Energy Efficiency Consultancies Editing and Proofreading Services

The building used less energy this year. The lighting was replaced, the controls were rewritten, and the consumption fell by nineteen per cent. It was also a mild winter, one floor was empty for four months, and the tenant changed their hours. Somewhere inside that nineteen per cent is the number the project actually delivered, and every party has a different view about which parts belong to them.

We edit what energy efficiency consultancies produce — savings claims and measurement and verification plans, baseline definitions and adjustment methodologies, energy audit reports and recommendations, business cases and payback calculations, energy performance contracts and guarantee schedules, monitoring and targeting reports, retrofit specifications and scopes of work, funding and grant applications, building performance and display certificate documentation, post-installation verification reports, and client-facing reporting on savings achieved. Our editors work on the document that decides what counts as a saving.

The measurement and verification plan is where an efficiency project becomes accountable or arguable, and its whole job is to settle in advance what the baseline is and how it adjusts. Written afterwards, it is written to the answer. We work through these so the baseline period is defined with dates, the data source and what was happening in the building at the time, since a baseline year containing an unusually cold February is a baseline that flatters everything; so the routine adjustments are specified before installation — degree days, occupancy, production volume, operating hours — with the exact method and data source for each, because the argument is never about whether to adjust but about how; so non-routine adjustments are defined as a process with a trigger rather than left to negotiation, given that a floor going empty is the event that decides the number and nobody wants to discuss it afterwards; so the measurement boundary is drawn explicitly, with what is inside it and what is outside; so the savings calculation is stated as an equation using named variables rather than described; and so the level of accuracy is stated honestly, as a claim of nineteen per cent to two decimal places from three meters and a spreadsheet is not credible. Plans written this way get paid against without argument.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including client data, contracts and performance results. We are editors rather than energy, engineering or measurement specialists, and we offer no view on savings, methods or verification. What we can do is make the baseline something both parties agreed to before the work started.