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Bonneville Power Administration
In 2009, the Bonneville Power Administration contracted with a team led by Research Into Action to review and, as warranted revise, its existing measurement and verification (M&V) protocols, which were developed between 1999 and 2003. In its review, the team considered: Are the types of assessments that BPA needs covered by the existing protocols? Are the existing protocols consistent with best practices? Do any of the protocols need to provide more information to guide practitioners so that the assessment is consistent with the protocol? The team recommended the consolidation of several protocols into single, more comprehensive protocols, and a rewrite of all the protocols requiring post-installation measurements to be consistent with International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP) standards. The team then launched the rewrite of the protocols, and created two "light" protocols for smaller projects for which post-installation measurement is not cost-effective. The team developed examples to illustrate the protocol from development of a plan through final analysis and resource guides in the areas of sampling of data points and regression modeling. The team trained BPA energy efficiency engineers in using the revised protocols. The project addressed issues such as data and personnel training requirements, cost, cost-effectiveness, and accuracy that users must consider when deciding which M&V practices to use, as well as the opportunities offered by advances in metering to conduct measurements that previously were not cost-effective.