ASHRAE has recently completed the development of
Guideline 14 to fill a need for a standard set of
energy (and demand) savings calculation procedures.
Guideline 14 is intended to be a guideline that
provides a minimum acceptable level of performance
in the measurement of energy and demand savings
from energy management projects applied to
residential, commercial or industrial buildings. Such
measurements can serve as the basis for commercial
transactions between Energy Service Companies
(ESCOs) and their customers, or other energy
conservation providers that rely on energy savings as
the basis for repayment of the costs of the retrofit.
When applied properly, ASHRAE Guideline 14 is
expected to provide adequate assurance for the
payment of services by allowing for well specified
measurement methods that provide reasonably
accurate savings calculations. ASHRAE Guideline 14
may also be used by governments to calculate
pollution reductions from energy efficiency activities.
Since Guideline 14 is intended to be applied to an
individual building, or a few buildings served by a
utility meter, large scale utility energy conservation
programs, such as those involving statistical
sampling, are not addressed by the current version of
Guideline 14. Furthermore, metering standards and
procedures for calculating savings from
modifications to major industrial process loads are
also not covered.
This paper presents an overview of the measurement
methods contained in ASHRAE Guideline 14 ,
including a discussion about how they were
developed, and their intended relationship with other
national protocols for measuring savings from energy
conservation programs, such as the USDOE's
International Performance Measurement and
Verification Protocols (IPMVP)