How we read a utility interval file without drowning in columns
Interval files arrive as long grids of timestamps. The useful work is spotting missing days, daylight-saving jumps, and columns that are kW instead of kWh.
Field notes
Pages from walks and invoice weeks
These notes are written from energy consumption reporting jobs: what the meters showed, what the bills could not explain alone, and what a plant-room visit added.
Corridor lighting that still lives on the common-area total
In older mixed-use blocks, the corridor and dock lights were never given their own meter. Allocation notes have to say that out loud.
What to photograph during a boiler-room visit
A heating-season review is easier to defend when the plant room is recorded as it was on the visit day, not as the drawing set imagined it.
Occupancy hours versus billed kWh on a mixed-use floor
A floor can look busy in the access logs and still show a quiet electricity bill, or the reverse. The report has to hold both facts.