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Dashboards, widgets, charts, alerts—there are over 200 energy data software companies pitching you entertaining, but ultimately limited products to “visualize” your energy use. To fully leverage your real-time energy data (including water, temperature, and more), it should be analyzed alongside your actual utility bills and costs, not an estimated average cost.
Such a simple approach can lead to inflation of avoided costs or worse yet, missed cost saving opportunities by underestimating the true value and inflating the payback period.