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Building Energy Codes

Customer Information &

Behavior

Driving Ratepayer-Funded

Efficiency through Regulatory

Policies

Evaluation, Measurement, &

Verification

Existing Commercial Buildings

Financing Solutions

Industrial Energy Efficiency &

Combined Heat & Power

Residential Retrofits

Key Resources »

SEE Action Fact Sheet

Evaluation, Measurement, and

Verification Fact Sheet

EM&V Resource Portal

Explore this comprehensive onestop shop for recommended

EM&V tools and approaches

Guidance Documents

Energy Efficiency Program

Impact Evaluation Guide

Evaluation, Measurement, and

Verification (EM&V) of

Residential Behavior-Based

Energy Efficiency Programs:

Issues and Recommendations

Interactive Webinars

U.S Environmental Protection

Agency EM&V Webinar Series

Supporting/Background

Documents

Evaluation, Measurement and

Verification (EM&V) Blueprint

Evaluation, Measurement and

Verification (EM&V) Executive

Summary

National Energy Efficiency

Evaluation, Measurement and

Verification (EM&V) Standard:

Scoping Study of Issues and

Implementation Requirements

Review of Evaluation,

Measurement and Verification

Approaches Used to Estimate

the Load Impacts and

Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency

Programs

Scoping Study to Evaluate

Feasibility of National Databases

for EM&V Documents and

Measure Savings

Scoping Study to Evaluate

Feasibility of National Databases

for EM&V Documents and

Measure Savings: Appendices

Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification Working

Group

Co-Chairs:

Tom Eckman, Northwest Power and Conservation Council

Mark Sylvia, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources

View Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification Working Group members.

The Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) Working Group

leads the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network's (SEE Action)

efforts to improve energy efficiency management by increasing the

accuracy, credibility, and timeliness of EM&V results. The EM&V Working

Group is addressing several key challenges in measuring and reporting

energy efficiency results, including:

Credibility: Increase the accuracy and transparency of reported

energy efficiency savings by improving savings measurement and

verification and standardizing an approach to reporting

Timing: Accelerate the availability of preliminary results to within

three months of implementation

Cost: Proactively balance the cost of EM&V with the value of

information to specific audiences/stakeholders, while working to

reduce the overall costs of EM&V (and intrusiveness of certain

methods) in the long term.

The priorities of the EM&V Working Group are outlined in a blueprint ,

which describes key information and technical needs of states,

municipalities, and their partners; and identifies the specific steps that SEE

Action can take to address those needs.

Working Group Scope

The EM&V Working Group addresses the evaluation needs of residential,

commercial, and industrial programs administered by:

Utilities

Third-party program administrators

Local and state government entities

Private and public entities (for their own facilities).

The EM&V Working Group covers:

Resource acquisition rather than market transformation

Developing resources, disseminating best practices, and leveraging

existing resources and infrastructure

Uniformity of EM&V definitions and comparability of reported EM&V

results (e.g., energy and demand savings).

Priority Solutions and Actions

To achieve its goals, the EM&V Working Group focuses on three priority

areas:

Developing a foundation for improving credibility and crossjurisdiction comparability

Exploring new methods to address emerging issues and

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Building capacity and increasing adoption of best practices.

Learn more about EM&V's priority solutions and actions .

Contacts

For more information on the EM&V Working Group, contact:

Michael Li,, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency

and Renewable Energy

Niko Dietsch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The State & Local Energy Efficiency Action Netw ork is a state and local effort facilitated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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