MONITOR ENERGY DEMAND

Know Your Energy Patterns

Energy Efficiency starts with monitoring and building a good understanding of the patterns for all or parts of your building energy demands, onsite energy production, and utility loads:

Present complete utility’s load picture Break down load distribution by areas, circuits, equipment groups, etc Gain insight into the shape of demands Analyze increase or decrease in energy usage for one or more circuits Identify when peak loads occur and their durations Determine whether the peak loads correspond to the months in which rates are scheduled to be higher Determine if peak loads correspond to the Time of Use Peak Rate Identify periodic and seasonal variations Identify specific anomalies: energy use from day-to-day, week-to-week; “rogue peaks” Combine onsite generation (e.g. solar PV) data See how onsite generation reduces peak demand levels, etc.