter, from any site, anywhere in the world. A video presentation is available at http://www.livedata.com.au/LiveDATAFullTourWeb.wmv

LiveDATA can monitor electricity, water, gas, oil, and a manual input function allows groups to collect any other data it wants to from any of its hotels.  Electricity monitoring is not limited to the main meters.  Seperately monitoring electricity consumption and demand (kWh and kW) from specific pieces of equipment such as chillers, specific circuits such as lighting, or specific operating departments such as the spa, the main kitchen, or the laundry, can uncover a huge amount of valuable information.  This information is critical to making decisions that drive greater profitability.

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