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Many of us are happily using advanced measurement and verification (M&V) methods, a.k.a. normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC), to quantify savings in our energy efficiency projects, now that various meter-based incentive program offerings are underway. My previous posts outlined why this is a ‘happy’ place for many commercial, institutional, and educational buildings: Energy savings are […]
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We are very excited to announce that kW Engineering released open source R code today for analyzing site-level, meter-based energy savings. Our will make it much easier for energy efficiency program implementers to analyze energy efficiency project impacts using the normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC) approach. Background For a long time, like twenty years or
In California, energy efficiency programs will soon be contracted out to third parties in hopes of increasing the impact of energy efficiency programs and lowering resource costs. In our previous post we discussed why energy savings based on normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC) has the potential to streamline estimations of savings and reduce overall energy
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Co-authored by Jim Kelsey and David Jump. We’ve shown leadership but now it feels like we’re stumbling. We’ve been pretty optimistic about normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC) as a streamlined platform for achieving and demonstrating savings in buildings (see our prior post for more on why). And, like many in the industry we were shocked
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What’s cool about NMEC and M&V 2.0 There’s a lot of buzz in our state right now around the concept of M&V 2.0 and Normalized Metered Energy Consumption (NMEC). The term was created as part of AB 802 in 2015 with the inclusion of the following proposed simplified means of counting energy efficiency savings: “(the
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