Staff Publications on M&V of Energy Savings

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Facility Energy Solutions, Stillwater Energy, and SBW Consulting developed 5 M&V Summary Guides in 2024. Each Summary Guide provides an overview of a BPA Protocol or Guide in a 3 to 5 page newsletter style format with consistent sections (e.g., When To Use, When Not To Use, Procedure, Reporting Requirements, Tips, Tools & Resources, Examples).

Summary Guides include BPA's three primary M&V Protocols and two underutilized M&V Reference Guides:

• Summary Guide: Equipment or End-Use Metering Protocol
• Summary Guide: Meter-Based Energy Modeling Protocol
• Summary Guide: Engineering Calculations with Verification Protocol
• Summary Guide: Estimating Peak Demand Impacts
• Summary Guide: Sampling for M&V: Reference Guide

Facility Energy Solutions, Stillwater Energy, and SBW Consulting updated BPA's extensive  library of M&V Resources to versions 3.0 and 3.1 in 2024. Revisions ranged from extensive to minor,  and included new project examples. 

All of BPA's M&V Protocols, Application Guides, and References were revised:

M&V Protocol Selection Guide, Verification by Equipment or End-Use Metering Protocol, Verification by Meter-Based Energy Modeling Protocol, Engineering Calculations with Verification Protocol, Existing Building Commissioning Application Guide, Estimating Peak Savings Application Guide, Sampling for M&V, Regression for M&V, Glossary for M&V, Commercial & Industrial SEM M&V Reference Guide

Facility Energy Solutions, Stillwater Energy, and Energy 350 developed the Commercial & Industrial SEM M&V Guide  v3.0 from BPA's Monitoring Tracking & Reporting Guide (MT&R) in 2019. The new Guide is inclusive of commercial and industrial projects, and provides statistical acceptance thresholds for meter-based models. 

Facility Energy Solutions and  EVO’s Focus Group on COVID-19

Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO) published this white paper on risks, considerations, and options to handling COVID-19 in M&V efforts: Impacts of COVID-19 on Measurement and Verification (M&V) of Energy Savings:  White Paper.

Facility Energy Solutions and EVO’s Focus Group on COVID-19

Article on handling COVID-19 in utility-funded programs and their evaluation efforts, in ESPCs, and in other M&V efforts: Impacts of COVID-19 on Measurement and Verification (M&V) of Energy Savings: Projects and Program.

Facility Energy Solutions and  EVO’s Focus Group on COVID-19 

Article on understanding  the impacts caused by COVID-19 on energy.  In the context of measurement and verification (M&V) efforts, COVID has caused widespread non-routine events: Impacts of COVID-19 on Measurement and Verification (M&V) of Energy Savings: Market Perspectives

 IPMVP's Application Guide on Non-Routine Events and Adjustments (IPMVP's NRE/A Guide) released October 2020 is written by Facility Energy Solutions' staff,  this publication bridges a critical gap in the application of Advanced M&V methods.

Download the NRE/A Application Guide from EVO's Library, or from the downloads available below.

 IPMVP's Snapshot on Advanced M&V released January 2020, written by Facility Energy Solutions with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, provides a snapshot of Advanced Measurement & Verification (AM&V) current state of analysis tools, research topics, legislative mandates and other industry activities. 

Published by the California Commissioning Collaborative, Guidelines for Verifying Savings from Commissioning Existing Buildings details engineering calculation methods and interval meter data analyses approaches to determining energy savings from existing building commissioning projects. 

International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol is translated into nine languages, and used in at least as many countries. The IPMVP provides the basic approaches and terminology used to determine energy and other savings worldwide. The IPMVP measurement & verification (M&V) guideline is comprised of:

Core Concepts, Generally Accepted Principles, and supporting Application Guides.

Lia Webster of FES is working as 'editor in chief' on the revision of IPMVP due Fall  2021 for the IPMVP's   25th anniversary!

M&V Guidelines: Measurement and Verification for Performance-Based Contracts Version 4.0.  Published by DOE in 2015, is abridged from version 3.0 was authored by FES staff. Federal energy savings projects follow IPMVP methods but utilize risk allocation strategies to determine details in performance contracts. Measurement & verification is key to successful energy management.