Electric submeter market leader E-Mon, based in Langhorne, has 400,000 performance-optimizing meters deployed in commercial and institutional facilities in every U.S. state and 30 different countries. It has also installed its products in a few houses–the White House, the Vice President’s House in Annapolis, Md., and the home of Bill Gates.
E-Mon, founded in 1981, is experiencing tremendous growth and success as the marketplace seeks more transparency and efficiency in its energy use. Its E-Mon D-Mon V-Class Meter, which recently took home a Silver Award in Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine’s 2009 Product of the Year competition, is designed specifically for the business automation and system integrator market.
It allows users to benchmark energy usage data, monitor usage trends, bill tenants and allocate cost. The meter communicates via five different “languages” through both a hard wire and Ethernet connection and provides 38 different energy-related parameters.
“It’s giving you a lot of information about conservation and power quality,” says Don Millstein, E-Mon’s president and CEO since 1996.
E-Mon has experienced double-digit growth in each of the past two years and increased its staff by 20 percent. It employs about 35 at its new headquarters in Langhorne. In February, E-Mon moved into a new facility near its former location that provided 70 percent more space and allowed it to rapidly scale operations in response to the increase in the E-Mon D-Mon product’s popularity. The facility achieved a 33 percent energy savings through an energy-efficient lighting upgrade, controlling costs with occupancy sensors.
Millstein says the company is focusing on technology that will increase accessibility (internet and wireless) to energy data and the ability to display it.
“We also want to help Pennsylvania and other states and schools with their greening initiatives,” says Millstein.
Source: Don Millstein, E-Mon
Writer: Joe Petrucci