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investigation and comes up with a feasible EEDSM program. The ESCo often claims certain impact
from the implementation of this EEDSM program. According to the evaluation criteria in the previous
section, the ESCo can develop the program and thus claim the relevant engineering, environmental,
social, and economic impacts of the program. Both the customer and ESCo want to know if these
claimed impacts have been achieved after implementation, therefore, as an independent third party,
the M&V team will help further to measure and verify these claimed impacts.
The M&V process for the EEDSM program is similar to usual energy saving M&V process in [6] as
explained below.
1) This program evaluation guideline document is distributed to ESCos or any other program
developer. The M&V team will award a final mark to each EEDSM program at the end of the
evaluation.
2) The ESCo will develop an EEDSM program from all the engineering, environmental, social,
and economic aspects; then the ESCo claims the corresponding impact of the program on
each evaluating factor, where the impact of each evaluating factor is claimed in either a
quantitative way or a qualitative way. Examples for quantitative achievements include the
exact amount of energy saving to be achieved, the number of jobs created each year, the
reduced amount greenhouse gas emission, etc. Examples for qualitative achievements can be
statements on how the program is aligned with national economic strategic positioning, why
the program is compatible with local participation, etc.
3) The ESCo submits the M&V request to the M&V governing body (e.g. ESKOM Energy Audit),
then the governing body will allocate this request to an M&V team.
4) The M&V team prepares the scoping report to describe the overall program after the
necessary communication with the ESCo and customer.
5) The M&V team prepares the M&V plan report which needs the sign off from both the ESCo
and the client. This M&V plan includes not only key parameters to be monitored, metering
plan, but also the evaluating and marking criteria. The agreement among the ESCo, the
customer, and the M&V team must be reached on the evaluating and marking criteria. For
example, the three parties need to determine which factors need to be evaluated and the
corresponding weight that each factor occupies in the total mark; the percentages of
crediting/debiting marks awarded for over/under performing; etc.
6) The M&V team issues the baseline report according to the M&V plan, this baseline report
needs also the agreement from both the ESCo and the client. The baseline report is based on
the data and information collected from the project sites before the implementation of the
EEDSM program. Meters need to be installed to quantify baseline information in engineering
indicators, and surveys and site visit will be performed to confirm other quantitative and
qualitative baselines (or baseline marks) for other evaluation indicators. A baseline
information or baseline mark will be given for the existing situation within the project
boundary.
7) The EEDSM is implemented, and the M&V team issues the post implementation certificate to
confirm the implementation.
8) The M&V team issues the performance assessment report to evaluate if the claimed impact
has been achieved. Usually this performance assessment will be issued at least once and
usually three times. A mark will be awarded to the assessed project in each assessment
report. The success of a program will depend on if the post‐implementation mark is higher
than the baseline mark. Baseline mark adjustment might be needed if necessary. The
principle for baseline mark adjustment is the same as the energy saving baseline adjustment
principle in [6].
9) The M&V team will issue a series of performance tracking reports to continuously monitor
the impact from the implementation of the program after the performance assessment
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