Category · 18 products
Energy Management Software
Four different kinds of product are sold as energy management software, and they are not alternatives to one another. Buying the wrong one is common because all four produce a dashboard with a consumption chart on it.
Energy management proper is about meter data, consumption, utility bills and tariffs: it answers what you used and what it cost. ESG and carbon reporting is about converting activity into emissions across reporting scopes for disclosure, which is an accounting problem with an audit trail rather than an operational one. Power monitoring is electrical: power quality, loading and protection, usually tied to switchgear. Fault detection and diagnostics analyses building system behaviour to find equipment running badly, which saves energy as a consequence of finding faults rather than by measuring consumption.
Each profile here states what the product is not, as well as what it is. A fault detection platform will not manage your utility bills, and an ESG suite will not tell you that an air handling unit is heating and cooling simultaneously.
One entry in this category is a free government benchmarking tool rather than commercial software, and is labelled as such rather than compared on commercial terms.
Vendors
Acuity Inc. (formerly Acuity Brands), Clockworks Analytics, CopperTree Analytics, EnergyCAP, EnergyElephant, Enertiv, GridPoint, IBM, MRI Software, Noda, Schneider Electric, Siemens Smart Infrastructure, SkyFoundry, Spacewell (Nemetschek Group), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Verdigris Technologies
18 products
EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert
Schneider Electric
Power monitoring software from Schneider Electric for electrical system health, power quality analysis and energy efficiency. Includes automated voltage disturbance waveform analysis and incident grouping of electrical alarms.
Reporting and exports Portfolio benchmarking Anomaly detection Energy metering and submetering
- On-premises
- Commercial
- Power monitoring
- Medium, Enterprise
Noda
Noda
Agentic AI platform for commercial building operations, the successor to Aquicore. Analyses BMS trend, meter and weather data to detect faults, trace root causes and package fixes as costed projects, with automated demand management.
Documented API Dashboards BMS and building integration Demand and load management
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Fault detection and diagnostics
- Medium, Enterprise
Clockworks Analytics
Clockworks Analytics
Fault detection and diagnostics platform for building systems that plugs into existing building systems and ranks diagnostics by avoidable cost. Includes an information model, expert system diagnostics, condition based maintenance and an AI assistant.
Documented API Reporting and exports BMS and building integration Fault detection and diagnostics
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Fault detection and diagnostics
- Medium, Enterprise
CopperTree Kaizen
CopperTree Analytics
SaaS supervisory analytics platform combining fault detection and diagnostics with an energy management and information system, plus an automated commissioning module. Native BACnet device support in the current ACx firmware.
Reporting and exports Dashboards BMS and building integration Fault detection and diagnostics
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Fault detection and diagnostics
- Medium, Enterprise
SkySpark
SkyFoundry
Analytics and fault detection platform for building and equipment data from SkyFoundry. Over 500 built in analytic functions, Project Haystack REST API, and deployment on premises, in the cloud, at the edge or on the desktop. Sold through resellers and OEMs.
Documented API Reporting and exports Dashboards BMS and building integration
- Cloud, On-premises, Hybrid
- Commercial
- Fault detection and diagnostics
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
Verdigris
Verdigris Technologies
High frequency electrical monitoring platform, now positioned primarily for AI data centres. Samples power at 8 kHz with continuous waveform analysis for per circuit measurement and early equipment degradation detection.
Anomaly detection Energy metering and submetering
- Cloud
- Mixed
- Power monitoring
- Medium, Enterprise
Enertiv
Enertiv
Commercial real estate sustainability and operations platform combining utility data collection, shadow metering for tenant consumption, real time equipment monitoring with fault detection, tenant billing and a built in maintenance system.
Mobile access Reporting and exports Dashboards Portfolio benchmarking
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Energy management
- Medium, Enterprise
EnergyElephant
EnergyElephant
Energy, water, waste and carbon management software with automated utility bill validation, a meter reading mobile app, Scope 1, 2 and 3 tracking and ISO 50001 targeting. Offers a free limited version.
