In one Slovak town, the town’s organizations sent in consumption budgets that were rough guesses. The town was preparing to renovate the swimming pool, because everyone considered it the biggest drain on the budget. Made sense, a pool, water heating, technology.
Once the data was digitized, Enmon showed something else: the real drain was the retirement home, with outdated appliances and an unbalanced heating system. The town rethought its investment priorities and set up notifications for capacity overruns, and got the overrun penalties back.
Today, energy is watched by everyone responsible for a budget, from the energy manager to the deputy mayor. Since then, investment goes where it makes sense, not where “everyone knows” it should.