EnergyElephant: Cloud software for energy, water, waste and carbon data across many sites

Overview

EnergyElephant was incorporated in Dublin in December 2014, and a 2015 press profile dates the product's launch to 2011. What sets it apart is data handling: it takes utility bills, supplier portal downloads, interval data and meter readings, extracts the figures and validates each bill against tariffs before anything is reported. The company positions it both as an energy management system for ISO 50001 and as a carbon accounting tool for Scope 1, 2 and 3.

Its published customers are mostly Irish and UK organisations with large, dispersed estates: Dublin City Council, Dublin City University, Bank of Ireland, Inland Fisheries Ireland, an NHS foundation trust, the sports retailer Intersport Elverys and the healthcare property investor Elevation. The homepage also carries logos for Salesforce, Zalando, Virgin Media, Kerry Group, AIB and the British Film Institute. The company says it has managed more than €3 billion of energy and sustainability spend, and its LinkedIn page puts its coverage at more than 100,000 buildings, vehicles and other assets in over 80 countries.

Within energy management software, EnergyElephant sits at the bills-and-reporting end of the market rather than the metering-and-control end. Most of the data it handles arrives as invoices and files. Live meter and sensor data is an add-on module, and nothing in its public material covers control, demand response or building management system supervision. It is one of the few vendors in this directory that publishes its prices, which are charged per meter point per month.

Offering

The platform

The main product is a single web application that covers energy, carbon, water and waste. The company describes the work in four steps it calls the "4-Gets": get data, get insights, get actions and get results. In practice that means automated bill processing and validation, dashboards for cost, usage and carbon, degree-day and regression analysis, baselines and benchmarks, monitoring and verification of projects, an opportunity register that records projects considered, completed or rejected, and target tracking against a historic baseline. Data can be grouped into Divisions that mirror an organisation's business units, with owners and access permissions per Division.

Add-on modules

The pricing page lists six add-ons: Automation, which retrieves bills and data from suppliers; Water; Waste; Realtime, for live sensor data with optional hardware installation; Scope 3, covering flights, staff travel, commuting, cloud usage and supply chain sources; and Fleet and vehicles, which tracks fuel, emissions and cost and flags combustion vehicles for electric replacement. A newer Decarbonisation Roadmap Tool formed the company's entry to Ireland's Green Awards in 2026.

Smaller tools

The Meter Reading App for iOS and Android submits a reading from a photo of an electricity, gas or water meter. The Smart Energy Traffic Light shows the share of wind generation and the grid carbon intensity for Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain, with a forecast of the greenest hours. The Virtual Energy Audit produces an energy and carbon dashboard from about two years of uploaded bills.

How it is sold

EnergyElephant is sold as a subscription priced per meter point per month. Published list prices are €25.00 on the Small plan (minimum 10 points), €13.80 on Medium (minimum 50) and €6.60 on Large (minimum 300), with Enterprise priced on request. A meter point is an electricity, gas or water meter, a fuel delivery point, a sensor or sub-meter, or a tracked vehicle. The company's own worked examples run from €250 a month for a three-building business with 10 meter points to €9,900 a month for a global bank with more than 1,000 buildings, vehicles and other assets and 5,000 points. Contracts are normally invoiced annually in advance, users are unlimited under a fair-use policy, historic data and migration from a legacy system are included, and there is a 14-day free trial. Discounts are offered to charities, not-for-profits and educational institutions.

Technology

Architecture and hosting

EnergyElephant is a multi-tenant cloud application. Its privacy policy states that the infrastructure runs on Amazon Web Services and that the service is hosted in the EU, with card payments handled by Stripe; that policy was last updated in May 2018. The company's engineering job advert describes the back-end data processing and data capture automation as written in Python, and lists Django, Postgres and AWS as useful experience. Users work in a browser, and the Meter Reading App runs on iOS and Android.

Getting data in

Bills are the primary input. Users upload the original supplier files as PDF, CSV, Excel or XML, and the platform extracts cost, consumption and meter readings from each one while keeping the file as an audit record. It does not extract data from scanned or photographed bills. The Automation module retrieves bills from supplier web portals, and the company also lists smart meters, sensors, business intelligence systems and APIs as automated sources. The FAQ names quarter-hourly and half-hourly interval data and Green Button files, along with fuels from natural gas and heating oil to LPG, biomass and solar PV, vehicle fuels, fuel cards and electric vehicles. Data that fits none of these can go in through upload templates or forms.

For live data, the Realtime module accepts near-real-time interval data from new or existing meters. The company's own hardware typically reads the pulse output of an energy meter and sends it through an EnergyElephant messaging gateway. Gas metering uses Chatterbox units to meet ATEX requirements, and water and environmental sensors are also offered. Existing data collection systems can connect through an API, which the company discusses with each customer. There is no public API reference, and the site names no support for Modbus, BACnet, MQTT or a building management system.

