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