Seasonal Normative Comparison

The Seasonal Normative Comparison module compares the customer's cooling or heating energy use from the previous season compared to other homes. This comparison motivates them to reduce cooling energy use during the upcoming extreme weather season.

Appears in: Seasonal Report

This section describes the summer Seasonal Normative Comparison experience for a customer whose program includes an Efficiency Zone.

Normative Message Label: Identifies the comparison season. For example, "Last Summer."

Insight: Summarizes the information in the bar chart.

Bar Chart: Displays how much energy each group in the comparison used.

You: Indicates how the customer is doing. This is often a color that corresponds to the utility brand color.

Homes in the Efficiency Zone or Similar Homes: Indicates how all the customer's neighbors are doing. It is usually green. The energy use data that is shown is the mean energy use value. The bar is labeled according to the version of the normative comparison graph used in the customer's Progress Report.

Normative Insight :Appears above the bar chart and provides information about why the bar chart appears the way it does.

Explainer:Text to the left of the bar chart defines the season date range.

Requirements and Limitations

Fuel: Electric-only, gas-only, dual fuel

Data Required: Appliance detection and disaggregation, heating and cooling disaggregation and/or simple disaggregation with Home Energy Analysis completion

Data History: A minimum of one historical bill

Billing Frequency: Monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly