Energy
How The Era Of Big Data Is Transforming Energy Management (Webinar)
Today, energy management is data-centric. The steady deployment of millions of smart meters, sub-meters and sensors globally are creating a “treasure trove” of energy insights for organizations across manufacturing, retail, technology and utilities sectors. Join this Verdantix webinar as we reveal the technology innovations which are enabling firms to overcome these challenges and more strategically manage energy. View Full Details »
Published: 11 July 2013
Energy Management Software and Services Partnership Map
Throughout 2012 energy management software providers such as CA Technologies, IBM and IHS developed an ever expanding ecosystem of partners. Partnership announcements will continue into 2013 driven by the need to deliver global implementations, gain access to senior budget holders and boost revenue from newly created energy consulting and services divisions. View Full Details »
Published: 11 April 2013
How To Deliver On-Site Renewables At Scale
This report provides energy decision-makers in roles such as Director of Energy and Facilities Manager with an independent analysis of the 20 largest on-site renewable programmes in the US – ranked by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Verdantix assessed these on-site renewables deployments to better understand trends in technology selection and energy services delivery partnership capabilities. View Full Details »
Published: 22 March 2013
Hot Topics In Energy Management (Webinar)
The global energy value chain is in the middle of a multi decade transformation. A shift from centralized to decentralized generation, supply security issues, major policy changes and higher prices impact plant managers, facilities directors, building information modellers, heads of energy services firms and most recently, CFOs. This webinar uses case study analysis and unique survey data to reveal the hot topics in energy management in 2013 View Full Details »
Published: 01 March 2013
Finding The Right Energy Management Software Match (Webinar)
Based on Verdantix Green Quadrant® Energy Management Software (Global) 2013, this webinar helps Heads of energy, facilities, finance and sustainability looking for enterprise software to support their energy management activities, to understand how to shortlist suppliers. View Full Details »
Published: 18 January 2013
Green Quadrant® Energy Management Software (Global) 2013
This report provides a detailed comparison of 14 enterprise energy management software applications to help corporate buyers save time, reduce costs and mitigate risks when selecting products and suppliers. Based on the proprietary Verdantix Green Quadrant methodology, the analysis combines benchmark data from 14 live product demonstrations, responses to a 134 point questionnaire and interviews with an independent panel of 15 customers across 13 industries. View Full Details »
Published: 07 January 2013
Energy Management In Emerging Economies: Trends From The B.R.I.C.S And Mexico (Webinar)
Energy management has become a headline issue for firms operating in emerging markets. Firms across Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Mexico are spending an average of $5.5 million annually on energy management. But how is this money being spent and how will spending trends evolve over the next five years? View Full Details »
Published: 14 December 2012
Ecova And Aclara Help Utilities With Customer Engagement
In February 2012, Ecova and Aclara announced a new partnership, focusing on home energy management: Home Energy Plan. The plan joins the competitive home energy management market, a sector that is experiencing a greater integration of software to complement existing services. View Full Details »
Published: 30 November 2012
Smart Innovators: Big Energy Data Software
This report provides Energy Directors, Finance Directors and Heads of Operations with an independent analysis of energy data analytics software. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study because ’Big Data’ on energy- with the implementation of millions of smart meters and scaling up of corporate energy programmes- is creating new technical and organizational challenges. View Full Details »
Published: 23 November 2012
Brazil Energy Management Spend 2011-2016
This report provides energy leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the Brazilian market for energy management between 2011 and 2016. The analysis finds that expenditure on energy management will grow from $1.8 billion in 2011 to reach $2.6 billion in 2016. View Full Details »
Published: 15 November 2012
Cisco And Joulex Target IT And Facilities Energy Management
Cisco’s EnergyWise software enables organizations to monitor and manage the energy consumption of Cisco equipment such as Ethernet LAN switches, IP phones, and the equipment of Cisco’s partners that supports the EnergyWise protocol. View Full Details »
Published: 01 November 2012
BuildingIQ Gains Ground In The Commercial Property Market
This case study is one of a series of reports that analyses software and supporting energy services designed for a specific energy domain, such as data centres, retail or commercial offices. Founded in 2009, BuildingIQ – which has 15 million sq ft of real estate space under contract – help clients optimize their real-time portfolio-level energy consumption with its BuildingIQ software offering. View Full Details »
