This guide provides instructions for enabling the Fill Meter Gaps feature on your electricity meter streams and for manually filling gaps for past periods. Once enabled, PEAK will automatically fill missing interval data with estimates based on past consumption patterns, giving you more reliable scorecards, charts and year-on-year comparisons.
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How to Enable Fill Meter Gaps
Estimates are disabled by default and must be enabled manually for each stream. Only electricity streams (NMI, Virtual and Physical) are supported.
Navigate to the Meter Settings: Go to Site Manager > Manage Sites > [your site] > Meters and select the Electricity tab.
Select the Stream: Click on the stream in the Meter Hierarchy to open its Details panel on the right.
Edit the Stream: Click Edit at the top right of the Details panel.
Enable Estimates: Toggle the Estimates switch ON.
Save: Click Update to apply your changes.
Once enabled, PEAK will estimate any missing data for the previous day every night, up to the most recent completed day.
How to Calculate Estimates for a Past Period
Once Estimates are enabled on a stream, the Estimate Meter Data button becomes available. Use this tool to fill gap estimates for any historical period — for example, when backfilling a newly onboarded site or refreshing estimates after delayed data has been received.
Navigate to the Stream: Go to Site Manager > Manage Sites > [your site] > Meters > Electricity and select the stream you want to fill gaps for.
Open the Estimate Meter Data Tool: Click Estimate Meter Data at the top right of the Details panel.
Select Date Range: Choose start and end dates for the estimate calculation. The maximum date range is 3 months and there has to be overlap with actual meter data.
Submit: Click Estimate to start the manual data gap fill.
Tip: Any existing estimates in the selected period will be recalculated, and new estimates will be generated for any unfilled gaps. Actual data is never overwritten.
Things to Know
Utility support: Only electricity streams are supported (NMI, Virtual and Physical). Water and gas are not yet supported.
What counts as a gap: 24 hours or more of continuous missing data.
Estimation method: Estimates are based on the average of 'like days' in the 4 weeks preceding the gap (e.g. for a Tuesday gap, the average of the last four Tuesdays at each interval). Only actual data is used in the calculation, estimated data is ignored.
Unfilled gaps: If there is no actual 'like day' data available in the preceding 4 weeks, the gap is left unfilled.
Actual data always wins: When actual interval data is received later (via manual submeter entry or a delayed data file upload), any estimated data for that interval is automatically replaced.