Measuring and Verifying Your Energy Performance Contracts- What are Your Options? How do You Choose?

Authors

  • James P. Waltz P.E., C.E.M. President Energy Resource Associates, Inc.

Abstract

Performance contracting is all the rage for facility managers today.
Where “the rubber meets the road” in performance contracting is
“counting the beans” after the work is done—otherwise known as mea-
surement & verification (M&V). This article provides a down-to-earth
explanation of the measurement & verification options for performance
contracts as identified in the Department of Energy’s International Per-
formance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP)—formerly
known as the North American Energy Measurement and Verification
Protocol (NEMVP). The article also provides recommendations for the
choice of M&V methods.

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Author Biography

James P. Waltz, P.E., C.E.M. President Energy Resource Associates, Inc.

James P. Waltz, President of Energy Resource Associates, Inc., is a pioneer in the field of energy management. Prior to the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973, Mr. Waltz made a personal commitment to energy management as a principal focus of his engineering career. Since that time, he has served as energy management program manager for the Air Force Logistics Command and the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In addition he has worked as an energy management engineer for consulting and contracting firms. In 1981 he founded Energy Resource Associates for the purpose of helping to shape the then-emerging energy services industry—and did so through a multi-year assignment to create a successful energy services business unit for a Fortune 500 temperature controls manufacturer.

Mr. Waltz’s credentials include BSME and MBA degrees, professional engineering registration in three states, founding member and Certified Energy Manager of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), and member of the Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP), Demand Side Management Society (DSMs), the American College of Forensic Examiners and the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (AS H RAE).

A noted speaker and author, Mr. Waltz was named International Energy Engineer of the Year for 1993 by the Association of Energy Engineers, has taught performance contracting and building simulation seminars for AEE, teaches energy auditing at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a member of the DOE’s 1997 International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol (IPMVP) Technical Committee Energy Resource Associates

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Published

2023-08-23

How to Cite

Waltz, J. P. . (2023). Measuring and Verifying Your Energy Performance Contracts- What are Your Options? How do You Choose? . Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment, 21(4), 47–64. Retrieved from https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/SPEE/article/view/20375

Issue

2002: Vol 21 Iss 4 2001-2002

Section

Articles