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Many small sites

Retail chains, hospitality groups, care groups and franchises. No central view, lighting and refrigeration dominate, and the value is in ranking sites rather than analysing one.

The load pattern

Each site is small enough that nobody looks at it closely, and together they are large enough to matter. Lighting runs the whole time the doors are open, refrigeration or catering runs longer, and the pattern repeats with small variations across every unit in the estate.

Why that matters

When the same measure repeats across forty buildings, the question is not whether it works but where to start. A ranked list turns a scattered estate into a sequence you can fund. Small sites also carry the same billing errors as large ones, and the errors repeat, so a single misapplied charge is rarely a single site.

Measures that matter most

The ones this building type tends to suit. Each is still read against your building before anything is proposed, and a measure that does not suit yours will say so.

What usually gets missed

Sites still on out of hours settings that were changed once and never changed back. Meters left on deemed or out of contract rates after a unit changed hands. And the sites nobody mentions in a meeting, which are usually the worst ones.

One thing to do

Bring the estate in as one list rather than one building at a time, and read the ranking before choosing anything.

Read your own buildings

Add a building and its energy data, and every measure is read against it. It costs nothing and nobody contacts you unless you ask.