Strategy has first-class support for the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), meaning the targets are built in, recompute automatically against your real data, and don't need to be maintained as spreadsheets. You can also set custom energy and carbon reduction goals alongside the regulatory ones, which covers most local or sector-specific obligations our customers face. If your organization is subject to a regulation we don't yet support natively, let us know. We prioritize adding regulations based on customer demand.

Ento Strategy works without them. The optimizer draws from three sources of candidate projects: platform-simulated initiatives that Ento models from your meter data and building metadata (PV, heat pump conversions, envelope improvements), any energy audits or EPCs you do have, and custom projects you add yourself. If you have audits in PDF format, Ento can process them and extract the proposed measures, even when they don't come from a national EPC registry. If you have no audits at all, the platform-simulated projects and your meter data are still enough to build an optimized plan.

The optimizer takes your candidate pool (platform-simulated projects, EPC-proposed measures where available, and custom projects you've added), combines it with your goals (EED, EPBD, custom energy or carbon targets), and solves for the subset of projects that best meets those goals under the criterion you choose: either minimize investment or fastest payback. You can constrain by budget, scope it to specific sites or buildings, and override any cost or savings assumption per project.

Yes. You can save multiple named scenarios side by side and compare their total investment, energy savings, carbon impact, project count and payback profile. Change the budget, swap which goals you're solving for, or adjust energy price assumptions, and see how the optimal plan shifts. This is especially useful for building a business case: a "minimum compliance" scenario next to an "ambitious decarbonization" scenario, with real numbers on both, makes the tradeoffs visible rather than theoretical.

Once a planned project is marked as implemented, it hands over to Ento's Measurement & Verification module, which uses the same meter data to verify the savings against a counterfactual of what the building would have consumed without the project. Verified savings flow back into your goal progress automatically, so your "are we on track" numbers reflect reality, not just estimates. You can read more on the M&V page.

As soon as you mark a project as complete, the calculations for verifying your savings start running in the background.

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The process is different for each type of initiative, however, in general we use real consumption data from your buildings, physical simulations, and machine learning models to simulate the impact of different actions within the buildings.

Yes. Goal progress, verified savings and EPC inventory are continuously updated and exportable, which gives you a structured evidence trail for audits, regulatory filings, ESG reports and internal stakeholder communication. Because the underlying numbers are driven by meter data and IPMVP-aligned verification, the same data that proves savings internally can back up what you report externally, including for frameworks like ISO 50001.

Goals are configurable, not hardcoded. You can adjust the annual reduction percentage, shift the baseline year, change the target year, or swap which sites a goal applies to, and the progress calculations recompute live. When new regulations come into force that affect our customers, we add first-class support for them to the platform. Custom goals are always available as an escape hatch in the meantime.

Ento models the most common project types for you. PV is sized using satellite weather data and your actual electricity consumption. Heat pump conversions use piecewise COP-vs-temperature curves fit to real performance data. Envelope and other HVAC improvements are based on EPCs and energy audits where available, with standard assumptions where not. For anything Ento doesn't simulate natively, you can add a custom project with your own cost and savings estimates, and it gets optimized alongside everything else.

Ento Strategy runs on the same meter data backbone as Ento Advisor and Ento's M&V module, which means the three close a loop. Advisor detects waste and operational issues that Strategy can turn into candidate projects. Strategy plans the investments that hit your targets. M&V verifies the savings once projects are implemented, and those verified results feed back into your goal progress and sharpen future planning assumptions. You don't have to use all three, but each one gets more valuable when it's connected to the others.