81%
Electricity is baseload
Something is running all night
The lowest-consumption month still drew 935 kWh a day. Carried across the year that is 341,000 of 420,000 kWh consumed as baseload — in a building occupied 60 hours a week.
Building efficiency intelligence · Toronto, ON
Better decisions.
Better decisions.
Better buildings.
Better results.
SimEffi turns your utility bills and building data into ranked efficiency opportunities, incentive-adjusted economics and a capital roadmap — so you know what deserves your capital before you commit it.
We don't sell equipment
Every assumption stated
Current Ontario programs
Pilot Building
30,000 sq ft · Small commercial office · Toronto
Annual utility spend$91,600
Adjusted annual savings$29,898
Net investment after incentives$169,500
2025 monthly utility cost
130 kW peak
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Illustrative figures for a hypothetical building. Your numbers come from your own bills.
Retrofit simulator · no data required
Before you retrofit it, simulate it.
Set your building, then choose how far you are willing to go. The diagram shows where the energy goes today and how much of it a given strategy actually removes.
Building classification
$91,800 a year
Strategy rigor 22% less energy
Electricity
Natural gas
Avoided
The energy-flow diagram needs JavaScript. The figures below still reflect the selected strategy.
Utility intake → end use → what the strategy removes
Current EUI99 kBtu/ft²
33% above typical
Projected EUI78 kBtu/ft²
after this strategy
Est. annual savings$20,150
before escalation
Net investment$63,000
after est. incentives
Simple payback3.1 yrs
on net investment
HVAC scheduling
Setpoint optimization
Commissioning
Building automation
LED completion
Networked lighting controls
HVAC replacement
Variable-speed fans
Hot-water optimization
Orientation only — not an engineering estimate. End-use splits are type-level averages and incentives are unconfirmed. A full assessment replaces every assumption here with your actual consumption profile, equipment condition and program eligibility.
How SimEffi works
Identify. Quantify. Prioritize. Fund. Act.
Five steps that take a building from a pile of utility bills to a capital plan someone can actually approve.
Identify
opportunitiesScreen the building's data for what is actually costing money — not a generic retrofit list.
Quantify
impact & valuePut cost, savings, payback and confidence against every measure worth considering.
Prioritize
what mattersRank the opportunities so the first dollar goes where the gap is widest.
Fund
with incentivesMatch measures to current programs and flag the timing that protects the funding.
Act
with confidenceMove forward knowing what can be done now and what needs professional validation.
What a screen actually finds
Your cheapest savings usually don't need new equipment.
Three examples of questions an assessment can help you investigate using utility data and building information.
1.3 yrs
Payback on the first move
Scheduling and commissioning
$19,500 of work — $13,125 after incentives — returning about $10,400 a year. No capital approval cycle, no procurement, no equipment.
$180k
Already on the capital plan
The RTUs were about to be replaced
Sizing rooftop units against an uncorrected load is how owners buy 15–25% more capacity than they need. We moved that spend to year three, after the load is fixed.
Where the money hides
Most of it is on the roof, and on a schedule.
Packaged rooftop units running outside occupied hours are the single most common finding in a small commercial office — and the cheapest one to fix. No procurement, no capital approval, no equipment.
The same units are usually the largest line on the capital plan. Getting the order right between those two facts is most of what an assessment is for.
What an assessment covers
Rooftop packaged units at end of service life — the $180,000 line in the illustrative example, deferred for later planning.
The deliverable
One assessment. A sequence you can actually approve.
A report written for the person who has to defend the spend. Every number traces back to a bill or a stated assumption — including the ones that argue against spending money.
- SimEffi Score™: one high-level read on your building
- Your building’s current performance picture
- Prioritized opportunities — including what needs further validation
- SimEffi Incentive Action Plan™ with official program links
- Capital roadmap: now, next and later
- Estimated investment, savings and planning payback
- Practical next steps, and what can wait
SimEffi Incentive Action Plan™
We don't just estimate incentives. We show you where to go next.
For each recommended measure, SimEffi screens current government and utility programs, explains why the measure may fit, flags critical timing requirements and links you to the official program page.
Potential match
Program appears relevant based on measure type and building characteristics. Eligibility is not yet confirmed.
Investigate
More project or building information is required before a pathway can be assessed.
Confirmed
Used only after eligibility has actually been verified with the program administrator.
Our value
Why building leaders choose SimEffi
Data driven
We analyze real building data to uncover what actually matters — not what is easiest to sell.
Financially focused
We quantify costs, savings, paybacks and incentives so you can decide with confidence.
Prioritized roadmap
We help you focus on the right opportunities in the right order, sized to a real budget.
Incentive intelligence
We screen available programs and show you how to access funding before you commit.
Actionable reports
Clear, practical and executive-ready — so you can act, not just collect data.
How it works
Three steps to your roadmap.
1
Share your building information
Provide the information you already have about your building and energy use.
Your part
2
SimEffi evaluates the opportunities
We evaluate potential efficiency and capital opportunities and review the findings.
Our part
3
Receive your prioritized roadmap
See where to invest first, what can wait and what may qualify for incentives.
Your decision
Straight answers
Before you ask
Is this an energy audit?
No, and we are careful about the distinction. This is a preliminary opportunity screen — it tells you what to investigate first and roughly what the economics look like. It is not an ASHRAE Level I, II or III audit and it is not stamped by a professional engineer. For most owners it is the step that decides whether a full audit is worth commissioning, and on which building.
What data do you actually need?
Your recent utility bills and basic information about the building, how it operates and any planned capital work. A utility portal export is ideal. More detailed data makes the results sharper, but it is not required to start.
Do you sell or install any of what you recommend?
No. We do not sell equipment, we do not take referral fees from contractors, and we are not a controls vendor with an analysis product attached. That is the point — when a report says to skip window replacement, nobody lost a sale over it.
How accurate are the savings numbers?
They are planning estimates, shown as ranges rather than a single confident figure, with confidence stated for each opportunity. Opportunities that need more information are flagged for validation rather than recommended outright.
What if the answer is “do nothing”?
Then that is the report. Some buildings are already well run, and some measures do not pencil out at any building. An assessment can recommend against a measure outright, or defer it until it is validated. A screen that never says no is not a screen.
Will the incentives actually come through?
We estimate them and tell you what has to be true. Rates and rules change within a fiscal year, and most electricity-side programs require pre-approval before you purchase equipment or sign a contract — the most common way owners lose funding. We flag the sequencing and link the official program page; you or your contractor file the application.
Intelligence today. Efficiency for years.
Find out which building improvement deserves your capital first — and which one can wait.