analysing data from meters
The energy team needs the most detailed data to help achieve
the lowest energy consumption. Senior management needs to
know that the people who can influence energy levels in the
organisation are in a position to take whatever action is required.
Making greater use of metered data
The implicit assumption is that the consumer
has no further use for the data stream, or the
information that it contains. As Martin Pollock
noted, “We believe that the principal value of
smart data is at the point of use. The vendor
should have access only to a subset of that
data, which allows it to fulfil its legal obliga-
tions, whatever they might turn out to be when
the CRC process is finalised.”
In terms of a purchaser’s ability to influence
its consumption, the time-sliced information
can provide the basis on which significant
energy-saving decisions can be made. A pre-
requisite is that the vendor makes that data
accessible to the consumer.
If the principle is accepted that the raw HHM
data on electricity consumption is of use to
the consumer organisation in determining its
energy reduction strategy, then it is equally monitoring which yields an analysis at a near
valid to question whether 30 minutes provides real-time level.
sufficient ‘resolution’ to be meaningful. Martin Pollock raised an important point
In examining carbon reduction in the pages about the use of that extra information if it
of The Informed Executive over the past two years, were made available. “It has to be channelled
an increasingly convincing argument has been to the members of the organisation who can
put forward for near real-time analysis and use it most effectively.
reporting of energy consumption. “The energy team needs the most detailed
data to help achieve the lowest energy con-
Selective use of the data obtained
sumption but the chairman is not going to be
interested in the amount of energy consumed
We have established that Half Hour Meters by light bulbs in each room of the company.
working alone may be little more than blunt But senior management does need to know
instruments in terms of producing any in-depth that the people who can influence energy lev-
analysis of electricity usage, but there is the els in the organisation are in a position to take
question of how energy customers will be able whatever action is required.”
to handle the volumes of information gener-
ated even at that half-hourly level, unless it is
fed back to them, analysed on the fly, and pre-
Measuring gas consumption
sented in a readily understandable display. To the extent that there is a growing pre-occu-
If an organisation were prepared to take that pation amongst CRC participants about
route in order to make use of the data being whether to invest in HHM technology volun-
generated, there must be an even stronger case tarily, there is relatively little attention being
for combining HHM with the additional data given to reducing gas consumption.
Half Hour Meters may be little more than blunt instruments for any in-depth analysis of electricity
usage, but energy customers need to make use of the volumes of information that they generate.
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