Blue Module Integrates Rhino API to Visualize Real-Time Utility Data
ESG accounting combined with verified and real-time 15-minute utility data, automatically delivered via a single API.
Blue Module, a provider of ESG accounting software that translates sustainability into financial returns, today announced a new integration with Rhino. Through the Rhino API, Blue Module can now visualize utility consumption and on-site production data, including solar PV, in 15-minute intervals and in real time. This provides real estate teams with faster insights, better auditability, and less manual work. The integration brings together Blue Module's ESG accounting workflows with Rhino's automated utility data delivery, providing reliable 15-minute and real-time insights in one place.
Blue Module reports ESG performance based on recognized standards, translates insights into value-enhancing business cases, and enables efficient reporting to financiers, investors, tenants, and other stakeholders, in line with regulations such as the EU Taxonomy and banking requirements (DuPa).
Rhino delivers complete, accurate, and standardized utility data through an automated API, with verification and validation integrated into the data delivery process.
Xander van Baarsen, GM at Rhino, says:
“Blue Module connects sustainability performance with financial outcomes—exactly the direction in which ESG reporting is evolving. By combining Blue Module’s ESG accounting approach with Rhino’s verified utility data automation, real estate teams can now move from data collection to performance improvement and confidently substantiate results.”
What the integration enables
With the fully integrated Rhino API, Blue Module users can work with centralized utility data at high frequency, without relying on manual exports, inconsistent formats, or delayed reporting cycles.
Key Features
- Automated ingestion of utility and PV data into Blue Module, eliminating repetitive manual uploads and formatting.
- Integrated visualization within Blue Module, combining consumption and on-site production in a single overview across assets and portfolios.
- Analysis at 15-minute intervals plus real-time insight, suitable for both operational monitoring and ESG reporting processes.
- ESG accounting output that links utility performance to financial value drivers, supporting investment decisions and business cases.
- Rhino's centralized utility data API, combined with Blue Module, translates data into ESG accounting insights and financial value signals.
- Standardized and consistent data sets across locations, making buildings and reporting periods more comparable.
- Clear audit trails and data governance support, enabling teams to account for figures internally and externally with greater confidence.
Paul Wessels, CEO of Blue Module, says:
“The market doesn't need more spreadsheets, but automated and reliable data flows. A single, unified, centralized utility data API solves the biggest bottleneck in ESG work: collecting consistent, trustworthy portfolio datasets. Rhino solves this by automatically delivering validated consumption and production data, allowing our users to focus on value creation, reporting quality, and decision-making.
Why this matters to real estate teams
This integration reduces the biggest friction in ESG accounting: obtaining reliable utility and PV data in the central system and then converting it into decision-ready insights and financial impact signals.
Benefits
- Faster monthly and quarterly closings for ESG reporting thanks to automated data flows across the entire portfolio
- Improved comparability between assets, as a single consistent data set feeds the same Blue Module analyses and calculations
- Early detection of performance issues through 15-minute trends and real-time insights, allowing teams to intervene before inefficiencies become costly
- Stronger financial substantiation by linking consumption and on-site production to value drivers, budgets, and ROI cases within Blue Module
- More defensible reporting thanks to centralized data governance and clear traceability of source data to reported results
- Less manual data collection and fewer errors due to automated data delivery
- A clearer link between operational performance and financial outcomes, in line with Blue Module's value-driven ESG approach
- Greater confidence in reported figures, as Blue Module calculations are powered by complete and validated utility and PV datasets from Rhino
