Information and Data Management
Quality data is essential for meeting the reporting requirements of NGER, building a carbon strategy, and is at the heart of any successful energy and resource management program.
Energetics has been providing data management, and associated bill processing services, to our clients for the last 8 years.
We directly manage data for more than 20 major Australian organizations across 16,500 sites and 20,000 accounts, and we currently process more than 145,000 transactions each year worth over $0.5 billion.
A Complete Solution
Energetics offers a complete data management and reporting solution that encompasses:
- Proven and robust global data capture, management and reporting platform
- Dedicated Data Management team integrated within Australia’s leading energy and greenhouse consultancy
- 8 years experience in managing energy and environmental data and reporting for many of Australia’s leading organizations
Value Offered by Energetics’ Team
Our Information and Data Management services help our clients to save money, reduce consumption and emissions, whilst at the same time ensuring high quality auditable data for accurate and reliable reporting.
Some of the challenges being addressed by our clients include:
- Compliance with NGER and mandatory programs such as EEO and EREP
- Voluntary reporting e.g. the Carbon Disclosure project, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Corporate Sustainability Reports
- Manage rapidly escalating energy costs
- Support development of their carbon strategy
- Capture and manage environmental data (water, waste, recycling, process emissions etc)
- Identify billing errors and cost saving opportunities
- Support energy procurement
- Reliable and accurate budgeting, forecasting and accruals
- Reduce in-house costs
Benefits of our online reporting platform include:
- Customized security for both data entry and reporting
- Captures NGER-specific data e.g. operational control, equity, timelines
- Highly scalable
- Handles multiple fuel and data types
- Easy to access - available 24/7 anywhere via Internet
- Flexible organizational structure and hierarchy - company, division, facility, site, geographical location
- Multiple reporting options – standard reports, customised reports and ad-hoc reporting
- Integrated workflow, audit trail and strong controls
- Multiple data export formats including mappings to external systems
- Automatic maintenance of greenhouse gas emission factors
- Options for support with data capture, data validation and data management
How We Can Help You
We have substantial practical experience of helping our clients with their data management and reporting needs, and we carefully tailor our range of services to meet their requirements.
Our dedicated team of specialists assists clients with the following:
Data Receipt, Entry & Validation
- Efficient “one-off” capture of all data necessary for reporting, ongoing management of consumption, and energy procurement
- Receive paper and electronic bills
- Detailed data entry ( substantially more data captured than typical AP process e.g. consumption line items, taxes, levies, surcharges, adjustments etc)
- Up to 63 individual validation checks on each bill
- Investigation & resolution of validation failures
- Input of non-invoice data (e.g. targets, KPIs, weather data, interval data etc)
Bill Payment
- Fast efficient process to eliminate late fees and enable clients to negotiate early payment discounts
- Authorisation of bills for payment
- Provision of electronic bill payment files customised to client’s AP system and GL coding
Data Management
- Analysis at multiple levels (e.g. site, region, state, country)
- Trend analysis to identify issues
- Resolution of issues
- Identify and chase “missing data” to ensure completeness of data
- Development and analysis of targets, budgets and KPIs
- Optimising tariffs
- Demand review and resets
- Power factor analysis
- Analysis of franchise versus contract
- Analysis of interval data against invoice data
Account Management
- Liaison with retailers and suppliers
- Transfer of new & existing sites
- Disconnection of sites
- Follow up queries and questions with client staff
- Managing power quality issues
Reporting
- Hundreds of energy, environmental, financial and interval data reports available online
- Accruals, budgeting, forecasting and tracking
- Push reporting
- Exception reporting
We would welcome the opportunity to discuss your needs
NEED FURTHER INFORMATION? If you require further information about this service or advice as to how Energetics can assist, please contact Chief Operating Officer; David Marchant on 02 9929 3911