Welcome to Emodeler's Website

A digital twin is created of the building's energy using processes, using the industry-standard program for such things: EnergyPlus. The building's operation is then simulated for an average year with and without the efficiency measure in question. The difference is calculated and presented

Rules of thumb, such as "LED's can save 50% of lighting energy," are often used in our industry. These are an average over all building types, and are often exaggerated. Emodeler's digital twin is a representation of your building, and therefore much more accurate than a rule of thumb.

Engineers typically use spreadsheet calculations for these projects. Energy models are generally considered more accurate than spreadsheet calculations, but they are not widely used because the level of effort required to create them. Emodeler is the result of engineers breaking this barrier.

Emodeler Tier-1 requires four inputs: year of construction, square footage, building type, zip code, and optionally heating fuel. The rest of the building is modeled using U.S. averages for the given combination of inputs.

Every year, EIA publishes average utility costs by state for electricity and different heating fuels. They also publish yearly emissions factors associated with electricity from the grid in each state. Emodeler uses the most recent of these values for the corresponding state.

One of the main value propositions of Emodeler is that it is independent of influence from either building owners or technology providers. Our energy models represent the reality of each technology and each building, so that both parties can make decisions based on clear, independent predictions.