How does data visualization help us achieve our energy goals?

In recent years, data has become increasingly popular and relevant. From a field reserved for niche experts, it has quickly become accessible and useful for all of us in our daily lives. Companies have quickly recognized its great potential, observing that when they model, visualize, and understand it, the insights it provides for generating business and savings are enormous. Once processed and properly visualized, data becomes information that helps drive productive and operational thinking. The rapid development of technological tools in recent years has allowed us to improve data management and multiply the volume of analysis, resulting in more specific and useful information. However, the question now is: how do we manage and leverage so much data? And it is the improvement in data visualization that has allowed the benefits of advances in data analysis to reach different areas of society. In other words, a good data visualization tool is key to focusing on the most important information for the company. Data visualization: the usefulness of visualizing data and figures Data visualization arises precisely from the need to make data more relevant and “digestible” for the target audience. The reinterpretation and visualization of numbers using graphic techniques and elements facilitates access to data, translating its complexity and highlighting useful information. Diagrams, classifications, curves, graphs, represented through dashboards or static visualizations, clarify the power of data and facilitate the understanding of trends, outliers, and patterns within them. This is how, ultimately, data becomes actionable and usable, allowing the end user to understand and have a clearer vision of what is happening in the company or market in order to make decisions. Data analysis and its visualization in the energy sector In this sense, data visualization has also become indispensable in communication between companies and their clients or investors. They base their strategic decisions on numerical results, and consequently, companies aim to impress them with their performance metrics and annual reports. It is hard to think of a professional field where having more understandable data is not beneficial. Public sector, finance, marketing, consumer goods, services, etc., not forgetting, of course, the energy sector, energy efficiency, and consumption optimization. Savings and sustainability hand in hand with data visualization Sustainability and savings are two areas where data visualization can help, especially when communicating how goals can be (or have been) achieved. Since these are complex processes, often dense with numerical indicators, data visualization becomes a key tool to make both more tangible to the end user. EMS platforms and energy consumption maps Monitoring systems and visualizations are very useful for identifying anomalous consumption peaks and acting accordingly, increasing sustainability and facilitating savings. Meanwhile, Edison NEXT Energy Management System platforms collect, aggregate, and analyze data generated by an industrial plant, building, or property in real time. Thanks to digital technologies developed for data ingestion, subsequent processing, and digital visualization tools, we can monitor all energy consumption. The consolidation of information has allowed us to aggregate consumption across a territory, city, or industry through interactive maps where information can be extracted in each area about the most relevant electricity and fuel consumption points. Edison Next’s solution is versatile and scalable, so it can be applied in any field, enabling through monitoring the reduction of energy consumption and emissions, as well as a positive impact on social, environmental, and economic sustainability.