Normalizing energy consumption values based on floor area
An energy procurement strategy can reduce consumption volatility. It also sets up a load profile that is more attractive to
energy providers and can reduce your energy costs. To create an energy procurement strategy you need to understand current
energy consumption patterns exhibited by your equipment. Normalizing the floor area of a facility evens out the energy consumption
or demand differences caused by large and small spaces. This results in more useful comparisons. This topic documents how
to configure the framework’s Average Profile report to plot and report these patterns for a single piece of equipment.
Prerequisites: You are working in
In this procedure’s example the facility uses Hiers meters to monitor equipment power usage.
Perform the following steps:
- Right-click the equipment and select Edit Tags from the popup menu.The Edit Tags view opens.
- To configure AnalyticService properties, right-click the service in the Nav tree, click
Property Sheet, and edit theArea Tagproperty with the area tag name.If you do not configure theArea Tagproperty in the AnalyticService, the framework defaults to hs:area. - Select the applicable tag dictionary (Haystack for default configuration), select the applicable tag (hs:area for default configuration) and click Add Tag.The Direct Tags tab in the lower half of the window displays the
hs:Areatag. - Enter your facility’s area (square feet or square meters) and click Save.The area in the example is configured for 1152 square units.
- Expand the AnalyticService in the Nav tree and double-click the Reports node.The set of available Analytic Ux Report List View report tiles opens.
- Do one of the following:
- To create a new report, click New Report; supply a
Rep NameandDescription; selectAverage ProfileorLoad Duration ReportforReport Type, click OK; and click the report tile. - To edit an existing report, click its tile.
The Report Editor opens.
- To create a new report, click New Report; supply a
- Drag the desired node, in this case the Equipment folder under the HiersMeters, from the Nav tree to the Node section in the Report Editor pane.
- Configure the
Reporting Period; click to enableFloor AreaunderNormalization, and click Run.The framework produces the report.If neither the direct tag on the equipment node nor one of its children has an area value configured, or if the value is zero (0), the framework performs no normalization even if
Floor Areanormalization is enabled in the Report Editor.