Maalka Inc. — Department of Energy SBIR Phase II: 08b

Description

There exists a lack of integrated software solutions for enabling the administration of scalable, costeffective, and engagementoriented energy efficiency EE programs. While solutions for managing individual aspects of EE programs exist, they are disjointed and do not easily integrate with DoE tools that offer valuable, datadriven insights for improving EE. Furthermore, they are costprohibitive when applied to portfolio scales, and require costly customer relationship management platforms to distribute insights to building owners. As a result, municipalities, utilities, and private organizations are resorting to ad hoc approaches to EE program management that are costly and less impactful. PBER will enable the next generation of EE programs to leverage cuttingedge data integration, analytics, and outreach capabilities to spur EE improvements across large building portfolios. By uniquely facilitating portfolio level management of building assets, measures, and energy data, PBER will accelerate market adoption of energy benchmarking and auditing programs through which data collection and analytical tools developed by the Department of Energy will be applied. The centralization of EE programs will generate efficiencies that reduce program costs and enable a new class of more insightful analytical reports. Finally, PBER will enable these insights to reach an unprecedented number of building owners through novel public profiles. Maalka successfully deployed a fully functioning proofofconcept that integrates data across DoE services to allows users to monitor the collection of BuildingSynccompliant asset and measure implementation data and understand building performance trends across portfolios. The platform also integrates building, asset, and performance data into reports that can be published to publicly accessible URLs. Maalka also conducted a dozen structured interviews with prospective users to inform development, successfully deployed pilots for two customers, and established new partnerships through which PBER can scale in Phase II. In Phase II, Maalka will deepen PBER’s integration with BSXML and AssetScore, more fully integrate energy benchmarking and auditing program management workflows, integrate Phase I feedback to optimize portfolioscale dashboards for managing assets, measures, and performance data for thousands of buildings, and significantly expand the capabilities of Public Profiles to revolutionize how EE programs engage building owners with actionable insights and information. Maalka will also establish new partnerships through which to scale PBER. Beyond the previously covered usecases, PBER will facilitate more flexible, bulk purchasing strategies at the portfolioscale, enable more targeted engagement with building owners to offer specific financial incentives, empower governments to optimize climate policies based on actual data, and facilitate new building technology financing and investment frameworks.