How much power your building is using right now
Real-time kW, monthly peak, and grid context.
Your building's carbon footprint
How clean the grid is right now, and the CO₂ behind this month's electricity.
Projected electric costs and cost breakdown
What this month is on track to cost, and how it splits between usage and demand.
How this is projected
We project the whole month from your usage so far: projected kWh × your energy rate, plus a demand charge on this month's highest 15-minute reading × your demand rate.
Month-to-month comparisons are length-of-month normalized, so a short month like February doesn't look cheaper just for having fewer days.
How the projected cost splits between usage cost and the highest 15-minute demand charge.
Saving Opportunities
Rules-engine findings, unusual-activity alerts, and notes from your FMC team — highest dollar impact first.
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How much energy your building is using this month
Cumulative kWh this billing cycle, measured against your monthly goal.
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Choose the sample interval used across the dashboard, set the rates the Cost Analysis card uses to project costs, pick which kind of meter you have, and decide whether year-over-year comparisons should be weather-normalized. Choices are remembered on this device.
Sample interval
The interval applies to the live demand trace, the heatmap, and the day profiles. Lower intervals show more detail; higher intervals smooth out short-term spikes.
Electricity rates
Used to project the Cost Analysis card's monthly bill. Look these up on the most recent utility statement; the per-kWh rate is the energy charge and the per-kW rate is the demand charge. Defaults are conservative placeholders.
Bill cycle offset
Shift the Cost Analysis month boundary by a number of days to track your actual utility billing cycle. For a meter that bills the 5th to the 4th, set the offset to 5 — "May 2026" then covers May 5 to Jun 4. Leave at 0 for calendar-month behavior.
Demand goal
Set a kW ceiling you'd like to stay under this billing cycle. BuildingPulse will draw it as a reference line on Live Demand and track your highest reading against it. Leave at 0 (or blank) to hide the goal entirely.
Monthly energy goal
Set a target for total kWh used in a billing month. The Usage tab draws it as a goal line on the cumulative-usage chart and tracks how you're pacing against it. Leave at 0 (or blank) to hide it.
Meter type
Pick the kind of meter feeding this BuildingPulse install. Smart Meter pulls a kW reading directly; Pulse Input counts KYZ pulses from an existing utility meter and converts to kW/kWh on the controller.
Weather-normalize year-over-year comparisons
When viewing the Last Year tab in the cost analysis card, scale the comparison by heating- and cooling-degree-days so this year's hot/cold weather doesn't unfairly pad the percent change. Only enable this if HVAC equipment is metered by this Pulse install — without HVAC in the data, weather normalization will distort the comparison rather than help it.