Published: 04 October 2012
Verisae Unlocks Opportunities In The Retail Market
This case study is one in a series of Verdantix reports that analyses software and supporting energy services designed for a specific energy domain, such as data centres, retail or commercial offices. Verisae has established itself as a leading provider of energy management software to the grocery retail sector, delivering significant financial returns and developing its products to meet the requirements of its customers. View Full Details »
Published: 04 October 2012
Germany Energy Management Spend 2011-2016
This report provides energy leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the German market for energy management between 2011 and 2016. The analysis finds that expenditure on energy management will grow from $2.0 billion in 2011 to reach $3.2 billion in 2016. View Full Details »
Published: 20 September 2012
Innovations In Green Office Retrofits
Repositioning existing office properties through energy and environmental retrofits represents an opportunity for market participants operating across a building’s life cycle. The constraints of existing structures demand that project teams invest time to develop their understanding of the underlying building structure as well as its mechanical and electrical systems and controls before engaging in a retrofit project. View Full Details »
Published: 19 September 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Emerging Economies
The energy value chain is undergoing a multi-decade transformation, creating opportunities for a wide range of energy service firms, technology and software suppliers. Large firms operating in emerging economies are giving energy and energy management issues greater consideration. View Full Details »
Published: 10 September 2012
Infor Shifts From Facility To Enterprise Energy Management
Rising energy costs, increased price volatility, tighter energy and carbon regulations, and increased stakeholder awareness of sustainability elevate the commercial importance of energy management within firms. This report provides Energy Directors, Facilities Directors, Finance Directors and VPs of Sustainability with independent analysis of Infor’s response-to-the-market shift towards strategic energy management. View Full Details »
Published: 08 August 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Data Tables
The Verdantix Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Data Tables Excel file helps strategy leaders, chief marketing officers and business development directors that operate in the energy equipment, services and software markets to understand the energy management spending patterns of large corporations and the perceptions of their brand in the market. View Full Details »
Published: 25 July 2012
Evolving Customer Usage Patterns Fuel BMS Innovations
This report provides facility managers, occupiers and owners with insights on the latest product innovations and usage trends in the Building Management System (BMS) market. BMS is a mature software offering, first brought to the market in the 1970s. View Full Details »
Published: 02 July 2012
US Shale Gas Glut Will Not Derail The Energy Efficiency Case
This report helps individuals such as CSOs, Energy Directors, Facilities Directors and CFOs understand how the growth of US shale gas affects the business case for corporate energy efficiency. Technological advances in drilling techniques in the past decade have triggered an explosion in natural gas production in the US with total output growing from 1.0 trillion cubic feet in 2008 to 6.8 trillion cubic feet in 2011. View Full Details »
Published: 02 July 2012
US Sustainable Technology Services Spend 2011-2015
This report provides sustainability leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and direction of the US market for sustainable technology services spending from 2011 to 2015. Until recently, expenditure by most firms on technology services had focused on cost reduction projects such as improving the energy efficiency of facilities and data centres. View Full Details »
Published: 22 June 2012
Webinar: The Future of Energy Management
The global energy value chain is at the start of a multi-decade transformation. Large energy users in the private and public sectors are responding to the impact of higher and more volatile energy prices, concerns about security of energy supply, new options for decentralized power generation, creative financing instruments for energy efficiency and the potential for innovation at scale through IT platforms. View Full Details »
Published: 19 June 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Budgets And Priorities
Energy budgets for large firms increasingly contain a component for energy management. This report helps business development directors, chief marketing officers and strategy leaders that operate in the energy equipment, services and software markets to understand how businesses from all sectors around the world approach energy management. View Full Details »
Published: 29 May 2012
Global Energy Leaders Survey 2012: Brands
The corporate energy management market opportunity attracts a wide range of suppliers – strategy and engineering consultants, technology services providers, automation and control suppliers, and energy management software suppliers. This report helps strategy leaders, chief marketing officers and business development directors that operate in the energy equipment, services and software markets to understand buyers’ perceptions of their brand and to benchmark themselves against competitors. View Full Details »
