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Staff Publications on M&V of Energy Savings

Lia Webster, PE, CCP
Principal, Facility Energy Solutions LLC

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

White paper on risks, considerations, and options to handling COVID-19 in M&V efforts.

Managing COVID in M&V - White Paper

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 handling COVID-19 in utility-funded programs and their evaluation efforts, in ESPCs, and in other M&V efforts.

Managing COVID in Programs

Impacts of COVID-19 on Measurement and Verification (M&V) of Energy Savings: Market Perspectives

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!  

COVID'S MARKET IMPACTS

IPMVP Application Guide on Non-Routine Events & Adjustments

 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.

Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO)

IPMVP's Snapshot on Advanced Measurement & Verification (M&V)

 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. 

IPMVP Snapshot on AM&V

M&V for Existing Building Commissioning (Cx) Projects

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. 

M&V for EBCx

IPMVP M&V Guideline: Core Concepts

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!

IPMVP DOCUMENTS

M&V for Federal ESPCs v4.0

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.

M&V for Federal ESPCs

IPMVP Application Guide on Non-Routine Events & Adjustments

October 2020

IPMVP NRE_A Guide Final 10.26.2020_Final_pp (pdf)Download

• M&V REsources for ESPC

  Links to key M&V resources on energy savings performance contracts 

MV_Resources_espc (pdf)

Download

• Guidelines for Verifying Savings from Commissioning Exi

Published by the California Commissioning Collaborative, 2012

vos-guidelines (pdf)

Download

Verification of Savings from EBCx (pdf)

Download

ASSESSMENT of FREE Advanced M&V Tools

This 4-page document includes details of free software to calculate savings from interval energy data. Tools detailed ECAM, RMV2.0, OpenEE Meter (CalTRACK methods), UT3 M&V Module, and the newly released NMECR. This document includes the unabridged version of the tools assessment in IPMVP's Snapshot on Advanced M&V, January 2020. 

Assessment of Free AMV Tools_4 pager (pdf)

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NRE Cost Caclualtor

 Should a Non-Routine Adjustment (NRA) be made? 

Well, it depends. 

Use this calculator to determine the cost impacts of an NRA over the life of an energy saving  project. 


Files coming soon.

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