Environmental & Risk Management / Energy Management / Energy Manager

Measurement and Verification Report

The Measurement and Verification reports provide critical data for evaluating your energy consumption and costs. These reports use the Weather Model data that enables you to compare how much energy you would have used based on the baseline period usage patterns, and this year's conditions (such as weather and number of days.)

See The Weather Model topic for a description of how the application calculates this data.

The Measurement and Verification tasks presents charts in a series of tabs. You can set a restriction, and select a tab to see the chart. You can also view the data that the chart is based on.

Selecting the Data

The Measurement and Verification report provides both a drill-down selection list and a Filter console. These features work together to help you define the data shown in the charts.

Drill-down selection lists: You can report on any level within the drill-down selection list. The program rolls up data from the building to the site to the city to the region to the country. The charts sum the appropriate data to the level you select in the selection list. When you switch between tabs, the data remains filtered to the level you have selected.
Filter console: You can use the Filter console to show only data from a specific range of Billing Periods, or the units used to display energy consumption (MMBTU or kWh). Select the date range and /or the units and click Apply to generate the chart for that time period or units. When you switch between tabs, the data remains filtered to your selection in the drill-down selection list.
Note: The selection to display MMBTU or kWh applies only to energy consumption. The other measurements will still display using their standard setting. For example, power demand is always expressed as kW.

Viewing Data Details

The Measurement and Verification charts are presented in tabs. You can see the data for the charts in the following ways:

Data: Clicking the Data button will open a window containing all the archived bills that make up the data at the current filter level. You can view the Document associated with a specific archived bill by clicking the Document button in the window.
XLS: Clicking the XLS button will download all the archived bills that make up the data at the current filter level to Microsoft Excel.
DOC: Clicking the DOC generate a paginated report of all the archived bills that make up the data at the current filter level.

Measurement and Verification Reports

The Measurement and Verification chart reports are presented in tabs below the Filter console. Use the arrows on either side of the tabs to see additional tabs.

The Measurement and Verification reports include the following :

Utility Cost by Type: This is a pie chart showing the Total Utility Cost by Utility Type.
Utility Cost With Consumption: This is a dual-axis bar chart showing the Total Utility Cost next to the Total Consumption by Billing Period.
Electric Cost With Rate: This is a dual-axis bar chart showing the Total Electric Cost next to the Electric Rate by Billing Period.
Gas Cost With Rate: This is a dual-axis bar chart showing the Total Gas Cost next to the Gas Rate by Billing Period.
Electric Load Factor: This is a bar chart showing the Electric Load Factor by Billing Period. This chart is only applicable at the Building Level of the Navigation Tree.
Electric Consumption with Model: This is a bar chart showing the Total Electric Consumption next to the Total Electric Consumption Model data by Billing Period. This enables you to evaluate how much electricity you would have used based on the baseline energy period's consumption patterns compared to your actual electricity consumption based on your energy bills.
Electric Demand with Model: This is a bar chart showing the Total Electric Demand next to the Total Electric Demand Model data by Billing Period. This enables you to evaluate how much energy demand you would have had based on the baseline energy period's demand compared to your actual electricity demand based on your energy bills.
Gas Consumption with Model: This is a bar chart showing the Total Gas Consumption next to the Total Gas Consumption Model data by Billing Period. This enables you to evaluate how much gas you would have used based on the baseline energy period's consumption patterns compared to your actual gas consumption based on your energy bills.