Groups and benchmarks module
The Groups and Benchmarks module is a powerful tool that helps to highlight buildings and meters with abnormal cost, use, or demand. These buildings or meters often offer the greatest opportunity for cost reduction and energy savings.
PDF to help you get started with groups and benchmarks.
Filters
By default the last 12 months* (not including the current month or the last month) of billing data is displayed. You can select your own time period in the Filters menu.
Menu selections are persistent from session to session and do NOT reset to default when you log out.
Categories exist under Building Groups and Meter Groups to help you organize your groups.
Categories and groups with no members are not displayed in the tree, empty groups can be managed by clicking on Building Groups or Meter Groups.
Available charts
- High to Low
- Low to High
- Scatter Plot: Visually identify outliers
- Savings Opportunities: Savings opportunity if a group member is reduced to median
- Details: Several columns of data for each group member
Hide a group member
Occasionally you may not be able to improve the performance of a group member and you want to hide it from benchmarks and the calculations.
- Select the hide icon to exclude the member.
- The benchmark calculations and median update automatically.
- To include the member again, on the Buildings or Meters tab add the member back in by clicking the Show icon.
Empty categories and groups are hidden
When a category has no groups it is not displayed in the tree view on the left.
When a group has no members (or members you have permission to view) the group is hidden from the tree view on the left.
Empty categories and groups are visible in the management page.
Data rules for groups
Voided and accrual bills are not included in graphs or charts.
Account charges are included in building benchmarks but not meter benchmark data.
*12-month charts
12-month charts display data for the most recent 12 months, not including the current month or the last month.