3. Add energy use information (energy meters & monthly data)

You can add energy use information manually or by setting up an automatic data exchange with your utility provider. Please see below for specific instructions based on your utility provider.

Madison Gas & Electric customers (MG&E)

MG&E Business Customers should use the MyMeter tool to add energy use information to their ESPM property. This will automatically create meters and add monthly energy data to your ESPM property from MyMeter.  

To learn more, please visit the MG&E Website (Website Link) to 

• Sign up for MyMeter (Website Link) or

• Follow the steps in the Benchmarking Guide (PDF Link) on how to automatically create meters and add monthly energy data to your ESPM property from MyMeter.

Whole-building data - As a building owner or representative you are responsible to report whole-building data, including tenant spaces and common areas. To obtain tenant data as an MG&E customer you will need to fill out the form “Request for Whole-Building Energy Usage Data” (Website link) and follow the instructions. Tenant authorization is required for the information to be released so please allow for extra time. Please contact business@mge.com  for any additional assistance.

Alliant Energy customers 

Alliant customers will need to add their property’s energy use information manually to their ESPM property. 

Whole-building data - As a building owner or representative you are responsible for reporting energy use for the whole building, including tenant spaces and common areas. To obtain tenant data as an Alliant customer, you will need to fill out and submit the form “Authorization to Release Information” or provide a Letter of Authorization to allow Alliant to release the aggregated energy use data as a spreadsheet. Tenant authorization is required for the information to be released, so please allow for extra time. 

Please contact businesscenter@alliantenergy.com or visit the Business Resource Center (Website link) for additional information. 

Adding energy use manually

STEP 1 - Select your property from the MyPortfolio tab and click on the Energy tab. Click on ‘Add a Meter’. 

STEP 2 - Select the type(s) of meter(s) (Electric or Gas, etc.), the energy source (Purchased from the grid or generated onsite) and enter the number of meters for each energy type. After adding this information, click ‘Get Started’

STEP 3 - Click the white rectangle below ‘Date Meter became active’ to start adding the required information about your meters:

• Meter name (can include type of meter and account # for easy identification)

• Meter type (Electric, Gas or other)

• Units (Electric meter units = kWh; Gas meter units = GJ)

• Data meter became active

After adding this information, click ‘Create Meter(s)’

STEP 4 - Once you have created your meter(s), you are now ready to add monthly energy use information. There are three options to add monthly energy data to your meter in ESPM: 

• Option 1: Add monthly data manually based on your monthly energy bill(s)

  • Click ‘add entry’ and add the required information for each month, then click ‘Save Bills’

• Option 2: Add monthly data in bulk from an excel spreadsheet

  • Download the single-meter spreadsheet, add the required information

and upload the spreadsheet to ‘Upload data in bulk for this meter’

Click ‘Continue’ to move on to the final step of setting up your meters.

Note: You are not required to enter monthly data right away to finish setting up your meters.

STEP 5 - Select which meters to include for your property and confirm if these meters represent the total energy usage of your property, or only represent the partial energy usage of the building.

When you have completed this step, click ‘Apply Selections’.

Whole-building data - As a building owner or representative, you are responsible for reporting energy use for the whole-building, including tenant spaces and common areas. Please review the information provided for MG&E and Alliant customers at the top of this page or contact your utility provider for more information. 

For more information and to contact the Help Desk, Submit a Ticket for 'Help using Energy Star Portfolio Manager'.