Continuous measurement, because an audit is a photograph and a building is a film.
Continuous measurement, because an audit is a photograph and a building is a film.
An energy audit describes a building at a moment. Utility tracking describes it continuously, and it is the difference between knowing what you did and knowing whether it stuck.
The practical version is not expensive. Monthly bill tracking normalised for weather catches a surprising share of problems — a chiller that started running in February, a setpoint override, a failed control — usually within one billing cycle. Interval data catches them in days.
The reason to bother is drift. Savings from a commissioning project decay at something like ten per cent a year if nothing is watching, because buildings are operated by people who solve today's complaint. Tracking is what turns a one-off project into a retained saving.
It is also what an incentive programme's measurement and verification stage requires, and what a municipal reporting bylaw consumes.
A tracking system, weather-normalised baselines, and exception reporting.
Owners and managers with more than one building or one large one.
Licence 9E
A measured EnerGuide evaluation by a registered advisor, a report you can act on, and an honest answer about which programmes are open where you live.