Benchmarking is only meaningful when performance can be compared consistently.

In the energy industry, benchmarking has traditionally relied on averages, surveys, modeled expectations, or coarse portfolio statistics. These approaches provide context, but they do not produce operational truth.

True benchmarking requires a shared, measurement-based standard that holds across buildings, systems, components, and time.

Most benchmarking frameworks compare buildings at a high level using annual energy totals, peer group averages, or modeled baselines.

While useful for reporting, these methods fail to answer critical operational questions:

• Why is one building outperforming another?

• Which systems are driving excess consumption?

• What actions will reliably produce improvement?

• How do results persist over time?

Without a consistent, granular standard, benchmarking becomes descriptive rather than actionable.

Pathian redefines benchmarking by grounding all comparisons in measured performance.

Instead of comparing buildings as black boxes, Pathian benchmarks energy behavior at the component and system level — fans, pumps, air handlers, chillers, zones, and control sequences — normalized for weather and operating conditions.

This approach enables apples-to-apples comparison across:

• Different buildings

• Different system designs

• Different operating schedules

• Different climates

• Different points in time

Benchmarking becomes a tool for diagnosis, not just reporting.

Pathian benchmarking is built on continuously updated, weather-normalized performance curves derived from real operating data.

By anchoring benchmarks to actual measured behavior rather than static assumptions, Pathian preserves operational truth while removing noise from weather, occupancy variation, and short-term anomalies.

This allows performance to be compared:

• Hour by hour

• Day by day

• Season by season

• Before and after interventions

without rebaselining or manual adjustment.

Because Pathian benchmarks at the component level, performance gaps can be directly tied to specific systems and control behaviors.

This enables:

• Rapid identification of underperforming assets

• Prioritization of high-value opportunities

• Verification of corrective actions

• Continuous tracking of performance persistence

Benchmarking is no longer a passive scorecard — it becomes an active decision engine.

Pathian establishes a common benchmarking language across portfolios, organizations, and stakeholders.

Utilities, owners, operators, OEMs, and regulators can all reference the same measurement-based benchmarks, enabling alignment without sacrificing technical rigor.

This shared standard supports:

• Portfolio-wide performance comparison

• Program design and evaluation

• Incentive qualification and verification

• Regulatory reporting and compliance

Pathian treats benchmarking as foundational infrastructure — not a one-time study, not a static report, and not a disconnected analytics layer.

By embedding benchmarking directly into ongoing operations, Pathian enables continuous improvement at scale.

Benchmarking becomes the starting point for every action — and the reference point for every result.