measurement & verification

balance M&V cost & accuracy

verify energy savings

Using measurements and trends, we verify your project saves energy and costs as expected.

For utility programs, we ensure incentive dollars are spent only on projects that achieve savings.

Our experience enables us to choose the right level of M&V for your project or program.

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M&V 2.0, AMV

normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC)

With smart meters increasing, more buildings have high-resolution consumption data making diagnostics, and reliable whole building M&V feasible in many cases.

This approach to site-specific, meter based M&V has a few names:

  • advanced measurement and verification (AMV),
  • M&V 2.0, and
  • metered energy consumption (NMEC) in California.
lower cost
shorter monitoring
rapid feedback
increased accuracy
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We are pioneers in using whole-building, interval meter data to track and verify energy project savings, have authored numerous guidelines and implemented these approaches for many utility programs.

nmecr

We developed an open-source r package, called nmecr, which is free to use.

Use it to perform M&V when analyzing site-level, meter based, energy savings.

Our goal is to facilitate adoption of these methods for encouraging deeper energy efficiency retrofit projects.

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questions on M&V?

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related reading

guides & recommendations

 

How to Operate Your Building Safely and Efficiently Through the COVID Era Guide. 
Download our free guide on how to safely operate HVAC systems to maximize occupant safety.  

Whitepaper: The Wells-Riley Equation and Covid-19: Reducing Risk in Indoor Environments.
Read about how this equation can help building operators understand the effect of different strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 through building HVAC systems. 

COVID-19 Building Operation Blog Posts.
Deep dive into relevant posts from our engineers.

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free tools

Outside Air Ventilation Load Estimator. Learn more about the impacts on your building load when adjusting outside air percentages with our free ventilation load estimator. 

Probability of Infection Calculator. Learn more about the estimated effectiveness of different strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in buildings.

 
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