Energy management

Energy management asks whether a site is using more of a utility than it should be, and turns a reading into a finding rather than just a chart.

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Findings, not just a chart

The screen leads with what it can see that nothing else can:

• A supply point nobody has read. No reading means no consumption, no consumption means nothing to compare, and a meter nobody walks past looks identical to one that used nothing — everywhere except this banner.
• A period that’s mostly a utility’s estimate. An estimated bill is deliberately left out of anomaly detection, so it’s invisible to the findings list rather than merely absent from it.

Below that, a bar chart of consumption against expectation, and a list of findings — periods that came in worse than expected, either against the site’s own history or against comparable supply points — each with the method its baseline was worked out from stated in words rather than left as an enum.

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Recording a reading

Recording a reading lives on this screen, not in settings — it’s the operational act, and it belongs where the person transcribing a bill or reading a dial actually is. Configuring what’s metered (commodities, tariffs, targets) is a decision made once when a contract’s signed, and lives under Configuring energy. Readings can also be taken on the field app’s dedicated meter-reading round, which covers both a utility supply point and an asset’s own meter in the same walk and queues offline for exactly the rooms and basements a reading round usually means.

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Targets

A reduction target is a commitment — so much less of a commodity over a named period, against what an earlier period actually used — set under Configuring energy. Where each target stands (ahead, on track, behind, met, missed) shows here, because that’s a fact about the meters rather than about the decision to set it.

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Weather and carbon

Consumption can be degree-day normalised against an outdoor sensor, so “the boiler used more gas in January” and “January was colder” aren’t the same finding. Every reading also carries a carbon figure (kg CO₂e) from the emission factor in force when it was taken — dated, so a cleaner grid later never restates a year already reported.

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On an asset

An asset with a supply point pointed at it shows an energy over the last year panel on its Costs tab: what it used, what it cost, and its carbon figure, by commodity. An asset with nothing metered shows as not metered rather than as zero — the two are different facts, and the panel is deliberately built to keep them apart.