Application Form: Part B Method Details
Project Impact Assessment with
Measurement and Verification
Energy Savings Scheme
May 2016
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IPART Application Form: Part B - Method Details - PIAM&V V3.0
Document Control
Version number
Change description
Date published
V2.0
Initial release: Application Form: Part B – Method
Details and Evidence Package removed from the
Method Guide to be separate documents.
9 February 2015
V2.1
Included statement on submitting a partial
response to Application Form: Part B.
6 May 2015
V3.0
Update following amendments to the Energy
Savings Scheme Rule of 2009
May 2016
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Contents
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About this form
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Method details
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Forward or annual creation of ESCs
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Method eligibility
4.1 Implementation date (multi-site activities only)
4.2 Maintenance of production and service levels
4.3 Efficiency requirement for installing new end-user equipment (if
applicable)
4.4 Recycling (if applicable)
4.5 Energy type
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Measurement and verification
5.1 Metering equipment – multi-site
5.2 Metering equipment – planned project – existing site
5.3 Changes to metering arrangements
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Calculating energy savings
6.1 Implementations at a site from other RESAs
6.2 Selecting independent variables and site constants
6.3 Determining the normal year and normal operations (forward creation
only)
6.4 Determining the effective range
6.5 Estimating interactive energy savings
6.6 Determining the accuracy factor
6.7 Maximum time period for forward creation
6.8 Use of a Measurement and Verification (M&V) Professional
6.9 Use of the PIAM&V Tool
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About this form
A completed application tailored to this energy savings method is required for a
person or organisation to become an Accredited Certificate Provider (ACP) and
generate Energy Savings Certificates (ESCs). An application has multiple parts,
which are explained in the Application Guide for ESS Accreditation (Application
Guide).1 As a minimum, you will have to provide:
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Application Form: Part A - General Details, available on the ESS website, and
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Application Form: Part B - Method Details, this form.
This form captures the method details for the Project Impact Assessment with
Measurement and Verification Method (the method). The form can be completed
by applicants using the information provided in the Method Guide Project
Impact Assessment with Measurement and Verification (Method Guide).2
Please complete this form, and provide it with any required supporting
documentation as part of your application for accreditation.
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The Application Guide and forms can be found on the ESS website at:
http://www.ess.nsw.gov.au/How_to_apply_for_accreditation/Apply_now__guides_and_application_forms
The Method Guide is available on the ESS website at:
http://www.ess.nsw.gov.au/Methods_for_calculating_energy_savings/Project_Impact_Assess
ment_with_MV
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Method details
Which application option are you using?
Select One
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Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Note: Refer section 6 of the Method Guide for more information on application options.
Are you applying to amend an existing PIAM3 accreditation to enable use of the
PIAM&V method?
No
☐ Please skip the next question
Yes
☐ Please go to the next question
If you answered ‘Yes’ to the previous question, do you intend to continue using PIAM
to calculate energy savings for past implementations?
No – I would like to use PIAM&V to calculate any additional energy
savings for past implementations
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Yes – I will continue to use PIAM to calculate any additional energy
savings from past implementations but would like to use PIAM&V to
calculate energy savings for future implementations
[Click and type here]
Comments:
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What model type do you propose to use to establish your baseline and
operating energy models?
Energy model type
Select One
Estimate of the mean
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Regression analysis
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Computer simulation
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Are you submitting evidence from a completed project in support of your
application for accreditation? If yes, please insert a description of the project
and list the documents you have provided.
No
☐ Please go to the next question
Yes*
☐ [Click and type here]
*Note: As the project is implemented already, you will not be able to create ESCs for the
implementation.
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Are you submitting evidence from a theoretical project in support of your
application to enable you to become accredited to implement a project in the
future? If you answer yes, please insert a description of the project and list the
documents you have provided.
No**
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Yes
☐ [Click and type here]
**If accredited, you will need to submit evidence of an implementation as part of an
application for amendment of your accreditation conditions in order to get Scheme
Administrator approval to create ESCs. Refer section 6 of the Method Guide.
Have you attached a measurement and verification plan?
YES
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NO (to be provided in the future)
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Forward or annual creation of ESCs
Please indicate if you intend to forward create energy savings certificates.
