Patent ID: 8577505

Claim:
An energy-related information presentation system comprising: a processor; and one or more detectors for obtaining data on instances of heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at one or more sites of an enterprise; and wherein: the one or more detectors are connected to the processor; the processor receives the data from the one or more detectors on instances of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at the one or more sites; the processor outputs a normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites based on data on instances of the equipment; an instance of the equipment is an RTU; the normalization comprises alpha and beta factors; the alpha (α) and beta (β) factors are used to build the normalization for instances of the equipment of the one or more sites; α i , j , k = ∑ nDays ⁢ ⁢ ∑ nHours ⁢ ⁢ % ⁢ ⁢ ON 100 * nDays * nHours β i , j = ∑ nUnits ⁢ ⁢ α i , j , k nUnits α i, j, k =sum of run time for site i, stage j, RTU k, in percent, across a specified time of day and date range for a specific RTU divided by 100 percent * n hours * n days; and β i, j, =the sum of all α i, j, k for a site divided by the total number of RTUs at this site.