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About the Cost Ranking Report

This report is similar to the Enterprise Ranking Report in the E2 Profiler module (see "About the Enterprise Ranking Report"). You select meters and manually rank costs for applicable cost components or leave the legend empty and define the sample size of the analysis. By selecting sites or commodities, you may identify the least and most expensive sites or meters and cost components in the enterprise. You can compare any point or aggregated point, which allows you to rank the sites with the highest overall energy bill, not just the highest individual electric or gas costs.

You may also rank costs of sub-metered equipment such as lighting and HVAC as well as ranking cost components such as demand charges, transmission charges, generation charges, and so on.

Users can report on a single billing cycle or multiple billing cycles. If a user wishes to view costs for Q1, they would select January as the reporting period, then define “3” in the Consecutive Billing Cycles entry field. In this case, the costs would be computed for individual meters for individual months.

Users can compare costs in this report to historical costs for the same meter using baselining. For example, if a user runs a report for three sites for Q1 2004 and would like to see how the total costs compare to the previous year, they compare the two side-by-side.

Figure 4-25 Cost Ranking Report Example.

Creating a Cost Ranking Report.

Create an Cost Ranking Report by performing the following tasks:

Start the Report

  1. Launch shortBrandName from your browser using the following URL:http://hostname/eas
    where hostname is the name or IP address of the Web Supervisor.
  2. Enter appropriate login information to gain access to the home page.

    Note: From within an existing report, it is easier to simply use the Goto: menu on the upper right to select the desired report, as an alternative to the following step.

  3. From the shortBrandName home page, open Cost Ranking by clicking on the Cost Ranking link. The Cost Ranking report template displays.

Select the Meters or Sub-meters to Chart

  1. The tree displays sites and points as filtered by the Site Filter drop down list. In the site tree, right click on the site or point that you want to include and select Add to Report from the popup menu. The point is added in the Selection window.

    Note: To quickly run a report of the highest or lowest cost points in the database, leave the selection window blank. The software will automatically select points in the database that are the highest or lowest.

  2. At any time after adding a point to the Selection window, you may view the point’s attached rates by right-clicking the point and selecting “View Attached Rates” from the shortcut menu, as shown below.
  3. Repeat adding points until you have all of points in the report that you want to chart.

Set Report Parameters

  1. In the Ranking frame, set Order, Result Size, Cost Component, and Cost Considered.
    • Order

      Can be set to Highest or Lowest to determine the order by which sites will be ranked.

    • Result Size

      This sets the number of points included in the result window. If you have no sites selected, the software will automatically select the highest or lowest cost points – up to a maximum equal to the “result size”.

    • Cost Component

      This sets the type of costs used in the calculation. This could be a total of all costs or one of several preset or user-defined component costs.

    • Cost Considered

      This allows for selection of one of the following options: “Actual Costs” or “Calculated Costs”.

  2. In the Billing Period group, select the starting billing period for the data and enter the number of subsequent billing cycles to include.
  3. In the Baseline group, clear the “Show Baseline” option. Use this option and set a date when you want to compare costs to a previous billing period.
  4. In the Normalization frame, set your desired parameters. If you want to normalize for Floor area, for weather, or production, refer to "Types of Normalization", for details.
  5. Click on Run Report to create the report. Figure 4-26 is an example of a Cost Ranking report using sample data.
Figure 4-26 Cost Ranking Report Sample Exercise.


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