摘要 |
A computer implemented system and method for assisting in the visual analysis of the operational efficiency of major energy consuming systems at large facilities and particularly the consumption of electricity at commercial, governmental, or industrial facilities. The system and method allows for visually analyzing current and historic patterns of energy consumption in a facility (such as electricity, gas, steam, water or other energy) to determine the presence of possible operating errors, equipment problems, or hard-to-detect billing errors. An important step of the method is creating documented patterns representing unusual circumstances which could represent inefficient operation of the facility, for which solutions are known based on analysis of energy consumption by several large facilities over long periods, to allow identification of the nature of similarly inefficient facility operation as shown in the graphs produced by the disclosed method and to allow identification of possible solutions.
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