University of Idaho · Integrated Design Lab
Meter Data Analysis
Drop in an Idaho Power hourly export and read your building's electrical load — a full year of demand on one screen, the typical day, the peaks you pay for, and energy by month.
Opens in a new tab · runs entirely in your browser · no data leaves your machine
Preview of the load heatmap — each cell is one hour. The dark midday band is occupied hours; the pale columns are weekends.
Idaho Power delivers interval data as a grid: one row per day, one column per hour. That's hard to read and slow to chart. This tool reshapes it into a continuous hourly profile and draws the charts that actually describe a building — so you can spot occupancy patterns, seasonal shifts, and expensive demand peaks at the schematic stage, before detailed simulation.
What you get
Annual load heatmap
Every hour of the year in one view. Occupancy, weekends, seasons, and outages read at a glance.
Daily load profile
The building's typical day, with weekday-vs-weekend and by-season overlays and a full hourly range band.
Load duration curve
Hours sorted highest to lowest — see how peaky the load is and the base load that never goes away.
Energy & export
Monthly and daily energy charts, key metrics, and clean hourly / daily / monthly CSV to download.
How to use it
Get your data
Ask your Idaho Power representative for the hourly interval export — the day-by-hour grid.
Load it
Drop the file onto the tool or paste the table. The start date is detected automatically; correct it if needed.
Read the building
Charts render instantly. Hover for exact values, scrub through the year, and export the reshaped series.
Original meter-analysis spreadsheet by Damon Woods · modernized for the web by the IDL
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