Protocol for Monitoring Energy Efficency Improvements in Commercial and Related Buildings.

摘要

This document describes a protocol that addresses the basic measurement and reporting requirements for studies of costs and savings from energy efficiency improvements in commercial and related buildings. Significant advances have been made in methods for organizing and documenting metering studies in commercial and related buildings in this decade, and this protocol builds on these advances. Use of the protocol is intended to promote more consistency in how commercial buildings are described and how results are reported from such studies, which is intended to lead to increased understanding of field performance monitoring results. This protocol has been developed to support efforts of the Existing Buildings Efficiency Research (EBER) program of the Department of Energy. The strategy used for this protocol is to specify data requirements for describing the measured field performance of efficiency improvements in buildings. The requirements cover description of the projects, description of the analysis and reporting of specific analysis results, minimum requirements for measured data, and description of the monitored building(s) by use of a building description data set. We recommend that the EBER program begin using this protocol for studies of energy efficiency improvements in commercial and related buildings. 14 refs.