Published: 29 May 2012
The Future Of Energy Management
The global energy value chain – from fuel inputs to end-user consumption – is undergoing a multi-decade transformation. A shift from centralized to decentralized generation, supply security issues, major policy changes and higher prices impacts market participants: plant managers, facilities directors, building information modellers, heads of energy services firms and most recently, CFOs. View Full Details »
Published: 29 May 2012
Webinar: How The Rise Of Energy Systems Integrators Will Enable Strategic Energy Management
Energy systems integrators – a new breed of energy services firm – will reshape the energy value chain as commercial, industrial and utility customers migrate from tactical management frameworks to more strategic approaches. View Full Details »
Published: 25 May 2012
US Department Of Defense Deploys Energy Management At Scale
This report provides individuals such as CSOs and VPs of Environment with an independent analysis of the United States Department of Defense’s (DoD) sustainability strategy. As the US’s single largest consumer of energy, the DoD spent $15.4 billion on energy consumption in 2010 across both its operations and fixed installations, making energy its top priority within its sustainability strategy. View Full Details »
Published: 08 May 2012
France Energy And Carbon Efficiency Spend 2010-2015
This report provides sustainability leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of expenditure in the French market on energy and carbon efficiency initiatives between 2010 and 2015. Quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge as sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 04 April 2012
Webinar: The Future Of The Green Office
What will sustainable offices look like in five years time? Based on analysis of innovations across a building’s lifecycle, we share a realistic view of the building designs, process changes, materials and technologies that will form sustainable offices in 2017. View Full Details »
Published: 02 April 2012
France Sustainable Business Consulting Spend 2010-2015
This report provides sustainable business leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the French sustainable business consulting market between 2010 and 2015. Quantifying spending on sustainable business consulting is a challenge for executives because sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 22 March 2012
UK Strategic Energy Management Spend 2010-2015
This report provides sustainability leaders in market-facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the UK strategic energy management market between 2010 and 2015. Quantifying sustainable business spending is a challenge as sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 21 March 2012
US Launches $4 Billion Energy Efficiency Roadmap
This report helps energy services firms and real estate retrofit specialists understand the Better Building Challenge, a green building policy initiative announced by the White House on December 2, 2011. The Better Buildings Challenge aims to bring together Federal Government’s procurement powers and commitments from 60 private sector property owners to commission $4 billion of energy efficiency projects. View Full Details »
Published: 10 February 2012
Panoptix Targets Building Energy Performance Optimization
This report provides building owners, occupiers and managers with independent analysis of Panoptix, a suite of building energy management software applications and services launched by Johnson Controls in October, 2011. The Panoptix solution is a scalable energy management software and services platform for real estate owners, occupiers and managers. View Full Details »
Published: 01 February 2012
Market Overview: Enterprise Energy Management Software (Webinar)
This Verdantix webinar will provide you with unique insights into the complex energy management software market and provide an independent comparison of software providers. Drawing on nine months of research including interviews, product demonstrations and in-depth comparative analysis of 15 software providers, we will reveal leading suppliers in the market today. View Full Details »
Published: 16 December 2011
Green Quadrant Energy Management Software (Global) 2011
This report provides a detailed benchmark of fifteen enterprise energy management software applications to help corporate buyers save time, reduce cost and mitigate risks in product and supplier selection. View Full Details »
Published: 06 December 2011
Webinar: How To Finance Corporate Energy Efficiency Programmes
Energy efficiency is one of the cheapest options for firms to mitigate rising energy costs and energy market volatility, comply with regulation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But access to capital is one of the biggest barriers to implementing energy efficiency programmes. View Full Details »
Published: 09 November 2011
Metrus's Energy Efficiency As A Service Benefits BAE Systems
