Analyse and monitor energy use
How analysing your energy usage data can allow you to better monitor your business energy consumption.
Once you have collected your energy usage data you can analyse the energy spend for the business as a whole by:
- converting all energy sources to the same unit (kilowatt hours)
- using a spreadsheet to analyse the use of each energy source on a month-by-month basis
- calculating energy costs at different intervals to use as a benchmark to measure energy-saving improvements
- identifying and measuring the factors, such as weather conditions, that cause your energy use to vary
From this you can see:
- if you're using too much energy
- how your current energy use compares with past figures
- how your business compares with the industry average if benchmarks are available
- the impact of the factors that affect your consumption
You can also do a more complicated analysis to show the impact of the factors that cause your energy consumption to vary.
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