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Energy Efficiency Program Sponsor
Partner Success Story
Energy Efficiency Program Sponsor Partner
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
245 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94105
Business: Customer Energy Efficiency
Keith Forsman, Sr. Program Manager
Phone: 415-973-2380
Email: kef1@pqe.com
Service Product Provider
Kiongozi Inc.
P.O. Box 1333, Tiburon, CA 94920
Julie Barsky, Managing Partner
Phone: 1(800)248-2218x86
Email: ibarskv@kionqozi.com
Kiongozi's Benchmarking Team provides the first automated integration solution directly connecting
utility usage and billing data with EPA's Portfolio Manager.
Project Scope
Kiongozi's consulting team provided technical services to Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) for the
purpose of integrating PG&E customer billing data with EPA's Portfolio Manager. The team partnered with EPA
to redesign the data services provided by Portfolio Manager, enabling two-way data integration of customer
facilities in Portfolio Manager with their corresponding utility usage and billing data. After EPA completed
modification of Portfolio Manager's data services, Kiongozi's consultants designed and integrated a fully
automated system to continually keep the facilities of PG&E's customers in Portfolio Manager up to date with
the latest utility data.
Project Summary
Kiongozi's consulting team designed and implemented the automated integration of PG&E's internal customer
facility energy data with Portfolio Manager. The team produced a secure and reliable data integration system
and continues to help keep the system up to date with the latest Portfolio Manager upgrades.
•	Number of Facilities
The integration system covers all PG&E customer benchmarking through Portfolio Manager
automatically. This solution provides the automated transfer of building energy use and cost data for
about 1,000 PG&E customer facilities, with plans to serve 40,000 more facilities over the next two years.
•	Energy Savings
By efficiently connecting utility data with Portfolio Manager, the automated interface allows customers
quick access to the consumption data needed to benchmark their facilities while continually monitoring
their facility performance into the future. Easy access to accurate facility ratings raises awareness of
changes in facility efficiency and generates heightened interest in energy efficiency initiatives that
benefit customers and their energy service providers.
•	Cost Effectiveness
The Kiongozi team's streamlined implementation of the automated interface allowed for minimal IT
development costs (<$100,000). Leveraging the team's depth of knowledge and experience in utility
billing systems, energy efficiency program tracking, and database and web service technology equates
to superior results and minimized cost expenditure.
•	Other Benefits
The automated benchmarking solution allows PG&E the ability to easily offer facility benchmarking to
their customers while leveraging the features and benefits provided by Portfolio Manager as a value-
added service for utility customers. This, in turn, provides a vital service to PG&E for assisting
customers in managing their energy consumption, resulting in increased customer participation in utility
sponsored energy efficiency, demand response, and alternative generation programs.
Distinguishing Value
Kiongozi is unique in its combined strengths in IT solutions resources, utility data, and energy efficiency related
experience. The success of this project now affords PG&E customers who use Portfolio Manager the ability to
continually monitor the on-going energy performance of facilities by automatically keeping all energy
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