Verification

Purpose

The purpose of program verification is to ensure that the self-generation units installed at customer sites are installed and operating properly, and have the potential to deliver electric generation. Safety of electrical connections and interconnection (if applicable) should be an important priority of the verification process.

Responsibility

As with the current SPC programs, the responsibility for measurement and verification of energy savings rests with the applicant to the program. The administrator or its independent contractors should be responsible for inspection of installations, but not verification of energy production from self-generation systems.

Procedures or protocols

The existing SPC programs have protocols and procedures designed to measure energy savings from energy efficiency measures. These protocols should be modified and updated to include measurement and verification of energy production from self-generation and cogeneration units, as well as any associated gas or electric efficiency gains. Although the administrator has discretion to utilize other non-SPC program delivery, any program design must include a protocol for estimating the energy production of the self-generation units through a consistent and accepted methodology (using monitoring, statistical sampling techniques, etc.). The adminstrators are responsible for designing, or hiring a contractor to design, the exact protocols required by the self-generation programs.