In October 2010 and June 2011, Siemens Building Technologies completed the construction of $1 million and $2.2 million energy efficiency projects in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Greenlawn, New York, for BAE Systems, the global aerospace and defence contractor. Metrus Energy provided 100% of the initial capital for the project, while BAE Systems pays Metrus Energy an energy efficiency service charge for the savings delivered, under Metrus Energy’s Energy Services Agreement. View Full Details »
Published: 10 October 2011
Marks & Spencer's New Store Cuts Carbon Emissions By 23%
Building stock is a key target for action as firms seek for ways to reduce their environmental impact. This report helps facilities managers, retail occupiers and property developers understand some of the emerging trends in sustainable retail management, occupation and development, taking UK food and clothing retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) as a case study. View Full Details »
Published: 07 October 2011
How To Finance Corporate Energy Efficiency
This report helps energy directors, facilities directors and finance directors to identify financing solutions for energy efficiency investments. Based on interviews with 13 energy management financing experts, Verdantix finds that although firms prefer to self-finance energy efficiency programmes, 10 alternative types of external financing solutions exist. View Full Details »
Published: 04 October 2011
Buyers' Guide To Energy Management Software
This report provides energy directors, facilities directors, finance directors and VPs of sustainability with independent analysis of the energy management software market. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study because buyers must choose from a dizzying array of software applications to help them manage energy use within their organization. To better understand this topic we interviewed 16 energy management experts and surveyed 72 energy management software suppliers. View Full Details »
Published: 30 September 2011
C3 Unveils Vision For Enterprise Energy Management
This report provides CEOs, VPs of strategy and VPs of product development with independent analysis of the official launch of C3’s energy management application on August 11, 2011. Co-founded by Tom Siebel and Patricia House, C3 has operated in stealth since 2008. Verdantix spoke with Patricia House, SVP Strategy, and Chris Stauber, VP Products, to find out more about C3 and its software platform. View Full Details »
Published: 26 August 2011
Smart Innovators: Energy Management Software
Rising energy prices, greater energy price volatility, growing regulation for energy and associated carbon and increasing stakeholder pressure to manage energy in a more sustainable manner place considerable pressure upon those responsible for energy management within firms. This report provides energy directors, facilities directors, finance directors and VPs of sustainability with independent analysis of the energy management software market. View Full Details »
Published: 24 August 2011
Hara Aligns With Strategic Energy Management Ecosystem
This report analyzes the strategy of energy and environment software supplier Hara following the firm’s recent Series C funding and its recruitment of Ray Lane to the Board. The $25 million in funding together with strategic investors from the energy value chain will help align the Hara business with the emerging opportunity to provide strategic energy management. View Full Details »
Published: 30 June 2011
Canadian Energy & Carbon Efficiency Spend 2009-2014
This report provides sustainability leaders in market facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the Canadian market for energy and carbon efficiency spend between 2009 and 2014. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study as quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge. One key reason for this is that sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 29 June 2011
Australian Energy & Carbon Efficiency Spend 2009-2014
This report provides sustainability leaders in market facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the Australian market for energy and carbon efficiency spend between 2009 and 2014. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study as quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge. One key reason for this is that sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 16 June 2011
US Energy & Carbon Efficiency Spend 2009-2014
This report provides sustainability leaders in market facing and corporate executive roles with an independent analysis of the size and growth of the US market for energy and carbon efficiency between 2009 and 2014. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study as quantifying sustainable business spend is a challenge. One key reason for this is that sustainability budgets are often dispersed across many business functions and are embedded in business-as-usual activities. View Full Details »
Published: 14 June 2011
Software Acquisitions Provide Boost To Energy Services
This report provides Chief Sustainability Officers, Strategy Directors and VPs of Sustainability with independent analysis of energy management software acquisitions. Verdantix selected this subject because over the past 18 months several large firms have acquired energy management software providers and integrated them into their broader energy management and sustainability offerings. View Full Details »
Published: 09 June 2011
