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Managing demand alerts
Managing demand alerts

Gridium's demand alerts monitor your building's energy usage against a set threshold, and alert you when demand exceeds your target.

Budget forecasts
Budget forecasts

Gridium uses historical data from your buildings to forecast future energy use and costs. However, the past isn't a perfect guide to the future. You can use the Gridium budget forecast as is, without further modification, or you can treat…

Turning off MFA for SDG&E
Turning off MFA for SDG&E

This new feature of SDG&E's website will cause more headaches for commercial customers than it will solve.

Tracking natural gas data (therms)
Tracking natural gas data (therms)

Snapmeter’s ease of use and powerful analytics now extend to natural gas data to help spot richer efficiency opportunities

Examining a utility meter’s bills
Examining a utility meter’s bills

Review detailed variance reports on your meter’s utility bills, and analyze key metrics like total cost, cost per kWh, and total use to see how the bill compares to the same billing period last year.

Lowering peak charges with accurate and precise demand forecasts
Lowering peak charges with accurate and precise demand...

One of the easiest ways to lower peak demand charges–which can total 40% or more of your building’s utility bills–is to pay attention to energy use on the handful of days, each billing period, when it’s likely your building will…

Understanding changes in energy use
Understanding changes in energy use

Explore the weather-normalized changes in energy use, driven by factors that you do and do not totally control, and run accurate measurement and verification reports.

How do I create a group (and edit or delete one)?
How do I create a group (and edit or delete one)?

Supercharge portfolio management with custom groups. Creating a group of meters makes it easy to collect different parts of your portfolio together, and they can be used to view total energy use and other aggregated key performance metrics.

Setting up Snapmeter: overview
Setting up Snapmeter: overview

Snapmeter delivers powerful energy analytics right to your building operations team online, on mobile, and with custom reporting.

Load duration and an hours-at-load bell curve
Load duration and an hours-at-load bell curve

Visualize the peakiness of your meter’s load curve, and know what the distribution looks like for your meter’s hours at load across kW demand buckets.

Animated temperature response curves and balance points
Animated temperature response curves and balance points

What impact is outside air temperature having inside your building? Turn your data into an animated visualization of your building's temperature response behavior.