August 2026

August focused on the tools you use to prove results and diagnose problems — measurement and verification, carbon accuracy, and getting to the right piece of equipment quickly.

Verify a Package of Measures in One Project
Option C projects are no longer limited to a single improvement. Attach several energy conservation measures to one project, mark one as the primary measure, and verify the package together — which is how most retrofits actually happen. Measures you’ve recorded before can be attached to a new project rather than re-entered, and a saved project can now be reloaded, updated in place, or cleared for a fresh analysis.

Use Your Own Data to Explain Consumption
Weather isn’t always what drives a building. Any monthly figure you track as a KPI — production volume, occupancy, operating hours — can now serve as the independent variable in an Option C analysis, on its own or blended with temperature. For buildings with heavy plug loads or steady internal gains, this is often the difference between a model that qualifies and one that doesn’t.

More Accurate Carbon Figures
We corrected how natural gas emissions are calculated: the factor is applied per MCF rather than per cubic foot, and the therms conversion was fixed. Separately, peak demand is no longer counted as energy in combined BTU totals, and site-level emissions factors now resolve reliably so your regional mappings apply as intended. Each carbon factor also names the eGRID data year behind it, so you can cite your source.

Rank Sites by Carbon and Demand
Comparisons can now rank and sort your portfolio by carbon and by peak demand, alongside cost and usage. Useful when the question isn’t “where are we spending the most” but “where are we emitting the most” or “which site is driving our demand charges.”

Equipment Graphics Without Leaving Huckleberry
Each piece of equipment now opens its own controls graphic from your building system, displayed over the page rather than buried in a table, and titled with the equipment it belongs to. Graphic links appear as soon as they resolve, and you’ll see a notice while a graphic loads instead of wondering whether the click registered. Reconnecting after a dropped session is more reliable, so a stale login no longer leaves you locked out of your own station.

A Searchable Fault Dictionary
The Rules page is now a reference you can actually use: search your faults by name and see what each severity level means. When an alert arrives, looking up what it signifies no longer means asking someone.

Site Surveys
Each site profile now has a Survey tab for capturing building details — the characteristics that describe how a facility is built and operated. Keeping that information beside the site rather than in a spreadsheet makes it available wherever it’s needed.

Faster Invoice Lists
Bill lists are now grouped and paged much more efficiently, so large portfolios load quickly instead of straining under a full year of invoices. Utility Entry also fetches only the bills it needs, which makes the manual entry screens noticeably quicker to open.

Improvements to Manual Bill Entry
The manual invoice wizard now asks for billing details before itemized charges, so charge periods are filled in from the bill you just entered rather than typed twice. Uploaded invoice files are also stored more durably.

Reports for Building Owners
Report distribution now supports sending performance summaries to building owners, so the people who need the numbers receive them directly.

Clearer Language About M&V Compliance
The Option C glossary and exported reports now state plainly what Huckleberry checks: the baseline CV(RMSE) limit from ASHRAE Guideline 14. That limit is one requirement of the whole-building compliance path, not the whole of it — the path also calls for a continuous twelve-month baseline and several other conditions that are yours to confirm. If you use these reports for incentive claims, the wording now tells you exactly where the automated check stops. See Measuring Savings with Option C.

Polish and Reliability
The performance dashboard shows a loading skeleton instead of an empty page while data arrives. Chart colors, dates, sort controls, filter labels and export buttons were made consistent across the portal. Site card images render sharply, facility lists page correctly, and equipment edit forms load real values rather than table placeholders. Behind the scenes, equipment data collection from large building systems is faster and more targeted.

Questions about anything here, or want a walkthrough? Reach out at info@huckleberryservices.com.