Patent ID: 11861740
Assignee: nan
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. In a utility management system for managing utility customers' use of limited utility resources, a method of targeting specific types of users within a specific industry standard class, which is used to set utility usage thresholds for that industry class, the method comprising:
accessing utility customer usage data for a public utility, wherein the utility customer usage data includes data from a plurality of utility customers across a plurality of industry classes;
choosing one or more industry standard classification codes to compare utility customers' usage to those in similar class structures;
based on the chosen one or more industry standard classification codes, comparing utility usage data from the plurality of utility customers within the chosen one or more industry standard classification codes; and
based on the comparison, defining one or more utility usage thresholds for the chosen one or more industry standard classification codes, which threshold value can be used for targeting specific user types for an audit, conservation or rebate program.