Evaluation Measurement and Verification

If it’s been awhile since you’ve visited NEEP’s Regional Energy Efficiency Database (REED) webpage, now’s the time!

Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution? You know, you’ve wanted to do something like eat healthier, become the next “Biggest Loser”, or lift increasing amounts of weight in your workout. You do well at the outset; powered by excitement and engagement. After several months, though, you discover that your willpower starts to fade. This is, of course, one of the main challenges of continuous improvement efforts – despite knowing that sticking to our plan can make a big difference over time, we get lost in the daily steps while losing sight of the end goal.

Danielle Wilson, Regional EM&V Forum Associate

Comparing the Evaluation, Measurement & Verification (EM&V) world to alphabet soup can be an apt description.

Cecily McChalicher, REED Manager

The REED Program Year 2011 Annual Report (released this week) extracts the und