If you want to create a record of Carbon Signal’s analysis or use the results in other context - like a spreadsheet analysis - you can export spreadsheet data from Carbon Signal.
Running an Export
There is one export in Carbon Signal and it always produces the same workbook. Selecting rows only controls which buildings are included.
To export several buildings, select one or more rows in the data table on the Buildings page. A set of contextual actions appears, including the option to export the selected rows. To export a single building, open it and use the Export data option in the dropdown menu in the top right corner of the building details page.
Exports are prepared in the background rather than downloading straight away. Carbon Signal emails you and shows an in-app notification when the file is ready, and you download it from the Documents page.
Note that each Building Name in Carbon Signal acts as a unique identifier, so it can be used as a join field when combining an export with other data.
Workbook Format
The export is an Excel workbook with eleven sheets: General, Utility data, End uses, Interventions Details, three Interventions Savings sheets, three Timeline sheets, and Performance Standards.
General
The General tab in the spreadsheet includes high level information about the building such as its size, location, and energy use intensity. Most of this information is included in the output of the Portfolio Data export.
Utility data
The Utility data tab includes monthly energy use data for each utility: Electricity, Natural gas, District heating, and District cooling. For each utility, and for each month, Carbon Signal reports the measured data (the data that you provided), the median value in the model ensemble, and the high and low values in the model ensemble.
End Uses
On the End Uses tab, Carbon Signal reports the high and low percentage estimates for each end use relative to the total energy consumptions of the building and in terms of specific utilities. Knowing the breakdown of end uses by utility is useful for calculating the carbon emissions associated with each end use. For example, to calculate the carbon emissions from heating, multiply the portion of each utility attributable to heating by the respective utility emissions factor.
Interventions Savings
There are three Interventions Savings sheets, one for energy (kBtu), one for carbon (lbs CO2e), and one for cost (USD). Each provides the low, median, and high estimates of savings for every utility for every intervention. Having the energy figures on their own sheet means you can apply your own emissions factors to calculate emissions reductions outside of Carbon Signal.
Interventions Details
The Interventions Details sheet carries the definition and the financial inputs behind each intervention, so you can see the assumptions the savings figures were built on.
Timeline
The three Timeline sheets give the year-by-year reduction pathway for each building, in energy, carbon, and cost.
Performance Standards
This sheet lists the performance standards that apply to each building, with the compliance status and penalty exposure for each.