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Configuration for Energy management — decided once when a contract’s signed, separate from the day-to-day act of recording a reading.

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Commodities and supply points

A commodity is whatever a site buys and measures — electricity, gas, water, diesel, compressed air — with the unit every reading against it is denominated in. A supply point is one meter or connection for a commodity, and can name an asset, a location, or just a site; it’s also reachable directly from the header of the Energy screen, since adding one is often the answer to “this meter isn’t here yet”.

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Tariffs

What a commodity costs, so a reading turns into a cost as well as a quantity.

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Emission factors

How much carbon a unit of a commodity carries, effective-dated the way a tariff is — a period is costed at the factor in force while it was consumed, so recording a cleaner grid later never restates a year already reported. Nothing ships seeded: a factor whose source you can’t name isn’t a figure worth quoting.

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Weather sources

Which sensor a site counts its degree-days from, and the base temperature to count against — an outdoor sensor, since an indoor one measures the heating rather than the weather. The base is jurisdictional (15.5°C is the British convention, 18.3°C the American); mixing bases across sites makes the years incomparable. Without a weather source, a site simply has no degree-days and consumption is compared against last year’s figure as-is, cold snap included.

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Targets

A reduction target names a commodity, an optional supply point or site, a commitment (down by some percentage, or an allowed increase), a period, and the baseline period it’s measured against. Where each one stands is read on the Energy screen, not here.