Evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V) activities provide customers with information on the performance of their programs. EM&V can be done for official impact reporting, regulatory compliance, or simply to better understand and improve programs.

• Demand response impact evaluation
  We can help you understand what to report on and quantify the impacts for you, including cleaning and preparing interval meter data, defining baseline conditions, and calculating the curtailed load from each DR event.

• Energy efficiency & electrification impact evaluation
  Whether your focus is energy savings, emissions reductions, or reducing customer bills, we can use a variety of best-practice approaches to quantify program impacts and prepare a defensible report that accurately communicates the impact of your programs.

• Program process evaluation
  We can design and coordinate research to help you understand how participants perceive and engage with a program, evaluate the effectiveness of internal program processes, and recommend changes to reduce costs and improve results.

• Project-level EM&V
  We can develop an EM&V plan for a specific project, install data loggers, analyze data, and prepare a report that quantifies actual project savings.
  

Are you focused on GHG reductions? Let us help you understand your current emissions profile and quantify the impacts from past projects or ideas for new ones.

• GHG emission inventory
  Using industry standard methods like ISO-14064, we can help you understand your current carbon footprint and where there is room for improvement.

• Estimating GHG reductions
  Have ideas for GHG reduction projects?  We can help estimate the impact these projects will have to your Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

• EM&V for GHG reduction initiatives
  We can help quantify the annual and lifetime GHG emission reductions from a project or program that you've implemented.

The energy transition comprises many emerging and intersecting business areas; BEA can help you navigate those topics and prioritize them for your business.

• Innovation framework
  We can help you structure your business and teams to tackle innovative projects and topics.

• Emerging technologies
  We can help you navigate emerging topics like market transformation, demand response, distributed energy resources, deep retrofits, electric vehicles, behind-the-meter batteries, and electrification.

• New measure addition
  Adding a new technology to your rebate offerings?  We can develop an appropriate savings calculation or deemed savings value, identify what technical data should be collected from every participant, and coordinate with your programs and tracking system teams to ensure a quick launch.

We have experience planning and forecasting from the measure-level up to the portfolio-level. That can include identifying emerging topics and technologies, modelling a portfolio of programs for a regulatory filing, or something else to fit with your own corporate planning activities.

• Program and portfolio design and optimization
  We will help you with long-term planning and modelling, optimizing your portfolio to achieve your performance targets and prepare for the future.

• Pilot design
  We will help you design pilots to meet your corporate objectives. We will lead or support development of those pilots including creating budgets, documentation, and project management tools and processes.

• Strategy
  We will help you understand how evolving markets and customer needs create risks and opportunities for your measures, programs, or portfolio.

With over 25 years of combined experience planning and delivering on projects, we can help move your project forward when you're in a pinch or under-resourced.

• Project scoping and procurement
  We can help you define objectives, develop a project scope, budget, and timeline, and run a procurement process to ensure you build out the best team to get the job done.

• Small and ad-hoc projects management
  Some projects are time-sensitive or too small to hire an FTE to complete. Add us to your team and we can help you move these projects forward without delay.

We have experience using and configuring several different Customer Information Systems (CIS) for use in program administration. Let us help you choose, configure, and establish best-practices for how to use your systems.

• CIS project planning & procurement
  We can help you understand what you'll achieve with a new CIS system, design a procurement process to ensure you get the best value from a vendor, and help plan your CIS implementation.

• CIS implementation support & project management
  We can help keep your CIS implementation on track by coordinating tasks and deliverables across the various teams and software partners that are involved.

• CIS savings and incentive calculations
  Whether you use a packaged CIS solution or a system of spreadsheets, we can ensure your results are accurate by building or auditing these critical calculations.

The energy transition requires complex interactions between policies, codes, standards, and programs. With over 25 years of combined experience, we can help you create well-considered, effective polices.

• Codes and standards
  We can help you navigate the latest changes to the National Building Code of Canada (NBC); That can include high-level policy development, low-level compliance processes and training, and everything in between.

• Regulatory strategy and compliance
  We can help you develop a strategy for regulatory matters that achieves your objectives, and help you develop an approach to implementing any regulatory directives.

• Regulatory application development & IR support
  We can help you write or edit regulatory applications, prepare evidence, draft responses to Information Requests (IRs), and draft IRs to other intervenors.

• Policy development, review, and assessment
  We can help you evaluate or design policy to achieve your energy transition objectives though a combination of technical analyses, industry best-practices, stakeholder engagement, and your specific regional directives or mandates.

• Benefit-cost analysis
  We can help you design and implement a benefit cost analysis (BCA) test based on the National Standard Practice Manual or your own regionally-specific criteria. We can also help flesh out your BCA analysis by including perspectives in addition to your primary test, such as rate and bill impact analyses, isolation of impacts for low-income customers or other groups, and utility payback analyses.
  
  

We can help you with your specific research objectives.

• Primary research
  We can help you with primary research and field work, which may include customer and peer surveys, interviews, focus groups, and more, depending on your needs.

• Secondary research
  We can help you with secondary research, e.g., jurisdictional scans and literature reviews.

• Field studies for new technologies
  We can help you understand the performance of new technologies by designing an M&V plan, specifying equipment, working with partners in the field to collect data, and analyzing the results.

Think we could help your team get up to speed quickly on some aspect of the DSM industry? Let us design and deliver a custom staff training program for you.