Case study
Two years of invoices into an SGCIE progress report — without the transcription.
ewen energy used foraudits' automatic bill extraction to compile the monthly consumption and cost data behind a biennial Execution & Progress Report (REP) under Portugal's SGCIE.
About ewen energy
ewen energy is a Portuguese energy services company (ESCO) focused on industrial energy efficiency — energy audits, energy management (through its own e+Monitor system) and regulatory compliance under the SGCIE.
It works with large industrial consumers across Portugal, including names such as EDP and the Amorim group.
SGCIE · REP
The challenge: a biennial REP, built from bills
Under the SGCIE, an energy-intensive consumer bound by an ARCE must file an Execution & Progress Report (REP) every two years, through the SGCIE portal, by 30 April of the following year.
Following ADENE's guidelines, the report needs a table of monthly consumption and cost for each energy source — electricity, diesel and so on — annual totals in tep, and the three efficiency indicators (energy intensity, specific consumption and carbon intensity) tracked against the targets set in the PREn / ARCE.
In practice that means gathering and re-typing two years of energy invoices for each installation, month by month — slow, and easy to get wrong, especially with Portugal's multi-period electricity bills (peak/off-peak, reactive power, contracted power).
The solution: extraction instead of transcription
ewen uploaded the invoices to foraudits and the automatic extraction turned each one into structured data — energy source, period, consumption (including by time band), reactive power, contracted power and cost — with multi-period bills already split out.
- Monthly consumption and cost per energy source, ready for the REP's tables
- Multi-period electricity bills disaggregated automatically
- Review side by side with the original PDF, low-confidence fields flagged
- Clean data to feed the IE, CEE and IC indicator calculations
The outcome
Instead of transcribing invoices into spreadsheets, the team spent their time on the analysis the REP actually rewards.
- Around two years of invoices structured in days, not weeks
- No manual transcription carried into the indicators
- Consumption and cost tables ready for the SGCIE portal, ahead of the 30 April deadline
“The slowest part of a REP is gathering and transcribing the invoices. With foraudits' automatic extraction, we spent that time analysing instead of copying numbers.”
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