Best Practices For Selecting Energy And Carbon Software (Webinar)
This webinar will help you save time and minimise risk in the selection of the energy and carbon software best suited to your firm’s requirements. Based on Verdantix research with hundreds of decision makers in energy management, EH&S, sustainability, finance and IT you will learn about the best practices to guide your supplier selection decision. View Full Details »
Published: 19 April 2011
IBM Acquires TRIRIGA To Boost Smarter Buildings Initiative
On March 22, 2011, IBM announced the acquisition of TRIRIGA, a US-based software supplier of Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS). The acquisition forms part of IBM’s ‘Smarter Buildings’ initiative, which aims to improve operations, reduce operating costs, lower energy consumption, and enhance occupant satisfaction for its clients. View Full Details »
Published: 30 March 2011
UK Carbon & Energy Software Market 2010-2013
The market for carbon and energy management software is difficult to size and forecast because of market immaturity, undisclosed deals, no centralized budget and a host of other factors. This report helps software suppliers, investors, partners and buyers to forecast revenues streams, plan marketing strategies, define sales strategies, and budget accordingly. View Full Details »
Published: 28 March 2011
US Carbon & Energy Software Market 2010-2014
This paper is aimed at software suppliers, investors, partners and buyers wanting to plan marketing strategies, prioritize sales strategies, forecast expected revenues, and budget accordingly. Market immaturity, undisclosed deals, no centralized budget and a host of other factors make the market for carbon and energy management software difficult to size and forecast. View Full Details »
Published: 09 February 2011
Green Quadrant Carbon & Energy Management Software
The global market for carbon and energy software is intensely competitive — buyers choose from over 100 suppliers. To help buyers save time, save money and reduce risk in their selection process this Verdantix Green Quadrant report compares the 28 software applications that pre-qualify as a potential fit for $1 billion revenue firms. View Full Details »
Published: 01 November 2010
IT Will Power Boom In Energy Managed Services
The carbon management agenda is driving a new wave of entrants into the more established managed energy services market. Software suppliers, specialist consultants and technology services firms are all targeting the growing market of combined carbon and energy managed services. View Full Details »
Published: 13 August 2010
Fresh & Easy Starts Sustainable Software Journey
This is one in a series of Verdantix reports on corporate sustainability strategies and the use of sustainable business software that analyses the business drivers behind Fresh & Easy’s selection of a Verisae application. Fresh & Easy is a $302 million US retail firm that committed itself to an ambitious climate change plan, outlined by its parent firm, Tesco. View Full Details »
Published: 30 July 2010
Best Practices For Building Management Systems
Resurgent energy prices, national legislation and corporate brand risks have bought energy efficiency to the forefront of private and public sector climate change and sustainability strategies. For many firms, reducing building electricity consumption is a top priority initiative and the operation of an efficient Building Management System (BMS) is often an integral element of the project. View Full Details »
Published: 26 May 2010
The Energy Efficiency Imperative
Increasing oil and electricity prices, the hidden cost of carbon, growing risks from energy supply disruption and board-level climate change compliance issues make energy efficiency a new imperative for the CFO. Verdantix analysis of energy and carbon trends indicates that finance executives need a multi-year energy efficiency plan to maximise cost savings, help the CEO meet carbon reduction goals and make financial decisions based on total cost of ownership. View Full Details »
Published: 07 December 2009
Hara Fund Raising Pressures Competitors
Hara Software, a California headquartered software firm focused on solutions for energy, carbon and environmental management raised a $14 million Series B round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Nth Power and JAFCO Ventures. To hear more about the rationale for the additional investment and business plans Verdantix spoke with the CEO, Amit Chatterjee and the CMO Chris Farinacci on the day the deal was announced. View Full Details »
Published: 11 September 2009
Total Portfolio: Energy Efficiency Solutions
This Total Portfolio report clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of 30 energy efficiency solutions. The solutions are plotted on three product lifecycle curves based on a fact-based assessment of each solution’s maturity, investment case, future prospects and sustainability benefits. View Full Details »
Published: 24 June 2009
Innovation: Tesco's Eco-Store Strategy
In January 2007 Tesco’s CEO, Sir Terry Leahy, announced a climate change strategy which included cutting carbon emissions from stores by 50 per cent by 2020 relative to 2006. After 2 years of trial projects, the firm recently announced the opening of its first fully-fledged eco-store in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. View Full Details »
Published: 23 January 2009