Your energy data in Claude – four ways to use the Metry connector in your energy management

Metry’s MCP server is now in Claude’s connector directory! Search for ‘Metry’ under Connectors, sign in with your Metry account, and your data is there in the tool.

Beyond talking to your energy data, there is a lot more you can do to make the daily energy tasks easier. This article walks through how to use your energy data in projects, skills, the Excel add-on and scheduled tasks. They are built for reusing a way of working, so that you can take work off yourself or your team that otherwise has to be redone every month. Here are four things worth trying early.

Combine your own documentation with energy data

Metry holds consumption, meter metadata and your property structure, but floor area, year of construction and number of flats sits somewhere else. That context is what makes it possible to really ask questions of your data. And luckily, those figures already exist at your end! Perhaps in your BEMS or in an energy performance certificate. All you need to do is combine them in Claude through a project. 

A project is a workspace of its own with room for files that follow you into every conversation in that project, so you can put the floor area list, the budget, the maintenance log and the action list there. The question “show kWh per square metre and property for last year” can then yield an output, even though that part of the material has never passed through Metry. It is also a good reason to run your energy data in a general AI tool rather than in a closed analysis module; you decide yourself what Claude needs to know to give the best insight into your energy work.

Write the question once, let more people use it

The most common frustration we hear about building workflows in AI tools is about who will find the time to do the job. The head of property sees the value immediately, but the property managers have their hands full, and nobody wants to be the one teaching five people how to prompt.

Two features help here. In the project instructions you write down once how you want the answers: for example that the period should always be stated, that follow-up happens per property, or what you call things internally. Everyone working in the project then starts from the same place, and on Team and Enterprise accounts the project can be shared with colleagues who can either use it or edit it.

Claude skills are the next step: a recurring way of working described in plain language, such as the monthly check before tenant billing, which the tool picks up by itself when the question comes up. That way, the site manager then doesn’t need to write a prompt from scratch, they can just ask the question.

Combine energy data with other departments’ contexts

Much of what gives energy work its context is owned by someone else; leasing has a list of tenants, move-ins and vacancies, maintenance planning has a plan for which unit gets replaced in which year and what has already been done, and finance has the budget per property. Even if your consumption values have broken free of Excel, a lot of that context probably still lives in spreadsheets. …owned and updated by someone other than you.

Claude is available as an add-in for Excel and can use the same connectors as in the chat. That means you can open the leasing team’s sheet and ask for consumption per property for the same period, in a new column next to the vacancies. The unit that has stood empty since the spring but uses as much district heating as it did when it was let then shows up without anyone having to compare two files by hand. The same goes for the maintenance plan: pull in consumption before and after the practical interventions have been carried out, and you get a quick follow-up on those investments.

Let the recurring check start without anyone starting it

This is what we get asked for most: a list of concrete things to look at this week. Metry does not run any scheduled tasks for you through the MCP server and sends no alerts that way, but you can build it yourself.

In Claude you do it in Cowork. You save the task once and set a schedule for it, and from then on it runs in the cloud without anyone starting it and without a computer being switched on.

For example, you could set up a task that runs…

Every week
If you have hourly or daily values, you can ask Claude to check weekly which meters have gone quiet since Thursday, and which values differ sharply from the meter’s own history.

Every month
Let a task run a few days into the month that checks which meters have no value for the month that just ended, and whether anything looks like it has been reported twice.

Every year
Ahead of reporting, you can get a check on the share of meters with data for the full period you are reporting on, and which properties are pulling that figure down.

The tasks can see that values are missing, but not what has gone wrong at the utility provider, so treat the list as a to-do list to bring with you into the Metry portal.

Access is read-only, so a scheduled task can read the data but neither change nor delete anything.

Worth knowing before you get started with Claude and Metry

Some of the features above require a paid Claude account, and sharing a project with colleagues requires a Team or Enterprise account. If something goes wrong, it is more often a missing permission than a fault in the connection itself, and that can be updated! If you hit a wall, ask whoever handles IT, or ask Claude to describe what is needed so you can pass it on to the right person.

Read the answers and analyses Claude gives you as you would read material from a new colleague; the tool fetches the values and does the arithmetic, but you are the one who decides whether a figure is reasonable. Having managed the same portfolio for years, you can see in a second when something looks odd, and that judgement is still the final step.

Get started with energy management in Claude

If you already collect data through Metry, you will find the how-to guide under Integrations in the Metry portal. Connect the MCP server and start with a question you already know the answer to, so you can see straight away whether the answer holds up.

If you are not a customer yet, we start in the other end. Get in touch and we will look at how your data collection works today and what it would take to make it complete. That part decides how you can work with AI in your energy management.