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.
Portfolio Data
Exporting from the data table on the Buildings page produces a spreadsheet of building input data, including the building name, size, location, and other fields related to energy use and emissions. To export data, select one or more rows from the data table. A series of contextual actions will appear, including the ability to export data for the selected rows. Note that each Building Name in Carbon Signal acts as unique identifier, so this information can be easily used a join field when connecting to individual building export files.
Building Details
You can also export detailed information for each building. Click on a row in the data table on the Buildings page, which opens up the building details. In the top right corner of the page, there is a dropdown menu with an option to Export data. This produces an Excel spreadsheet with four tabs: General, Utility Data, End Uses, and Interventions.
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
On the Interventions tab, Carbon Signal provides the low, median, and high estimates for savings for each utility for each intervention. We provide this information in units of energy so that you can use various emissions factors, as needed, to calculate emissions reductions outside of Carbon Signal.