Energy settings

This screen configures energy management: what is metered and where, what a unit of it costs and carries in carbon, and the reductions somebody has committed to. Open it from Administration → Energy. Readings themselves are taken on the Energy screen; this is where the meters and prices are described.

If you don’t see this in your navigation, your administrator can switch the module on under Administration → Modules, or it may not be included in your plan.

The stat strip counts commodities, supply points, rates in force and targets. Each panel below has its own search box — Search commodities, Search supply points, Search tariffs and so on — and its columns can be filtered, so a long list is narrowed where it is. Who can change this.

Lists	Permissions
Commodities, supply points, weather sources	Add supply points and commodities, Configure supply points and commodities
Tariffs, emission factors	Add energy tariffs, Edit energy tariffs and standing charges
Targets	Set energy reduction targets, Edit energy reduction targets

Commodities

Whatever a site buys and measures — electricity, gas, water, diesel, steam. The list shows Commodity, Category, Measured in, CO₂e per unit (the factor in force, or no factor in force) and Metered at (how many supply points).

Field	What it means	Notes
Name	The commodity	Required
Category	Utility, Fuel, Generated or Recovered	Defaults to Utility. A utility arrives through a pipe or wire and is billed; a fuel is delivered and stored, so it can be measured by what is left in the tank
Unit of measure	The unit readings are entered in — kWh, m³, litres, tonnes
Active	Whether it is offered

The carbon factor is not on the commodity. It is dated, under emission factors, because a grid decarbonises and one number would restate every year already reported.

Supply points

Where a commodity is measured — a building’s incoming main, a submeter on one production cell, or one asset. It always belongs to a site. The list shows Supply point (name and code), Commodity, Where, Meter ownership, Dial (for example cumulative register · ×100) and Feeds maintenance (the asset meter it is bound to, or no meter bound). Cumulative and Active are in the column menu. The filter on Where is a tree of sites and locations, so you can tick one floor and find the meters on it. Clicking a row, or the View button on it, opens the supply point read-only. Edit, on the row or inside the view, opens the form below for people who may edit supply points. People with Read the audit trail also see a Change log tab in the view, beside Details, with who changed the supply point and when, so finding out who set a multiplier to 40 no longer means opening a form — and somebody without edit rights can still read it.

Field	What it means	Notes
Code	Short code used in lists and exports	Required; unique in your organisation
Name	What somebody standing in front of it would call it — “Building B incoming main”	Required
Commodity	What it measures	Required
Purpose	Billed, Submeter, Check meter or Generation	Defaults to Billed. A submeter measures part of a billed supply and is not counted twice in a site total
Meter ownership	Who owns the physical meter — the utility, the landlord, or your organisation	Optional. Worth knowing before anybody opens it, exchanges it or disputes what it read
Site and location	The site, or a place in it	Required. Decides who may see the supply point. A site that has been switched off is not offered
Asset	The one asset it measures	Only where it really measures a single asset; nothing apportions consumption across assets
Cumulative register	A dial that climbs and never resets	On by default. Turn it off where each reading is already the quantity used — a delivery note, a tank dip
Rollover value	The value at which the register wraps to zero	A five-digit meter rolls at 99999; without this, the wrap reads as negative consumption
Multiplier	What the dial is multiplied by to give real units	A CT-metered supply reading ×100
Base reading	Where the register stood before it was first read here	The first reading is differenced against this instead of banking nothing
Base consumption	What it was already using when set up	For reference only; it plays no part in any reading
Reading frequency	How often it is due a reading — daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or not scheduled	Monthly by default. Periods start at midnight where the site is, and weeks on Monday. The Energy screen and the field app’s meter round count a supply point as due on this. Not scheduled keeps it listed without ever calling it due
Meter	The asset meter its readings drive	Bound, its readings trigger the maintenance already set against that meter
Weather-driven by	heating or cooling	For a boiler house or a chiller. Leave blank for lighting or a production line. Enables degree-day comparisons
Raises work order	An abnormal period raises a job	One at a time: the next anomaly raises nothing until that job is closed
Work order type	The type of that job	From work order types
Active	Whether it is in use

Tariffs

What a unit costs, effective-dated. A reading is priced by the rate in force on the day it was taken and keeps that price for good. A site rate wins over an organisation-wide one, and a correction is a new row rather than an edit. The list shows Tariff, Applies to, Rate, In force and current or not today.

Field	What it means	Notes
Commodity	What it prices	Required
Site	The site with its own contract	Blank for a rate that applies everywhere
Name	The tariff’s name	Required
Effective from	When it starts	Required
Effective to	When it ends	Blank means this is the current rate
Rate per unit	Price per unit of the commodity	Required
Standing charge	A fixed charge on top	With its currency
Currency	The currency of the rate	Required

Emission factors

How much carbon a unit carries, effective-dated like a tariff. A period is costed at the factor in force while it was consumed. Nothing ships pre-filled: a factor nobody can trace is not one anybody should quote. The list shows Commodity, kg CO₂e per unit, In force, Source and current or not today.

Field	What it means	Notes
Commodity	What it applies to	Required
Site	A site that buys differently	Blank for everywhere
Effective from / Effective to	When it applies	From is required; blank to means current
kg CO₂e per unit	The factor	Required
Source	The publication and its vintage	Required, so somebody else could look it up

Weather sources

Which sensor a site counts its degree days from, and the base temperature it counts against. The list shows Site, Sensor, Base, Last heard and whether it is reporting.

Field	What it means	Notes
Site	The site	Required
Sensor	The outdoor temperature sensor	Required. Sensors come from sensors. An indoor sensor measures the heating, not the weather
Base Temperature C	The outside temperature above which no heating is needed	Required. 15.5 is the British convention and 18.3 the American; do not mix them
Active	Whether it is used

Without a weather source, a site has no degree days and consumption is compared against last year as it was, cold snap included.

Targets

A commitment: so much less of a commodity over a named period, measured against what an earlier period actually used. Where each target stands is shown on the Energy screen. The list shows Target, Over, Commitment (for example down 5% or allowed up 5%) and Period against its baseline.

Field	What it means	Notes
Name	The target	Required
Commodity	What it is about	Required
Site	The site	Blank for organisation-wide
Supply point	One supply point	Blank unless the target is about that supply point
Reduction ratio	The reduction as a ratio — 0.05 for 5% down	Required. A negative ratio allows an increase
Baseline period start / End	The earlier period measured against	Required
Period start / End	The period the target covers	Required
Active	Whether it is tracked

Setting up

Configuration

Commodities

Supply points

Tariffs

Emission factors

Weather sources

Targets