Verification

Purpose

The purpose of program verification is to ensure that the technologies installed at small commercial sites through the program are installed and operating properly, and have the potential to deliver energy and peak demand savings. Verification should also produce the information necessary to estimate the energy and peak demand savings delivered at each customer site. Evaluation of the aggregate energy and demand savings achieved by the program should be the responsibility of the independent evaluator hired by the utility.

Responsibility

The utility will have responsibility for verification of technology installation and program operation. The utility should verify that the third party hired to deliver the program to consumers has installed operating equipment at small commercial customer sites. Site inspections should be conducted on a random sample of at least 10% of small businesses participating in the program. The utility or its agents will be responsible for these verification inspections.

Procedures or protocols

The hardware and software offered by the delivery contractor for this program should have the capability for periodic reporting of thermostat settings and consumer behavior, for payment settlement purposes. This information should also be made available to the program evaluator hired by the utility in order to estimate aggregate energy savings and peak demand reduction impacts of the pilot program.