Processing and analysis

Inbound data is cleaned and standardised before it is stored. Bills are checked against expected consumption and cost, against other bills and interval data for the same meter point, and against local regulatory and tax data, with estimated bills flagged. Degree-day analysis separates heating load, using the June to August average as the non-heating baseload. Carbon reporting follows the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and can use real-time grid emission factors. Reports and exports are prepared for B Corp, CDP, CSRD, Energy Star, ERIC, GRESB, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, SBTi, SEAI Monitoring and Reporting, SECR and the EU VSME standard.

Security

Access is role-based, according to the Bank of Ireland case study, and a customer quoted by the company says administrators can open groups of data to others temporarily or permanently. The company publishes no security certification such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2, and no detail of single sign-on, multi-factor authentication or data retention.

Customers

Public sector

Dublin City Council, the largest local authority in Ireland, set up more than 10,000 properties and assets on EnergyElephant in under two weeks, with bills pulled directly from its electricity, gas and fuel suppliers. The company reports a 95% cut in time spent gathering and processing data and a €150,000 saving over five years from capacity adjustments alone.

Inland Fisheries Ireland uses the platform across 107 locations, including 72 properties, with real-time sensors and a fleet module for its road vehicles, off-road vehicles and boats. The company reports a 45% reduction in energy use and 33% in greenhouse gas emissions. IFI's own account confirms the partnership, says a €36,400 grant from the Public Service Innovation Fund went towards the hardware, software and maintenance, and reports that one property now uses about 60% less than the 18,473 kWh it used in 2017.

An NHS foundation trust uses it to manage 160,000 m² of hospital estate, with data drawn automatically from more than 50 electricity, gas and water meter points and exports prepared for ERIC returns and Display Energy Certificates.

Education

Dublin City University, with ten locations and more than 17,000 students, onboarded all its campuses in under a week. The company reports a roughly 40% fall in carbon emissions from baseline, a 14% improvement in energy efficiency over three years and a 90% cut in reporting time, with the platform supporting the university's ISO 50001 rollout.

Financial services and property

Bank of Ireland's engineering department uses EnergyElephant across about 200 locations in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain, for multi-currency bill validation, maximum import capacity reviews and ISO 50001 work. Elevation, a healthcare real estate investment manager, collects bills and meter readings for more than 150 assets and exports its data for GRESB.

Retail

Intersport Elverys tracks 63 meter points across 45 stores and a distribution centre, with new bills imported from supplier portals. It was introduced to EnergyElephant through Skillnet Ireland's Innovation Exchange.

On Capterra the product holds an average of 4.5 out of 5 from 18 user reviews.

Markets

EnergyElephant's published customers are in Ireland and the UK, and its reporting reflects both: SEAI Monitoring and Reporting for Irish public bodies, ERIC and Display Energy Certificates for NHS estates, and SECR for UK companies. The Smart Energy Traffic Light covers the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The platform handles multiple countries and currencies, prices plans on meter points rather than regions, and the company says it serves users in more than 80 countries.

The sectors it targets are banking and finance, healthcare, multinationals and technology companies, the public sector, real estate and hotels, retail, transport and logistics, and universities and schools. Within those, it sells to four roles: finance teams, sustainability teams, estates leaders and energy managers.

Sales are direct, supported by a self-service free trial and a published procurement guide and tender template. Energy service companies and facilities managers also use it to run their clients' portfolios, adding modules per client and sharing dashboards and exports with them.

Company

Joe Borza and Eoin Ó Fearghail met while studying engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Borza, the chief executive, had about ten years in energy consultancy behind him by 2015, and Ó Fearghail is the chief technology officer. A 2015 profile in TheJournal.ie says the pair launched the company in 2011. Energyelephant Limited was incorporated in Ireland on 1 December 2014 (company number 553473), and its registered office is at The Tower, Trinity Technology and Enterprise Centre, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2. LinkedIn gives 2015 as the founding year.

In early 2015 the company joined Enterprise Ireland's New Frontiers programme for early-stage founders, run at Hothouse. At the time it sold bill analysis to SMEs for an annual charge that Borza put at under 0.5% of a customer's energy costs, and it described its lack of hardware as a point of difference. It has since added metering hardware for the Realtime module and moved towards larger multi-site organisations.

The company is privately held. SoloCheck lists two shareholders, and there is no public record of an outside funding round. Accounts for the year to 31 December 2025 were filed on 29 June 2026. LinkedIn lists 11 employees, in the 11 to 50 band. Staff work remotely and report to the Dublin office.

Recent recognition includes Best Innovative Product at the SEAI Energy Show in 2024, a finalist place for Technology Provider of the Year in the edie Energy & Tech Awards 2026, and a finalist place in the Green Technology (under 50 employees) category of Ireland's Green Awards 2026.