Mobile access Reporting and exports Dashboards Scope 1, 2 and 3 accounting
- Cloud
- Freemium
- Energy management
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
MRI Energy
MRI Software
Energy management and monitoring platform from MRI Software, built on the eSight Energy product MRI acquired in 2021. Covers metering, bill validation, tenant billing, anomaly alerts and carbon reporting.
Reporting and exports Dashboards BMS and building integration Anomaly detection
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Energy management
- Medium, Enterprise
Atrius Energy
Acuity Inc. (formerly Acuity Brands)
Energy data centralisation and dashboarding product from Acuity, formerly BuildingOS. Carbon and sustainability reporting sits in a separate product, Atrius Sustainability.
Reporting and exports Dashboards
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Energy management
- Medium, Enterprise
GridPoint
GridPoint
Energy intelligence and automated building operations platform for small commercial sites, collecting data from HVAC, refrigeration and lighting and providing anomaly detection, HVAC scheduling and demand management.
BMS and building integration Demand and load management Fault detection and diagnostics Anomaly detection
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Energy management
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
Spacewell Energy
Spacewell (Nemetschek Group)
Cloud energy management platform, formerly DEXMA, now part of Spacewell within the Nemetschek Group. Collects 15 minute data, runs AI anomaly detection and benchmarks against a database of more than 50,000 facilities.
Mobile access Documented API Reporting and exports Dashboards
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Energy management
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
Published comparisons
How to choose
How to choose in this category
Start from the question you need answered. "Reduce energy cost" splits immediately into: we do not know what we use, our bills may be wrong, our plant is running badly, or we have to report emissions. Those are four products. Energy management systems for buildings sets out the landscape.
Check your data before you buy a platform to analyse it. Most disappointing deployments in this category fail on data, not software. Meter coverage, meter units, resets and rollovers all corrupt reporting silently. Validating meter units and handling meter resets and rollovers are worth reading before a procurement, not after.
Decide whether you need bills or telemetry, or both. Utility bill management works from invoices and is excellent for cost, tariff validation and portfolio benchmarking. Interval telemetry works from meters and is necessary for anomaly detection and demand management. Products are usually much stronger at one than the other.
For fault detection, ask what it needs from the BMS. These platforms depend on points, naming and trend availability, and the effort is in the integration rather than the licence. BMS energy optimisation, FDD and analytics covers what good looks like, and threshold versus statistical anomaly detection explains why simple rules often outperform a model on building data.
Keep ESG reporting separate in your mind. If the driver is disclosure, the requirements are auditability, emission factors and scope boundaries, not real-time dashboards. ESG and sustainability reporting from asset data covers the data lineage that makes a disclosure defensible.
Note how the product is sold. At least one platform in this category is licensed almost entirely through system integrators rather than as a subscription, which changes who you depend on for configuration and support. The profiles record that where it applies.
Frequently asked questions
Because they are quoted on portfolio size, meter counts and data volumes, and several are sold through integrators rather than directly. Where a vendor publishes a figure on its own site this directory records it with the source and date, and where it does not the profile says so rather than estimating.
For portfolio benchmarking against peers, a free tool can genuinely be enough, and this directory includes one. It is labelled as a free, US-centric government benchmarking tool rather than a commercial platform, because it does not do metering, bill validation, anomaly detection or fault detection and should not be compared as though it did.
Because analysis inherits every defect in the measurement. Incomplete meter coverage, inconsistent units, meter resets and rollovers and unmapped points all produce confident, wrong reports. Any serious deployment should budget for data validation as a work package rather than assuming the platform will handle it.
FDD analyses building system data to find equipment running incorrectly, such as valves leaking by or simultaneous heating and cooling. It saves energy as a side effect of finding faults. You need it if you have a reasonably instrumented BMS and plant worth optimising. You do not need it if you cannot yet answer what you consume, because FDD will not tell you that.
No. Energy management works from meters and bills and answers what you used and what it cost. ESG reporting converts activity data into emissions across reporting scopes for disclosure, which needs emission factors, scope boundaries and an audit trail. Some products do both, many do one well and the other thinly, and this directory labels which is which.
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