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- Publication 18 June 2021 IPMVP APPLICATION GUIDE ON NON-ROUTINE EVENTS & ADJUSTMENTS This document is an Application Guide that supports the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP)1. While the IPMVP Core Concepts provides an overview of non-routine adjustments (NRAs) relative to measurement and verification (M&V) projects, this Application Guide is intended to serve as an expansion on the topic. In the context of M&V of energy, demand, or water savings, NRAs are used to compensate for unrelated facility-changes that impact savings and are…
- Publication 18 June 2021 M&V Guidelines: Measurement and Verification for Performance-Based Contracts Version 4.0 This document contains procedures and guidelines for quantifying the savings resulting from energy efficient equipment, water conservation, improved operation and maintenance, renewable energy, and cogeneration projects installed under performance-based contracts. For the purposes of this document, a performance-based contract means a contract in which a third party contractor (which may be an independent Energy Services Company [ESCO] or a utility provider) installs energy and water…
- Publication 18 June 2021 REthinking Energy 2017 Renewable energy is a fundamental and growing part of the world's ongoing energy transformation. Governments all over the world are joining that consensus. The use of renewables is their prime choice for enhancing access to abordable, reliable and cleaner sources of modern energy services. More than 170 countries have established renewable energy targets, and nearly 150 have enacted policies to catalyse investments in renewable energy technologies. Many are looking to partner with an…
- Publication 18 June 2021 Good Debt vs Bad Debt across the public infrastructure space Debt for all sectors is an essential, accepted form of good business, particularly forbig-ticket items such as infrastructure. Good debt assists in the generation of income and (generally)increases the net worth of the responsible entity. This discussion paper outlines the burgeoning crisis facing us all in the public sector infrastructure space; as it relates to an ever-mounting deficit in backlog maintenance of assets, hard targets of energy and greenhouse gas reductions, balanced against…
- Publication 18 June 2021 Risk management for energy efficiency projects in developing countries The present paper addresses risk management fundamentals for energy efficiency (EE) projects in developing countries. The starting point of this paper is that there are many profitable EE projects in nearly every industrial enterprise that are simply not being implemented. Four problems are often identified as the cause for the failure to implement such projects: 1) Lack of a rational and feasible approach to finance these projects; 2) lack of a rational internal management approach in the…
- Publication 18 June 2021 Turkish Building sector executive summary and roadmap Turkey has a high rate of urbanization that has reached 2% per year. This leads to a fast-growing building stock with new construction rates of more than 4%. The construction sector is one of the most important drivers of the Turkish economy, contributing 6.6% of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth. The building sector in Turkey that includes residential, commercial and public buildings is responsible for more than 35% of the country’s total final energy consumption. Due to the significant…
- Publication 18 June 2021 Analyse du cadre réglementaire de l’accès au réseau des producteurs d’électricité à partir d’énergies renouvelables en Tunisie L’objectif de cette étude réalisée pour le compte de la Deutsche Gesellschaft fûr internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH est de fournir une analyse sur la préfaisabilité juridique du développement d’outils juridiques à destination d’opérateurs privés étrangers dans le secteur des énergies renouvelables et plus particulièrement dans celui du secteur de l’énergie solaire en Tunisie. Il s’agit d’étudier l’opportunité de promouvoir la production d’électricité à partir d’énergies renouvelables…
- News 17 June 2021 Now available: Capacity building modules for transparency It just got easier to use the series of Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Policy Assessment Guides with four new capacity building modules – Introductory guide, Sustainable development, Transformational change and Stakeholder participation – to introduce the guides and let users interact and explore cases and carry out exercises. The capacity building modules build on UNEP DTU Partnership’s expertise in developing and using the ICAT…