This is intended to provide a general guide to claiming and securing credit. This is a rough draft. Please send us your edits and changes and additions. Some ESCOs, such as Sycom, are claiming emissions reductions credit from efficiency investments. They are doing so because credits for lower emissions can be worth money under state implementation plans or under national plans.
Trading allows emissions reductions targets to be met at far lower costs than traditional mandates.
And there is going to be increased need for trading in the US and internationally. So addressing the emissions credits issues is both an opportunity to earn more money from efficiency investments, and an opportunity to have the Protocol serve an important international need for an approach that reliably measures savings. The section defines emissions trading, introduces some key terms, and discusses how building managers may be able to use emissions trading to make buildings more energy efficient. The Building Measurement and Verification Protocol provides a methodologically sound, industry consensus approach to measuring and verifying energy efficiency savings. As such, it is ideally suited to provide a common and reliable method for determining emissions reductions associated with efficiency investments.