RETScreen Expert at Goldfin
Make better energy performance decisions with RETScreen Expert
RETScreen Expert is a practical tool for low-cost energy planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. For facility owners and operators, it can help organize energy information, evaluate opportunities, and support clearer decisions.
By bringing versatile functionality and centralized information together in one place, RETScreen Expert can support performance tracking, financial screening, assessment of specific measures, and portfolio-level visibility across multiple buildings.
Why RETScreen Expert Matters
Practical support for day-to-day energy management and longer-term project decisions
Organizations can use RETScreen Expert to monitor performance, evaluate projects, compare upgrade options, and make better decisions across a portfolio of buildings.
Performance Tracking
Actual vs predicted energy use
See how baseline models help monitor performance and verify the accuracy of energy savings.
Financial Analysis
Project viability and payback
Support project screening with cumulative cash flow, payback, and other decision metrics.
Specific Measures
Base case vs proposed case
Compare upgrade options and estimate expected savings before implementation.
Portfolio Insight
Cross-site visibility
Compare buildings, identify outliers, and prioritize where to focus first.
Performance Tracking and M&V
Performance tracking is one of the most practical RETScreen Expert applications for organizations that need to understand whether facilities are performing as expected. It helps compare actual energy use against predicted energy use, making it valuable for monitoring and verifying the accuracy of energy savings.
How We Use RETScreen Expert for Measurement and Verification (M&V)
Goldfin uses RETScreen Expert to create, update, and refine energy consumption baseline regression models in a fast and efficient manner. By helping compare actual and predicted energy use, the platform supports practical measurement and verification work and helps teams monitor, verify, and report electricity savings.
RETScreen Expert allows us to make energy baseline models quickly and efficiently. By helping compare predicted and actual energy use efficiently, RETScreen Expert’s M&V features reduce time spent on routine calculations.
Financial Analysis
Financial Analysis for Project Justification
RETScreen Experts can support the financial side of energy decision-making by helping organizations assess project financial statistics, risk, and whether a project meets internal investment criteria.
The metrics RETScreen Expert provides are the metrics decision-makers often care about most.
RETScreen Expert financial tools make it easy for energy champions to translate their value into the language that earns business case approval.
Assessment of Specific Measures
RETScreen Expert helps estimate prospective projects’ energy savings. By comparing a base case to a proposed case, users can model how equipment changes or efficiency upgrades affect energy use, making project screening and prioritization more practical, efficient, and convenient.
RETScreen Expert can compare key technical and operating details of existing equipment to the same details of actual equipment available in the market.
Cross-Portfolio Visibility and Operational Insight
For organizations managing multiple buildings, RETScreen Expert Portfolio Analysis can support a broader view of energy performance across a portfolio. This is especially relevant for property managers, municipalities, school boards, campuses, and other multi-site organizations that need to compare facilities, identify outliers, and decide where attention is needed most.
Compare buildings more clearly
Cross-site visibility makes it easier to compare similar buildings and identify unusually high energy users.
Prioritize where to act
Portfolio views can help teams focus attention on the facilities or issues most likely to deliver meaningful improvement.
Support reporting and oversight
Dashboard-style views and reporting can make it easier to communicate results and support ongoing operational accountability.
Operational Insight
Portfolio analysis can also help reveal anomalies and operational issues. Sudden spikes, gradual drift, or unusual after-hours consumption can all point to equipment, scheduling, maintenance, or control problems that deserve further attention.
Contact Goldfin
If these use cases match your goals, Goldfin can help connect performance tracking, project screening, and broader energy-management priorities to practical next steps.
