AEP Ohio, Columbia Gas and JadeTrack
Columbus, Ohio
Excellence Awards - Data Innovation

AEP Ohio and Columbia Gas of Ohio, independent electricity and natural gas utilities, respectively, partnered with software provider, JadeTrack, to offer commercial customers a single platform to obtain energy data for benchmarking in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. These three ENERGY STAR partners are being recognized for this first-of-a-kind collaboration. The noteworthy aspects of this effort include:
- Creating a co-branded, shared customer enrollment website so that customers only need to complete the process once.
- Providing 36 months of historical usage data from both utilities and using web services to send the data to Portfolio Manager.
- Promoting jointly the related benchmarking and energy efficiency events in their Ohio service territories.
- Enabling customers to view electric and gas usage data, and ENERGY STAR metrics in a common dashboard.