UtilityVision® offers customers virtually unlimited opportunities for collecting and managing energy data. For instance:

• A 15-building university has all electric services through a master meter to obtain a lower single-meter rate. They also sub-meter each building and departmental unit to develop load profiles for energy management analysis and to allocate costs by department for budgeting purposes.
  
  
• By having all electric service through a master meter, a housing project obtains the lowest possible single-meter electricity rate. They can also measure and charge residents for their actual usage by sub-metering the individual living units. This gives residents more of an incentive to control their electric consumption than if the electric bill were divided equally without regard to actual usage by living unit. Sub-metering also gives the maintenance staff a tool to identify units with failed or marginally efficient heating and cooling equipment.
  
  
• A manufacturing plant sub-meters four different assembly processes to analyze and improve energy efficiency by isolating energy costs for each process. The plant benefits by forming a more accurate cost/benefit analysis, to schedule certain processes for off-peak times, and to identify faulty or inefficient equipment.
  
  
• A school district sub-meters facilities that it rents to outside community groups in order to bill them for their share of the energy charges. The district also uses the sub-meters to monitor facilities to better manage energy use and to spot malfunctioning equipment.

These provide only a few examples of how customers can benefit from the flexible, expandable UtilityVision® system to manage energy consumption and, at the same time, position themselves for electricity price deregulation.