Organizations around the world are under immense pressure to control annual energy costs and achieve sustainability commitments included in their ESG policies. Although these are two very different missions, their workstreams have a common starting point. Both require the development and maintenance of a comprehensive, detailed, and accurate database of your organization's historical, current, and future energy invoice data.

Your energy database is the foundation for your energy management and sustainability project's success. Without it, your initiatives will remain mere talking points, never making a real operational, financial, or environmental impact on your organization.

In building your annual energy cost management strategy, readily accessible and accurate energy invoice data enables you to efficiently implement critical initiatives, including invoice validation, rate analysis, procurement, and budgeting.

An accurate and current energy database allows you to develop a comprehensive carbon emissions benchmark, track changes in your carbon footprint, accurately report progress against your targets and comply with government regulations and voluntary disclosure platforms.

In assessing energy database solutions, it is important to recognize that not all databases are equal. Some capture only limited energy invoice data points and lack essential data quality assurance (QA) and cleansing processes.

NUS has built the IT systems, personnel, and expertise to quickly and efficiently develop and maintain your energy invoice database. Our solution captures all critical information from your energy invoices, including pdf images, and employs advanced data QA and cleansing processes. Moreover, our solution is scalable and works for an individual country, a geographic region, or globally. Today, we process over 1 million energy invoices per year from over 60 different countries.

An accurate and complete energy database is the cornerstone of any energy cost management and sustainability program. Building and maintaining a database containing your energy invoice data is the initial challenge – Invoicing and Data. The subsequent challenge is coding and deploying an intelligent and easy-to-use Energy Information System (EiS), providing various stakeholders and departments seamless access to this valuable information. Moreover, the system needs to be intuitive, secure, and provide powerful reporting and analytical tools.

In short, an EiS system should unlock the value of your energy database so that stakeholders in any department - accounts, real estate, procurement, engineering, or sustainability can easily share and leverage data to drive and achieve an organization's overall energy policies and objectives.

NUS Consulting Group understands that developing a scalable and flexible system is expensive and resource-intensive. Moreover, the expertise required to build a system is typically not a core competency for most organizations. This is why we developed NUSdirect – our industry-leading EiS system currently being used by several of the world's largest businesses. Some of NUSdirect's key features include -

•  Customizable User Dashboard and System Preferences
•  Five Languages Supported (English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German)
•  Intuitive Interface and Initial User Training
•  Definable User Access Controls
•  Data Quality Assurance Algorithms
•  Invoice Data Capture with Audit Trail to Image
•  Powerful Reporting and Analytical Tools
•  Data Drill Down for Quick Report Deep-Dives
•  Dynamic Report System (DRS) Module
•  Interval Meter Data Storage and Access
•  Supply Contract Storage and Access
•  ISAE-3402/SSAE18 (SOC1-Type II) Certified
•  Automatic System Failover / Colocation Support
•  "Strong" Password/Automatic User Lock
•  Flexible Carbon Emission Tracking and Reporting Module
•  Detailed Budgeting Tracking and Reporting System

NUS Consulting Group’s Invoicing and Data services combined with NUSdirect provides organizations with the necessary information and tools to unlock and leverage their energy data to optimize their energy management and sustainability programs. Energy data and the ability to access and share this information are critical to controlling energy costs, complying with regulations, and measuring progress against sustainability targets such as the RE100, Net Zero, or internal sustainability goals.