Preparation and Preliminary Analysis of Data on Energy Consumption by Municipal Buildings

Systematization of data on energy consumption by buildings of different purposes makes it possible to investigate processes from the standpoint of efficient use of energy resources in order to ensure comfortable conditions. This necessitates improvement of existing approaches, or search for the new ones, in order to analyze data on energy consumption by different buildings.Based on a study into the process of preparing data on energy consumption by buildings, we have proposed a procedure of initial analysis. It takes into account the purpose of a building, as well as techniques for data acquisition, information on the indicators of absolute and relative electricity­ and heat consumption, indicators of indoor and outdoor air temperatures. Using energy consumption by buildings of the educational institution as an example, we have verified the devised procedure for the preliminary data analysis.Our study has made it possible to establish the correlation of energy consumption indicators and the indoor and outdoor air temperatures in the transition from general data to the data on a heating period. An analysis of spread diagrams has revealed the trends towards lower energy consumption, as well as the excessive consumption of energy resources by the examined objects.Based on the developed software, we compared indicators of heat consumption by individual apartments and a maximum heating need in accordance with normative documents.The results obtained could form a basis for developing applied information solutions for municipal energy managemen