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The EUI & Intensity dashboard ranks the sites in your portfolio by energy use intensity — energy use per square foot — so you can quickly see which buildings are outliers for a chosen commodity and time window. You’ll find it in the Analytics area: open Analytics > EUI & Intensity.

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Filters

All three views share one filter bar at the top of the page: Until you pick a date range, the page shows preset buttons to get you started.

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Views

The dashboard has three tabs that share the same filters.

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Ranking

A horizontal bar chart with one bar per site, sorted from highest to lowest intensity. The longest bars at the top are your outliers. Click any bar to open the site’s intensity breakdown.

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Size vs consumption

A scatter plot of building size (square footage) against annualized usage. This helps you tell apart a site that’s genuinely inefficient from one that simply uses more energy because it’s larger.

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Over time

A trend view of intensity across the selected window, useful for spotting seasonal patterns or the impact of an efficiency project.

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How intensity is calculated

With the default Square footage denominator, intensity is your site’s usage divided by its gross floor area, scaled to a full year (…/sqft/yr). Nectar does not adjust for occupancy. This is intentional: if a site’s occupancy hasn’t been applied yet, it will stand out as an outlier here, which is exactly what you want when auditing your portfolio. How that full-year scaling works depends on the view:
  • Ranking, Size vs consumption, and the breakdown panel use days with bill coverage in the selected window, so a site with incomplete data still gets a rough annualized run-rate instead of looking artificially efficient.
  • Over time uses the length of each calendar period (month, and similarly for other buckets). A gap in coverage shows up as a dip, the same way other trend charts behave.
To set or correct a site’s area, edit the site in Settings > Company > Sites. When you select a numeric custom variable as the denominator, intensity is usage divided by that variable for months where both usage and a positive variable value exist. That path is not annualized — units look like kWh per cwt (or whatever unit you defined), not …/yr. Axis labels reflect the variable name and unit.

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Combined electricity and gas

Selecting Electricity and Gas converts each fuel to kBtu, adds them together, and divides by gross floor area — the site energy basis used for portfolio energy reporting. Results are shown in kBtu/sqft/yr rather than your usual per-commodity units. A site appears when it has electricity or natural gas usage data in the selected window — only sites with neither are left out. A month with zero usage still counts as data.
A site that reports just one fuel is ranked on that fuel alone, so an all-electric site is measured correctly, but a site whose gas bills are missing for the window will show an energy intensity that is lower than reality. Before reading a low combined figure as good efficiency, confirm both fuels reported for that site and window.

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Sites without denominator coverage

A site needs a denominator value to have an intensity figure. Sites that have usage but no square footage (or an area of zero) — or, for a custom denominator, no matching variable coverage in the window — are listed in a separate missing section below the charts, rather than being shown with a misleading value. Add the area in site settings, or enter variable values under Settings > Company > Sites > General (definitions) and each site’s Variables tab, to bring them into the ranking.

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Site intensity breakdown

Clicking a site opens a breakdown panel showing how its intensity figure is built — the total usage for the period, the gross area, the number of days with data, and the resulting annualized intensity. This makes it easy to verify a number or understand why a site landed where it did.

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Frequently asked questions

A site needs a denominator value to appear in the charts. With square footage selected, sites with usage but no area are listed in the missing section — add the area in Settings > Company > Sites. With a custom variable selected, enter values under Settings > Company > Sites > General or on each site’s Variables tab.
Using gross square footage means a site whose occupancy hasn’t been applied yet still shows up as an outlier — which helps you catch sites that need attention. The breakdown panel shows the exact inputs behind each figure.
Choose Electricity and Gas in the Commodity filter to rank sites on total site energy in kBtu. For any other combination, the dashboard shows one commodity at a time — switch the Commodity filter to compare a different utility type.
Create a monthly Number custom variable, enter values per site (or import them), then choose that variable in the Denominator filter on this page.
Ranking and the breakdown panel annualize using days with bill coverage, so incomplete data still produces a rough yearly rate. Over time divides by the calendar length of each period, so a month with missing bills dips. Prefer the trend when you are hunting coverage gaps; prefer the ranking when you want a portfolio-wide run-rate.