Energy Efficiency: Questions to Answer in the Contract Planning Stage
Posted February 28, 2017 at 9:45 AM
you have to know the answers of these questions, before you sign an energy efficiency contract:
- Will the project save demand, energy or both?
- Are there cost avoidance measures that are not conservation measures?
- Have performance tests been performed?
- How accurate does the measurement and verification need to be?
- What time length should the performance be measured?
- Will the expenses of longer measurement and verification yield sustained performance?
- Will the performance deteriorate with no measurement and verification?
- Will there be an expense of meter installation?
- Can I meter the entire facility or do I need to know the effect of each ECM (energy conservation measure)?
- Are new meters of benefit; can they serve an additional purpose?
- What about tenant billing or Utility billing verification?
- What effect will rates have on measurement and verification?
- Is the company changing operations, facilities or re-organizing?
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