RETScreen Services
Aladaco Consulting Inc. uses RETScreen Expert to help facility owners and operators understand energy use, evaluate opportunities for improvement, and support long-term energy and carbon management decisions.
RETScreen provides a structured platform for organizing utility data, developing energy baselines, modelling facility systems, evaluating energy conservation measures, and tracking performance over time. Aladaco uses RETScreen as a practical energy management tool, helping clients translate raw data and facility observations into clear, actionable next steps.
Turning Energy Data into Practical Decisions
What is RETScreen?
RETScreen is a clean energy management software platform developed by Natural Resources Canada to help organizations assess, monitor, and report on energy performance. It can support energy benchmarking, feasibility analysis, performance tracking, and portfolio-level energy management. For facility owners and operators, RETScreen provides a practical way to connect utility data, facility information, operating conditions, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions in one structured platform.
How Aladaco Uses RETScreen
Aladaco uses RETScreen to support facility and portfolio-level analysis for municipalities, public-sector organizations, utilities, commercial facilities, industrial sites, and multi-unit residential buildings.
Our RETScreen services can support:
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Benchmark analysis to understand current energy and emissions performance
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Feasibility analysis for energy conservation and decarbonization measures
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Performance analysis to monitor energy use and assess changes over time
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Portfolio analysis to compare facilities and support planning across multiple sites
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Energy audit support through structured modelling, baseline development, and measure evaluation
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Measurement and verification support for implemented projects
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Client training and model handover to support ongoing use
Featured White Paper
How Oxford County Built a Foundation for Long-Term Energy Management with RETScreen
Oxford County manages a diverse portfolio of municipal infrastructure, including wastewater treatment plants, water treatment facilities, and multi-unit residential buildings.
As part of facility energy audits, Aladaco developed RETScreen models to establish energy baselines, evaluate conservation opportunities, and support long-term energy management planning across the County's facility portfolio.
Today, Oxford County continues to use RETScreen as one of its tools to better understand energy use and support future energy management decisions.
RETScreen Support Across the Energy Management Lifecycle
1. Organize and Understand Facility Data
Aladaco uses RETScreen to organize utility data, review consumption trends, identify relevant variables such as weather or operations, and establish baseline energy performance. This provides a clearer understanding of how energy is being used and which facilities or systems may require further review.
2. Develop Facility and Equipment Models
Aladaco develops RETScreen models that reflect facility characteristics, equipment information, operating conditions, and building systems. These models support energy audits, feasibility studies, capital planning, and decarbonization analysis by showing how facility changes may affect energy use, costs, and emissions.
3. Evaluate Energy and Carbon Reduction Measures
RETScreen provides a consistent framework for evaluating energy conservation and carbon reduction measures. Aladaco uses RETScreen to assess savings, costs, greenhouse gas reductions, implementation considerations, and financial indicators so clients can compare options and prioritize action.
4. Support Portfolio-Level Planning
For organizations managing multiple facilities, RETScreen can support consistent analysis across a portfolio. Aladaco uses RETScreen to compare facility performance, screen opportunities, support capital planning, and track progress toward energy and carbon reduction goals.
5. Track Performance Over Time
RETScreen models can continue to provide value after an audit, study, or planning project is complete. Aladaco helps clients use RETScreen to monitor performance, update utility data, review changes in consumption, and support ongoing energy management.
Who We Support
Aladaco’s RETScreen services are well-suited to organizations that own, operate, or manage facilities and need a practical way to understand energy use, evaluate opportunities, and support decision-making.
We work with municipalities, utilities, healthcare organizations, school boards, post-secondary institutions, commercial and institutional building owners, industrial and process facilities, multi-unit residential building owners, and public-sector and not-for-profit organizations.
Why Work with Aladaco
Aladaco applies RETScreen as a practical energy management tool, not simply a modelling exercise. We use utility data, facility and equipment information, baseline analysis, and measure modelling to help clients understand performance, compare opportunities, and support implementation planning.
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Practical, transparent, and usable RETScreen models
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Utility data connected to real facility conditions and operating context
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Support for benchmarking, feasibility analysis, performance tracking, and portfolio review
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Consistent assessment of energy, cost, and greenhouse gas impacts
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Clear documentation and model handover support
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Continued support beyond a single audit or study