NYSERDA Impact Evaluation
ERS is the prime contractor with four subcontractors assessing the impact of eleven of NYSERDA’s gas energy efficiency programs. The programs address existing and new construction, commercial, multi-family, and single-family residential programs, market rate, and low-income housing. The evaluation scope includes computing energy impacts, non-energy benefits, and program cost- effectiveness, and the calculations reflect the effect of economic factors such as free ridership and market effects including spillover. Gross savings analysis methods vary for each of the portfolios of programs evaluated and include both billing analysis and site-specific M&V. In addition to traditional impact evaluation tasks, the project scope includes special study of special study of condensing boiler performance including intense instrumentation at over a dozen sites.
