Energy Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Energy Manager

4.6

(31)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Energy Manager

Energy Manager by Brightly Software is the smarter, easier-to-use energy management solution designed for facilities managers to manage utilities, reduce waste, and reinvest in energy efficiency where it matters most. Now a Siemens company, Brightly's cloud-based solution collects, digitizes, and consolidates a building's utility data, allowing teams to quickly and confidently identify billing errors and underperforming buildings - delivering real operational savings. This digitized and centralized approach helps facilities and operators make data-driven decisions and investment recommendations with real-time data, reports, and charts.

Energy Manager offers unlimited reporting capabilities, providing simple tools to customize reports and views to meet the multiple reporting needs across multiple stakeholders. Teams can also leverage rich insights gathered from key utility data, such as use/cost, carbon emissions, budget data, avoided cost, ENERGY STAR(r) rating, and more.

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Energy Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1.00

No plan information available

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Energy Manager Features

Popular features found in Energy Management
Alerts/Escalation
Benchmarking
Compliance Management
Contract/License Management
Cost Analysis
Data Visualization
Emissions Monitoring
Forecasting
Risk Management
More features of Energy Manager
Activity Dashboard
Cost Tracking
Customizable Reports
Greenhouse Gas Tracking
Historical Reporting
Weather Normalization Reporting

Energy Manager Integrations

Microsoft Excel

Energy Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

74%

16%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.7

Functionality

4.6

John D.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Managing Energy data and use to make data driven decisions!

Our experience has been positive - we are finding the easy of getting data out of the program and reports with ease and now not having to do double entry with invoice loading and usage. Reports are easier than in the past and not having to use third party software to crest and populate. We are still determining our full usage - the customer service has been outstanding and professional. They are extremely knowledgable of their product but very helpful and the training is outstanding and on-going!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It was an module of our work order system and the integration was easy - almost plug and play since we already had the Global data information. A wonderful tool for managing the data of our energy as well as budget funding for the energy.

Cons:

Not sure - still working to find at all that it does - so much power and capability and a very useful tool so we are still working to figure out all it does.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review! We are so thankful for clients like you and that we get the opportunity to help you and your team own your operations.

Replied April 2019

Michael R.

Verified reviewer

Facilities Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Energy Manager as a Energy Management Tool

Having a woven connection into my EPA reporting is a significant benefit, and it is especially useful for finding the reporting items that senior management finds compelling. It was worth the increased cost of moving up from less compatible, less expensive programs. Energy Manager has a detailed set of modules that can really tune your reporting and allow you to measure what you are managing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Once I was able to sit down with The loaded and functional Energy Manager program, I found the interface to be very intuitional. I also found that the reporting was easy to set up and draw out the wanted information. Inputting current billing information is easy, if you have the time. I don't have the time, so having the Dude team able to pull the information from the same sources I do and populate the billing information for me is going to keep my reporting information and Energy Star stats always up to date. That's a win.

Cons:

I was able to try out the Interval Data module but it wasn't successful as an application for us as the information was about 2 days behind. having real-time information is the best way to utilize that data.

Reasons for choosing Energy Manager

It was a really attractive and developed interface and reporting capability that made it easy to choose the Energy Manager product.

Reasons for switching to Energy Manager

I made the switch from EnergyCAP because I felt That the main feature they use to tell you about your dollar savings history is disingenuous. It seems to add savings to your overall amount continuously, but doesn't discount forward-facing losses that sneak in as fluctuations occur in building efficiency trends. The program also had cumbersome and sometimes confusing reporting metrics.

Kevin K.

Verified reviewer

Military

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed September 2025

Wyoming Army Natinal Guard

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The product delivers what I need when the data is input completely. I mainly use it for usage and consumption values and for bill historical record keeping.

