M&V (Measurement & Verification)

A critical (and often overlooked) step to ensure ongoing energy optimisation is measurement and verification of your energy performance and savings. 

Energy savings cannot be measured directly, as savings are the absence of something, a void, and you cannot measure a void...

Measurement and Verification or M&V is a formal process used to construct an energy baseline. An energy baseline is the characterisation of energy consumption given certain energy drivers (like production, climatic conditions, etc).
Once a baseline has been established you can effectively evaluate your performance.  A direct comparison between your energy usage year-on-year is not an apples-to-apples comparison because production volumes, occupancy, climatic conditions etc could differ widely  between one year and the next.

The proposed tax incentive for companies who have implemented energy projects has lead to the publication of SATS 50 010 by the SABS. 

SATS 50 010 was developed by the SABS according to the principles of the IPMVP.  We played a key role (as chairman of the SABS working group tasked with the development of SATS 50 010) to bring M&V into the mainstream of energy management practise.  We are also represented on the Technical Committee of the IPMVP (International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol).

We have well over 100 man-years' experience developing and maintaining M&V baselines and reporting savings according to the IPMVP (International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol).

There is simply no other company in Southern Africa with the Measurement and Verification (M&V) experience, insight and credibility of Energy Cybernetics. We can help you;

• Be ready to claim tax incentives.
• Independently evaluate performance of energy projects for the purposes of shared-savings contracts/agreements.
• Establish a monitoring and evaluation program providing effective feedback on your energy programs - this will be required for ISO 50 001 certification.
• Help you to quantify the environmental impact of energy projects. 
• Establish whether new equipment or processes really deliver the expected savings.

Contact us to discuss your M&V requirements