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After the Energy Assessment
6.1 Implementation of Energy Conservation Measures
Sometimes the auditors and site staff go through the list of no-cost measures and
implement them according to the client’s decisions after the fi nal meeting—or
sometimes before the auditors leave the site after the fi eld work.
Implementation of the saving measures depends on the client’s resources,
plans, and priorities. The auditor will help in the design, implementation, and
commissioning (and performance contracting sometimes), but the work in-
volved is a separate assignment with an additional fee and is not included in
the energy assessment.
6.2 Level III Assessment to Verify Results
The Level III assessment may also be used as a part of continuous commission-
ing as a detailed engineering analysis with implementation, performance mea-
surement, and verifi cation (M&V) assessment and fully instrumented diagnos-
tic measurements (long-term measurements) to verify the savings achieved by
the implemented measures. For ESPC projects, the Level III assessment is
prolonged until the end of the contract to guarantee that all systems and their
components operate correctly. However, continuous commissioning might
be introduced after each level of energy assessment. Therefore, some people
prefer to introduce continuous commissioning as Level IV of the energy as-
sessment process. This is described in more detail in the following chapter.
6.3 Evaluation of the Energy Assessment
The client organization who paid for the energy assessment should analyze the
project when the report is ready.
Questions to discuss are
Was the energy assessment project successful? ■
Were the results what we expected? ■
Does the reporting meet our quality standards? ■
Were the schedules realistic and were they met? ■