Cons:

The data input team does not input all the data. When a bill has multiple account on the same bill, they will not enter in the data for each account to the appropriate section. This makes for missing data which skews the usage and consumption and also impacts other reporting requirements such as ISR. Due to this the bill gap analysis is large and growing. I have even sent in the bills multiple times with negative results.

Lynnea C.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Energy Manager

Using Energy Manager helped us identify and extensive gas & water leak in 2 of our buildings. Without this program we had to use an Excel spreadsheet and there was too much room for errors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to input the information. The reports are used to identify leaks or overuse in our buildings. Cost comparisons month-to-month is very useful.

Cons:

I believe that the way the report building features could have more presets templates, however it is fairly easy to set one up yourself.

Reasons for choosing Energy Manager

Cost and easy to use.

Reasons for switching to Energy Manager

Spreadsheet was difficult to see the usage/cost trends.

Marci M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2025

Excellent choice for Utility Management

The customer service is top notch, and the available training bank has answered every one of my questions so far.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of entering utility bills and changing information Clear and concise reporting that can be easily customized

Cons:

The time it takes for me to enter complex bills, but that would be solved with the auto integration feature that we don't have currently.

Don B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Great Product

Easy to enter data, either by importing from a spreadsheet or individual accounts. For those that are data-handicapped, but speak to visual presentations, the EM can easily present many types of graphs. Those that in tools that Excel provides, such as Pivot Table, Power Pivot, the EM does not choke on downloading decades of data into a format that can be readily used by those tools. What stands out the most is that our entire database spanning decades of monthly data can be downloaded into an Excel spreadsheet without any hick-ups. Uploading energy reports to state agencies is a breeze.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It simple, yet powerful enough for regular energy data management. All its tools are well designed and pose no problems. If there are any issues, they are minor. Excellent technical support.

Cons:

Nothing in particular stands out, as there are many functions that I have not explored as much, but most are very useful. One minor cosmetic that should be addressed is the format of date, which in a downloaded form appears as text, which requires Text-to-columns manipulation in Excel.

Mark A.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Really good for data collection

We use the input data collection more than anything. So overall we have a good experience.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The easy of inputting data. The included reports work very well.

Cons:

Two items I do not see our data in Portfolio Manager. Reports are too difficult to produce.

Keeley S.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed September 2025

Easy Energy Manager

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Energy Manager is extremely easy to use and figure out. We love the ease with which we can read the reports. It is very clear.

Cons:

Nothing really, Energy Manager has a great support group who have helped when I was first using the system.

Love F.

Verified reviewer

Facilities Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

PLU - Energy Manager Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Integration and data export went smoothly after capturing the historical data we wanted pulled from FAMIS. The cloud service and program is easy to use and allows for correction of any data entry errors with ease. I even like how you can attach the actual bills to each specific account. This is a robust program that has lots of features I am sure I don't even know about or have come across yet

Cons:

If you don't use certain reports or add them to Quick Links you may forget what report to use when you go look for it the next time. When creating a detailed import spreadsheet you have to be sure to line up the columns and rows to the tag etc., this can be challenging to remember to include all the requirements if you need to add one down the road (and don't have your initial notes from years ago)

Lyn D.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

My experience with Energy Manager

Our City is using the Energy Manager to make informed decisions regarding best management practices with sustainability, building energy retrofits, and water usage monitoring and conservation. It's been a valuable tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software has an easy to use dashboard and overall interface. It's very intuitive and the reporting is very useful. The software allows employees in an organization varying levels of accessibility and user privileges. What I like most about the software is the ability to make organizational sustainability decisions based on the data and the ability for our Public Works Department to identify inefficient facilities or irrigation leaks and issues in parks. The software has many useful applications.

Cons:

Can't say there's anything I don't like about the software. Training from Dude Solutions is necessary to take full advantage of the reporting and features.

Vendor Response

Thank you for taking the time to review our solution! We are so glad to hear that Energy Manager is helping your city make informed energy decisions and drive future conservation efforts.

Replied April 2019

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