Case Study
Energy & Accounting: Riverside County, CA’s Dynamic Duo
1 Summary Riverside County, CA was created on May 2, 1893 from parts of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties and, by land area, is the 26 th largest county in the United States at 7,300 square miles. To serve such a large and diverse area, the County government maintains more than 1,800 facilities and is tasked with managing approximately 4,500 utility accounts across 57 different vendors. Staying on top of it all requires a high level of organization and teamwork amongst county staff, and when Janet Purchase signed on to be the county’s energy manager, she quickly recognized that the legacy utility bill management tools were not up to the task. Piggybacking a recent bid by neighboring Orange County, Riverside was able to purchase an EnergyCAP Enterprise software license and p