Method and apparatus for contextualizing energy consumption data

A computing system comprising:

• electronic storage medium for storing energy consumption data for production-related equipment and operational status data for the production-related equipment, where the production-related equipment is configured to manufacture a product, and further where the operation status data indicates whether the production-related equipment is engaged in manufacturing the product or not engaged in manufacturing the product;
• and
• a contextualization engine configured to:
• access stored operation status data and stored energy consumption data;
• correlate the operation status data with the energy consumption data;
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• categorize energy consumed by the production-related equipment as value-added or non-value-added based, at least in part, on the correlating of the operation status data with the energy consumption data, where energy consumed by the production-related equipment is categorized as value-added when the production-related equipment is engaged in manufacturing the product or ii) non-value-added when the production-related equipment is not engaged in manufacturing the product.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

• determining an energy classification for an energy-consuming entity by accessing a hierarchical model of energy-consuming entities to determine a production classification for the entity, where an energy-consuming entity comprises a group of related energy-consuming equipment entities, and further where a production classification of production-related for an energy-consuming entity results in an energy classification of direct energy consumption for the energy-consuming entity;
• identifying child entities of the energy-consuming entity;
• aggregating the energy consumption data for the energy-consuming entity and the child entities;
• and
• classifying the aggregated energy consumption data with the energy classification for the energy-consuming entity.

A computing system comprising:

• electronic storage medium for storing energy consumption data for production-related equipment and operational status data for the production related equipment;
• and
• a contextualization engine comprising:
• means for determining an energy classification for an energy-consuming entity by accessing a hierarchical model of energy-consuming entities to determine a production classification for the entity, where an energy-consuming entity comprises a group of related energy-consuming equipment entities, further where a production classification of production-related for an energy-consuming entity results in an energy classification of direct energy consumption for the energy-consuming entity;
• means for identifying child entities of the energy-consuming entity;
• means for accessing energy consumption data for the energy-consuming entity and the child entities;
• means for aggregating the energy consumption data for the energy-consuming entity and the child entities;
• means for classifying the aggregated energy consumption data as direct energy consumption when the energy-consuming entity has a production classification of production-related and at least one of the child entities has a production classification of non-production-related
• and
• means for classifying the aggregated energy consumption data with the energy classification for the energy-consuming entity.