Methods, technology, and systems for quickly enhancing the operating and financial performance of energy systems at large facilities, interpreting usual and unusual patterns in energy consumption, identifying, quantifying, and monetizing hidden operating and financial waste, and accurately measuring the results of implemented energy management solutions, in the shortest amount of time with minimal cost and effort

A system for monitoring and reporting usage of a commodity such as energy comprising:

• at least one storage device configured to store historical incremental commodity usage data;
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• a processor coupled to the storage device, the processor time-correlating the historical incremental usage data based at least in part on periodically-repeating time periods over which the usage occurred to generate an incremental historical comparison of usage from different but related periodically-repeating time periods that at least partly takes into account time-variable factors affecting the usage,
• the processor automatically identifying unusual usage patterns by comparing with synchronized historic usage patterns and automatically providing contextual interactivity for the usage patterns based on a stored knowledge base, temperature- and/or consumption-based action control lists, and information including commodity pricing, and/or facilities analytics.

A system for tracking performance of a facility relating to energy and/or water usage, the system comprising:

• at least one storage device configured to store historical and/or current incremental commodity usage and/or cost data;
• a first computer-implemented module comprising a plurality of components, the components comprising a facility information component, a cost analysis component, and an operations analysis component;
• the facility information component comprising data pertaining to a particular facility, comprising a description of the facility, a function of the facility, operating hours of the facility, and/or information relating to usage of utilities by the facility, stored on the storage device;
• the cost analysis component comprising historical billing data stored on the storage device;
• the operations analysis component comprising data corresponding to a plurality of weekly modules comprising 15 to 30 minute interval usage and weather data for each day of the week;
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• a second computer-implemented module comprising periodic updates to the cost analysis and operations analysis components;
• a processor configured to execute the first and second computer-implemented modules;
• and wherein the data corresponding to the weekly modules from a prior year and from a current year are synchronized by day of week such that data from a Monday of a particular week in the prior year and data from a Monday of a corresponding week in the current year are synchronized in order to accurately track performance of the facility with respect to energy and/or water usage.

A system for processing historical utility usage and cost data collected from a utility, said system including:

• at least one storage medium that stores said utility usage data;
• at least one user input/output device;
• at least one processor operatively connected to the storage medium and the user input/output device, the at least one processor automatically creating a baseline based on at least said stored utility usage and cost data, said at least one processor further updating the stored utility usage and cost data with more current usage and cost data and synchronizing the updated data with previously stored data to generate graphical visualizations that allow discovery of performance discrepancies and/or usage or cost aberrations compared to said baseline;
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• a display device operatively coupled to the at least one processor, the display device displaying said generated graphical visualizations.

A system for tracking performance of a facility relating to energy and/or water usage, the system comprising:

• at least one storage device configured to store historical and/or current incremental commodity usage and/or cost data;
• a first computer-implemented module comprising a plurality of components, the components comprising a facility and/or general information component, a cost analysis component, and an operations analysis component;
• the facility information component comprising at least data pertaining to a particular facility, comprising a description of the facility, a function of the facility, operating hours of the facility, and/or information relating to usage of utilities by the facility, stored on the storage device;
• the cost analysis component comprising historical billing data stored on the storage device;
• the operations analysis component comprising data corresponding to a plurality of modules comprising 15 to 30 minute interval usage and weather data for a given day;
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• a second computer-implemented module comprising periodic updates to the cost analysis and operations analysis components;
• a processor configured to execute the first and second computer-implemented modules;
• and wherein the data corresponding to the modules from a prior year and from a current year are synchronized by day of week in order to accurately track performance of the facility with respect to energy and/or water usage.