Energy efficiency and Demand Side Management Program ... - Eskom
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Ensure that the evaluation report presents useful findings <strong>and</strong> recommendations<br />
Ensure that the findings are disseminated to those who need them.<br />
4.3 Benefits<br />
The two main benefits of conducting evaluations of energy programs are: 1) to reliably document<br />
program effects <strong>and</strong> 2) to improve program designs <strong>and</strong> operations to be more cost‐effective in<br />
obtaining energy resources.<br />
These goals serve to provide an evaluation framework that when implemented in South Africa will:<br />
Provide reliable evaluation results to support energy policy <strong>and</strong> supply decisions,<br />
Allow programs to be equably compared according to their energy impacts,<br />
Help underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> verify program energy <strong>and</strong> peak savings,<br />
Help identify <strong>and</strong> quantify market <strong>and</strong> non‐energy effects,<br />
Provide information needed to estimate program cost‐effectiveness, <strong>and</strong><br />
Provide recommendations for program changes that help improve cost‐effectiveness.<br />
In addition to accomplishing the above high‐level goals, the evaluation results help to accomplish or<br />
support the following more specific objectives:<br />
Increase the level of reliability of impact estimates of program savings for use in resource<br />
planning forums where the uncertainty of these estimates needs to be compared against the<br />
uncertainty of other key components of the resource plan.<br />
Increase the quality of feedback to program administrators from evaluation projects to both<br />
improve program designs <strong>and</strong> increase the net savings from their programs.<br />
Provide to stakeholders not only energy savings <strong>and</strong> carbon emission reduction, but also<br />
socio‐economic impacts from the program such as job creation, poverty alleviation,<br />
economic growth, etc.<br />
Provide guidance to DSM <strong>and</strong> ESCos on the methodological approaches <strong>and</strong> study focus<br />
needed to perform specific types of evaluations.<br />
Provide a framework with flexibility that allows for the use of alternative evaluation<br />
approaches, especially when they can be shown to provide results as reliable as the methods<br />
presented in the guideline.<br />
5 Scope of Work (SOW)<br />
<strong>Program</strong> evaluation requires human technical expertise <strong>and</strong> experience. Specific projects may also<br />
require specific expertise; however, in this scope of work it is proposed that a universal method<br />
could be used to ensure that holistic evaluation projects are undertaken, considering not only the<br />
engineering aspect, but also the economic, social <strong>and</strong> environmental aspects that would increase the<br />
overall sustainability of the proposed project.<br />
<strong>Program</strong> managers, evaluation panel, <strong>and</strong> M&V practitioners need to have some background in the<br />
goals, objectives <strong>and</strong> constraints of a proposed EEDSM program or project. At the program level, it<br />
would be possible to synthesise the projects to such an extent that the holistic approach of each<br />
project could be assessed <strong>and</strong> directed.<br />
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