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Why Measure & Verify Savings?
Proving energy project ROI; building confidence for future investment; compliance & reporting.
10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026
You implement an energy project; the bills go down - or do they? Proving that a saving is real, and quantifying it credibly, is the job of measurement and verification (M&V). Without it, energy savings are just claims.
In this lesson
- 01The problem M&V solves
- 02Why it matters
- 03The cost of getting it wrong
- 04What M&V involves
- 05The IPMVP framework
- 06The mindset
- 07Sources and further reading