Data sources and meters

EnerG runs on two data streams: monthly utility bills and high-frequency interval reads. This page explains how those streams enter the product, how meters organize them, and why EnerG calendarizes bills before it compares periods. For the steps to connect a feed, see the connector how-tos: Arcadia, CSV uploads, Manual entry, and the KODE OS data source.

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EnerG and KODE OS

Use EnerG for utility bills, bill-led reporting, compliance, and sustainability planning. Use KODE OS for submeters, interval data, and operational insight. Many portfolios need both. Bills and interval reads stay separate. Site meters and equipment trends do not replace utility bills for portfolio EUI, cost rollups, or accruals.

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Two data streams

Most EnerG dashboards, rankings, and accruals run on utility billing data: the monthly statements your electric, gas, and water providers issue. Automated connections retrieve those bills on a schedule. EnerG imports interval meters when you need granular charts, forecasting, or Option B M&V. Interval reads are normalized before analytics use them. See Interval data normalization.

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Data sources

A data source is any path that brings utility or meter data into EnerG. You manage sources once per portfolio and reuse them across buildings. See the full comparison on Portfolio data sources.

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Accounts, meters, and statements

Utility data lands in three related layers.

• Meters measure usage at physical or virtual service points.
• Accounts group one or more meters under a single payer.
• Statements (bills) summarize meter-level usage, billing periods, rates, and total costs for an account.

In practice: meters roll up to accounts, and accounts produce statements. Example: a mixed-use building may have five electric meters. Three suite meters bill to individual accounts. Two common-area meters share one owner account. Each account receives its own monthly statement. When you connect a utility account, EnerG can capture all meters in that login. Statements may arrive per meter or combined, depending on the provider.

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Service types and commodity groups

Service types describe what flows through a meter. EnerG groups them into three commodity groups for portfolio reporting. Fuels convert to a common energy unit before EnerG rolls them into portfolio energy totals and EUI. For the full service-type list, see Data and meter fields.

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Meters

A meter is the utility-assigned or platform-tracked measurement point that records resource usage for a service location. Each meter has service start and end dates that control which bills count toward a building. Meters differ by scope and by feed. Utility bill meters settle on monthly billing periods. Interval meters record usage every hour or every 15 minutes for load shapes, forecasting, and M&V. For field definitions such as meter status, level, and data origin, see Data and meter fields. To manage meters, see Building meters and Portfolio meters.

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Calendarization

Calendarization spreads each billing period across calendar months using average daily consumption. It normalizes irregular bill windows so January always means January. A bill that runs January 13 to February 11 splits its usage across both months by daily rate. EnerG then reports a clean January value and a clean February value. You rely on calendarization for year-over-year comparisons, accounting closes, and any dashboard that must align to calendar months.

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How data flows

Portfolio settings and data sources shape what each building can use. Building-level meter work rolls up to portfolio dashboards, rankings, and alerts.

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