Elster subsidiary EnergyICT has received a 2010 European Business Award for the Environment for its EIServe energy management system. EIServe has been recognised by the European Commission (EC) as the winner of the Product Award category for driving significant energy efficiency improvements at retailer Tesco.
Announced during the annual Green Week conference in Brussels, the European Business Awards for the Environment recognise 'the best of the best' businesses that have already succeeded in competitions at a national level. Winners are selected for making a particular contribution to sustainable development by combining innovation, economic viability, environmental concern and social responsibility.
"This energy monitoring and control system is being used by a major retailer to achieve substantial reductions in energy use," said the EC jury. "It could and should be copied by others."
EIServer has helped reduce energy consumption by 20 per cent across all Tesco's UK stores. Stefan Grosjean, head of Elster Integrated Solutions' Communication Products Centre and CEO of EnergyICT, said "We are honored to be selected by the European Commission as a winner of this year's European Business Awards for the Environment. Elster, through a wide range of different offerings, empowers organisations and utilities across Europe with sophisticated energy management solutions that provide true energy efficiency improvements and measurable costs savings."
Central data repository
For large energy-consuming businesses, energy suppliers and service providers, EIServer serves as an Energy Data Management (EDM) System, the central data repository for energy management projects. EIServer is an EDM and monitoring system suitable for all energy management applications. The flexible, dynamic and open software consists of a high-volume Oracle database with a high-performance JAVA business logic layer.
This high-tech software platform is a large scale 'data warehouse' that helps end-users turn energy consumption data into useful information. Specifically for energy management, EIServer was designed to collect, store and manage consumption data in order to monitor, visualise energy flows and optimise the total energy efficiency. By measuring, logging, transmitting and storing energy consumption data from multiple sites, an accurate and complete energy data warehouse can be built by EIServer.
The system is currently used for a range of energy management functions, including data validation, tenant billing, forecasting (actual compared to forecast with alarms), monitoring and verification, continuous energy monitoring, benchmarking, cost per production analysis, group reporting and others.
Collected and validated data can be turned into information by using the powerful aggregation capabilities inherent to EIServer. Its EDM reporting engine provides both a set of easy-to-use reports and the capability to define additional reports in a time-efficient and user-friendly manner.