Select One
I want to forward create energy savings certificates
I want to annually create energy savings certificates
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If forward creating, please indicate if you intend to top-up the energy savings
certificates at some time in the future.
YES – I intend to top-up the energy savings certificates
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NO – I do not intend to top-up the energy savings certificates
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Method eligibility
4.1
Implementation date (multi-site activities only)
Please explain how you will determine the implementation date for future
implementations.
[Click and type here]
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4.2
Maintenance of production and service levels
Please describe how you will ensure that any reductions in electricity or gas
consumption for an implementation at a site have not arisen from a reduction
in service or production levels.
[Click and type here]
4.3
Efficiency requirement for installing new end-user equipment
(if applicable)
Please describe your process to satisfy the Scheme Administrator that the
efficiency of the new end-user equipment that you intend to install (where none
currently exists) will be greater than the average energy efficiency of the enduser equipment that provides the same type, function, output or service.
[Click and type here]
4.4
Recycling (if applicable)
Please describe your process to ensure that any lighting equipment containing
mercury removed or replaced during a lighting upgrade will be recycled in
accordance with the recycling requirements of a product stewardship scheme.4
[Click and type here]
4.5
Energy type
Please indicate whether you will be calculating electricity savings, gas savings
or both. If you are intending to include gas, please list the types of gas you will
be including.5
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Electricity
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Gas - [Click and type here]
If your RESA will involve fuel switching, please indicate how you will ensure
that there is no net increase in greenhouse gas emissions.6
[Click and type here]
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Such as ‘Fluorocycle’ or equivalent
Refer National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008 (Cth) Schedule
1 Part 2—Fuel combustion—gaseous fuels
Refer clause 5.4 of the ESS Rule
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Measurement and verification
5.1
Metering equipment – multi-site
Please describe the process you will use to ensure that the metering
equipment is adequate to measure reductions in electricity or gas consumption
at each site.
[Click and type here]
Please attach your documented process that explains how you will define the
frequency of measurements over the measurement period and which types of
end-user equipment will have their energy consumption measured.
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Attached
5.2
Metering equipment – planned project – existing site
If you are providing information about an existing project, please attach a
detailed description of the existing metering equipment and attach a drawing
or schematic to demonstrate the measurement boundary.
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YES
Not applicable
If using a non-utility meter, please outline the current processes and persons
responsible for testing and calibration of the metering equipment at the site.
[Click and type here]
5.3
Changes to metering arrangements
Please explain the process you will follow if the metering arrangement is
changed at a site after the implementation.
[Click and type here]
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Calculating energy savings
6.1
Implementations at a site from other RESAs
Please describe how you will identify and account for any activities at a site for
which ESCs have been, or will be, created under another RESA, or for energy
savings that resulted in a benefit being realised under a corresponding scheme
(counted energy savings).
[Click and type here]
6.2
Selecting independent variables and site constants
Please describe how you will select appropriate independent variables and site
constants for implementations.
If you attach a document with further
description please indicate this in your response.
[Click and type here]
6.3
Determining the normal year and normal operations (forward
creation only)
Please describe how you will determine the normal year and normal operations
for implementations. If you attach a document with further description please
indicate this in your response.
[Click and type here]
6.4
Determining the effective range
Please describe how you will determine the effective range for an
implementation. If you attach a document with further description please
indicate this in your response.
[Click and type here]
6.5
Estimating interactive energy savings
Please describe how you will estimate any interactive energy savings for
implementations. If you attach a document with further description please
indicate this in your response.
[Click and type here]
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Determining the accuracy factor
Please describe how you will determine the accuracy factor for
implementations. If you attach a document with further description please
indicate this in your response.
[Click and type here]
6.7
Maximum time period for forward creation
Please describe how you will determine the maximum time period for forward
creation, in particular how you will use a persistence model. If you attach a
document with further description please indicate this in your response.
[Click and type here]
6.8
Use of a Measurement and Verification (M&V) Professional
Please describe how you will engage an independent M&V Professional and at
what stages you will involve them in your RESA.
[Click and type here]
6.9
Use of the PIAM&V Tool
Will you use your own calculations, or the PIAM&V Tool developed by the
Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), to calculate energy savings?
Select
Own calculations - estimate of the mean
Own calculations - linear regression
Own calculations - computer simulation
OEH tool (linear regression/forward creation only)
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