Portoflio Manager Video Tutorials
Quick tip 3: Trouble Shooting
This video series will show you how to use Energy Star Portfolio Manager to help track your building’s energy use and compare its performance to similar buildings across Canada. Portfolio Manager is a free, online energy benchmarking tool that also allows you to report your building’s energy and water use directly to the Ministry of Energy. This video covers trouble shooting tips to help you succeed at creating your property profile, adding your meters, and entering your energy and water consumption data.
Chapters in this video:
- Request utility data early (0:08)
- Include a full year of data (0:25)
- Request whole property data (1:28)
- Use the 'service address' when requesting data from Toronto Hydro (1:46)
- Include the correct utility account holder information (2:26)
- Keep your monthly utility bills (2:17)
- Use the postal code on your property tax bill when creating a property profile (2:43)
- Select the correct units of measurement when you set up your meter (3:15)
- 4 tips for entering data into the "Monthly Entries" table (3:31)
- Start and end dates for billing periods cannot overlap (3:38)
- Set the
Date Meter Became Active
to the day your data starts for that meter (3:47) - Portfolio Manager requires 12 months of data to calculate metrics (4:00)
- Portfolio Manager cannot weather normalize data when billing periods are longer than 65 days (4:38)
- Tip: Display Year(s) Field (5:23)
- General Tip: Close and re-open Portfolio Manager (5:50)
