Why kWh won’t help you
Most companies are used to receiving their half-hourly data about sites in kWh. And you need to understand down to the HH level, as many technologies impact at this level.
Below is a simple illustration of this conundrum. The drawing is not an accurate portrayal of the curves, but is used to highlight the key challenges presented.
![](https://utilidex.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Graphs1.png)
In this example, the solar (red line) peaks during the day, the purple line is how much power could be saved if you shut down, and the blue the power from a battery if you choose to use power at this time.
But where to start?
- Which technologies are right?
- Should you use batteries and solar? And if so, when do you charge up, when do you use?
- What’s the expected cost reduction this month? Next month? Next three years?
- And if this is one of my sites, and I have 100s, what does it look like for the rest of them?
Looking at £s makes it much easier
Now let’s look at this world differently. Let’s take the same chart and overlay the £/MWh
![](https://utilidex.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Graph4.png)
If you have this data for all your sites, both historically and forward looking (for next 3 years), business cases become a lot easier to create and validate.
Utilidex | Hub – making business cases easier
Utilidex provides half-hourly costs, making it even easier to assess business cases, and validate technologies. We knew to answer the difficult questions above, you needed to see your data in £s by half-hour, so have created the industries only platform which combines both your energy commodity costs, plus all third party charges and then distils this to a half-hour cost curve for you site by site.
If you would like further information on half hourly costs, please contact Richard Lewin.