Overview
The CoIN (Cost of Inaction) Dashboard is designed to provide decision-makers, energy managers, and finance teams with deep financial insights into operational inefficiencies across sites and SEU (Site Energy Unit) categories. It quantifies inefficiencies, highlights opportunities for savings, and supports business cases for energy-saving investments.
The dashboard includes a headline figures section for global summary metrics and a summary table that provides per-site and per-SEU breakdowns. The dashboard allows you to set a global date range (up to one year) to define the period for data aggregation and comparisons.
Headline Figures
A high-level, global summary of energy performance and investment opportunities is visible in the Headline Figures at the top of the dashboard, broken into the following groups;
Total Energy Cost
Annualised Costs
One Off Costs
Total Energy Cost
Definition: The total global spend on energy across all sites.
Calculation: Sum of site-level total energy costs, which themselves are calculated from gas and electrical energy use and their respective prices
Operational Drift
Definition: The percentage difference between actual energy consumption and modelled (optimal) energy consumption.
Calculation:
("Total Energy"−"Total Model Energy")/"Total Model Energy"
Operational Drift Cost
Definition: Monetary cost of the operational drift.
Calculation:
(“Gas Energy” - “Model Gas Energy ”) * Gas Energy Price+
(“Electrical Energy” - “Model Electrical Energy ”) * Electrical Energy Price
Qualified Capex Opportunities
Definition: Total potential annual financial savings from executing all qualified energy-saving projects.
Calculation: Sum of financial savings tagged as "Qualified" for all opportunities.
Annualised Cost of Inaction
Definition: Cost of not addressing operational drift and not executing qualified opportunities, annualised.
Calculation:
(“Operational Drift Cost”/<number of days in the date range>)*365 + Qualified Capex Opportunities
Capex Required
Definition: Total capital expenditure required to execute all qualified opportunities.
Calculation: Sum of "Investment" fields for all qualified opportunities.
Summary Table & SEU Categories
The summary table displays site-level and SEU-level breakdowns, supporting deeper dives into each site's performance.
Metrics Displayed
Total Energy Cost
Total Operational Drift (%)
Operational Drift Cost
Qualified Capex Opportunities
Capex Required
Annualised Cost of Inaction
Drill-down Functionality
Clicking on the cell in the Operational Drift column opens the Operational Drift Analysis Modal (see below).
Clicking on the cells in the Qualified Capex Opportunities or Capex Required columns brings you to the Opportunity Register, pre-filtered to the site or SEU selected.
Operational Drift Analysis Modal
This modal provides a detailed breakdown of operational drift incidents for a selected site or SEU. The significant drift threshold is defaulted to 5% but can be changed.
It displays the following;
Combo chart showing:
Operational Drift %
Total Energy vs. Model Energy
Gas and Electrical Energy and their prices
Equipment-level energy breakdown (for SEUs).
Operational Drift Instances:
Start and end date of drift incidents.
Excess energy used.
Excess money spent.