Signals from the energy edge.
Notes on utility data, trustworthy systems, interoperability and the grid. How we think about the hard parts, and what we're building.
Campus energy data for universities and colleges
Managing energy data across a multi-building campus: central plants, submeters, benchmarking buildings by use type, and capital planning from clean, validated utility data.
Energy tracking for school boards and districts
How school boards and districts track energy and utility bills across hundreds of buildings for budgeting, benchmarking, and capital planning with many meters and many bills.
Automating utility bill tracking across a portfolio
The real cost of tracking utility bills for many buildings in spreadsheets, and how automated capture, validation, and error detection change the economics.
Utility data for real estate ESG reporting
How property owners and managers turn utility bills and meter data into clean data for ESG, GRESB, and net-zero reporting across a portfolio, including tenant metering.
Measurement and verification data for retrofit programs
The utility and meter data pipeline behind M&V and retrofit savings programs: baselines, ongoing reads, and the normalization inputs savings math depends on.
Utility data collection for energy consultants and ESCOs
How energy and sustainability consultants collect utility data across many client accounts using authorized connections, Green Button, and bill digitization.
Municipal energy and GHG reporting
How municipalities manage energy and greenhouse gas data across corporate buildings and fleets, meet Ontario broader public sector reporting rules, and build reliable reporting workflows.
Build vs buy: utility and energy data management
The real cost of building an in-house utility-data pipeline versus buying a platform: labor, maintenance, data quality, and when each choice actually makes sense.
What is an EMIS (energy management information system)?
A plain guide to what an EMIS is and does, how it differs from a BAS/BMS and from ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, and why clean data is the prerequisite.
Utility data for multi-site retail portfolios
Hundreds of stores across many utilities and rate structures. How to standardize, benchmark, and allocate energy cost, spot outlier stores, and support ESG for a chain.
Handling customer utility data securely and compliantly
Utility data is personal information. A Canada-first guide to consent, PII, data minimization, encryption, retention, and frameworks like PIPEDA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.
Interval data vs monthly bills: what each one is good for
Monthly bills settle what you owe; interval data explains why. A practical look at granularity, storage tradeoffs, and when you need 15-minute reads or just the bill.
Building a utility data warehouse for energy and emissions
A practical data model for utility bills and meter reads: accounts, meters, service points, commodities, slowly changing tariffs, lineage, and serving BI and ESG.
Building tune-ups: low-cost operational fixes, verified with data
What a building tune-up inspects and corrects, the low and no-cost operational fixes it finds, reporting cycles, and how weather-normalized utility data proves the savings.
The energy KPIs facility teams should track from utility data
The energy KPIs facility teams should track from utility data, from peak demand and load factor to cost avoidance, plus how to set targets and build a simple monthly scorecard.
Monitoring-based commissioning: keeping savings from fading
Monitoring-based commissioning uses continuous meter data to sustain savings that one-time retro-commissioning lets fade. What it costs, what it saves, and the data pipeline it needs.
Fault detection and diagnostics: what meter data adds to building FDD
How meter and interval data complements BAS fault detection and diagnostics: catching baseload creep, simultaneous heating and cooling, and scheduling faults, plus the savings FDD delivers.
Avoided emissions vs reductions: what Scope 4 can and cannot claim
Why avoided emissions are reported separately and never subtracted from your inventory, where the greenwashing risk lies, and how clean baseline data supports real reduction claims.
Emissions data assurance readiness: getting audit-ready for GHG disclosure
What third-party assurers check, the difference between limited and reasonable assurance, and why utility bills and meter data are the primary evidence behind a defensible GHG number.
Product carbon footprint from utility data: allocating facility emissions
How facility Scope 1 and 2 emissions get allocated to products and units of output, the allocation methods that standards allow, and where utility data feeds the PCF.
Hourly carbon-free energy matching: 24/7 CFE and your interval data
Why hourly (24/7) carbon-free energy matching exposes gaps that annual REC matching hides, and why granular interval utility data is the foundation for it.
Automating utility invoice AP: from hundreds of bills to a clean invoice-to-pay flow
The finance-ops case for utility AP automation: GL coding, cost allocation, approval workflows, catching errors before payment, and accruals, all built on structured bill data.
Standby charges explained: what utilities bill facilities with on-site generation
Standby, backup, and supplemental charges hit facilities with solar, CHP, or gensets. What they pay for, how reservation demand is calculated, and how to audit them.
EV fleet charging and demand charges: why depot bills spike and how to flatten them
Simultaneous fleet charging drives peak demand and triggers demand charges. How managed charging, load staggering, and interval data keep depot electricity costs in check.
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