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Here is what guessing looks like in practice. The bill spikes, and finger-pointing starts. Maybe it was the new tenant on three, or the chiller. Maybe someone left a compressor running over a long weekend. You have a theory, your boss has a different theory, and the vendor who sold you last year's retrofit has a third theory that conveniently proves his equipment is running perfectly. The argument gets settled by whoever talks loudest, or not settled at all.

In a single year, across ninety-one buildings, we found several million wasted kilowatt-hours, hundreds of thousands of therms of natural gas that did not need to be burned, and no small quantity of good old number two heating oil that was not helping anyone do anything. Ninety-one buildings. One year. That is the sample this article draws on, and every ratio you are about to read comes from it.

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