# Energy Monitoring + Downtime Detection

Under ADMIN in your Busroot Menu please follow these steps to setup your account to monitor energy monitoring in your account: 

ACCOUNT 

1. Set a price per kWh
2. Set a CO2 amount if available 

STATION

1. If you would like to view energy usage to monitor utilisation and downtime set the productive status mode as Electrical usage. 
2. Set your station stopped threshold (kW)
3. Set Downtime Detection Mode to utilisation monitoring. 
4. Under Visibility select only energy and this will be reflected in the Asset Utilisation and Pulse Chart pages in your account. <br>

SCHEDULING

1. In order to monitor downtime a schedule needs to be running for each station. Following the steps in the Scheduling section, add a ‘Continuous’ type schedule. To understand the best way to schedule your operations please go Scheduling.<br>

For more information click on a link below:&#x20;

[Energy Monitoring](https://docs.output.industries/features/energy-monitoring)

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