Energy Management

Energy Management enables you to monitor the energy consumption of equipment attached to your UPS. This includes carbon dioxide consumption and your energy costs.

Energy Management accesses data on Schneider Electric servers by using the Internet.

The energy report gives you information on Energy consumed in kilowatts per hour and the Cost incurred in your local currency.

On installation, PowerChute references your operating system and determines your system locale. From the locale, PowerChute determines average prices and emissions for your country. (See Energy Settings).

CO2: The carbon dioxide that was emitted in generating this energy. This is measured over the chosen time period in kilograms or pounds.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas — it traps heat radiation that would otherwise escape from Earth — and is a primary cause of climate change.

The energy report period is by default from the PowerChute Serial Shutdown installation date today.

You cannot enter a date prior to the PowerChute installation date in the From field. You cannot enter a date after today’s date in the To field.

If you change the From date, this new date becomes the default, whereas the To date is always today’s date.

(If you have performed a PowerChute upgrade, the From date is still the original installation date).

For some UPS devices, cumulative energy from your UPS is displayed in the Cumulative energy from your UPS field at the bottom of the screen. This will always correspond to the kWh on the UPS LCD. It is the total energy usage of the UPS, so will also include any energy used prior to the PowerChute installation.

If you replace the UPS supporting your server with another UPS, the existing energy report values are not deleted.

With this screen, you can change the country used in energy calculations, the cost of your energy, and your CO2 emissions calculation.

If you change your country here, ALL historical values, including CO2 emissions, are deleted. This is because energy costs vary between countries, so the historical costs would be very likely inaccurate.

The country selected is used to calculate average costs. However, if you know your energy costs from your electricity bill, then you can use the Cost per < Kilowatt/Pounds>Hour column to input a different value.

Click on the plus symbol at the foot of the Energy Cost History table to add another row.

Click on the pen icon to edit a row and the bin icon to delete a row.

If you delete a row, it will not be used in any future energy calculation.

The costs and dates on display here combine to generate the report on Energy Reporting.

For example, suppose your screen by default displays 04/25/2017 with a cost of 0.1. You add a row with a date of 10/30/2017 and a cost of 0.15.

For the example, let’s say today’s date is January 3, 2018 (displayed as 01/03/2018).

In calculating the total cost, the Energy Reporting screen uses the 0.1 cost per hour for the dates 04/25 to 10/29 in 2017, and the 0.15 cost per hour for the period from 10/30/2017 to 01/03/2018.