⚙️ Product updates

Savings & Advice

We started working as a multidisciplinary team. Before, our domain specialists (energy savings analysts) would write lengthy handover documents for the people putting their ideas in code (data scientists). Iterating on these ideas would be a slow and frustrating process. Now we collaborate on new ideas, which makes the process quicker, smoother, and more enjoyable. The energy savings analysts even started to do a bit of coding themselves!

Also, we have created clearer objectives for ourselves. Where before the main aim was to expand our savings portfolio (measured by the number of savings available), we now focus on increasing the advised savings per customer and decreasing the time per scan. Together with the ECs, we are getting a better grip on these metrics so that it is easier to define the most impactful projects.

The most significant change in 2022, though, was EC reports 2.0. The consultants no longer need to copy and paste results and graphs to a powerpoint. We no longer need to track the results of an energy scan manually. Everything is in one place, and all results are saved to a database. Of course, no solution is optimal, and we sometimes get frustrated with our current solution. But if we look back at where we came from it is one giant step forward.

In the next year, we want to continue and take it further. Not only by automating more steps in the process of giving advice but also by making this advice more effective. What does a customer expect from our energy scan? How can we make the scan more understandable and actionable for them so that they also follow up on it? Because in the end, advice is a great start, but what we care about is reducing our environmental footprint.

R&D - An update from last year

The first pilot with zero-downtime measurement of compressed air flows is installed and working!

Data!

Over the coming months, we will gather and analyze the data and see:

• How much additional value can be gained by measuring compressed air flows compared to measuring compressor energy use?

• What is needed to make a competitive and valuable proposition to our market?