The Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme - submit a stand-out application with EEVS
Phase 4 of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) is now open for funding applications - until 25 November 2024. It’s a short window, but with significant funding available to help fast-track your energy-saving and decarbonisation goals, it is an opportunity not to be missed!
How EEVS can help
To win funding you will need to submit an outstanding application. Here are 3 ways EEVS can help:
1. Project Partner - we are leaders in the field of energy saving performance monitoring, measurement and verification (M&V). Our range of technical, analytical and governance skills are core requirements (see below for more detail) and will significantly enhance your PSDS bid.
2. Application Review - we act as independent experts and so are ideally placed to carry out any due diligence needed to give you comfort that the application is robust, error-free and delivers against all of the PSDS requirements (see examples below).
3. Verifying Savings - once successfully installed, independent verification of your scheme’s energy saving performance is industry best practice (as set down by IPMVP) will further enhance your application and help ensure the reliability and accuracy of any value-for-money claims in relation to the scheme.
Drafting a strong submission
Salix & DESNZ Guidance details how to submit a successful application. In addition to the grant carbon cost - a key factor in determining the success or otherwise of an application - EEVS can provide key technical support and capability to ensure you draft a strong and competitive application.
Key elements we can actively support include:
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This is EEVS specialism. Working to global best practice standard - the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol - EEVS will ensure all PSDS requirements are addressed to the highest standards, including:
· The energy savings calculations methodology – that these are correctly formulated, are error free, and fully explained via spreadsheet commentary.
· Baseline modelling – a specialist skillset for qualified experts (i.e. PMVA, PMVE, CMVP) we will ensure that any mathematically models are robust and adhere to IPMVP best practice.
· Use of Assumptions - we will ensure any assumptions put forward by your supplier are fully understood, reasonable and fully evidenced / explained as part of your bid.
· Avoiding double counting – a further PSDS requirement, EEVS expertise in this area will give you assurance that all savings estimates are robust and capable of withstanding detailed stakeholder scrutiny.
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EEVS can significantly boost your team’s competencies and capabilities in relation to energy saving performance analysis and reporting.
We are world-leading experts in the field of Measurement & Verification (M&V). All of our M&V work is delivered to global best practice standard, the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP) and our team includes some of the most experienced M&V experts around the world – formally accredited as Performance Measurement & Verification Experts (PMVEs).
We also bring a range of essential programme assurance, project management, supplier governance, technical and analytical skillsets into your bid team.
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EEVS can support your bid by ensuring robust project and programme management techniques and a strong collaborative approach are embedded from the outset.
We frequently take on the role of impartial project manager (sitting alongside buyer and supplier) to help ensure schemes stay on track and that all parties are accountable for delivering on their obligations and agreed actions.
To operationalise this we have developed a set of project governance and team management procedures and use an online task management and collaboration platform (Asana) to help embed these processes into the day-to-day activities of the team.
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A key part of any risk register will be the reliability and accuracy of the energy, cost and carbon savings (and value for money) that an investment is actually delivering once it is installed. And crucually, if this aligns with the values estimated by your supplier at the outset.
To ensure trusted savings figures an IPMVP-adherent Measurement & Verification process is essential.
As part of this, the inclusion of independent verification of your scheme’s ongoing saving impact, is industry best practice as it plays a key role mitigating the risk of material mis-statement of performance, and/or of making unverified and erroneous savings claims.
This is process is particularly important for energy efficiency investments given the specialist expertise needed to determine energy savings (i.e. how much energy use your organisation has avoided using as a result of an investment) and because significant commercial interests are likely to be at stake.
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The Guidance note states: “To measure the effectiveness of the project, applicants must provide an energy and carbon monitoring plan to show how each technology will be monitored and how the energy savings will be measured”
As leading independent experts in this field, EEVS will ensure your application includes a high quality, global best practice (IPMVP-adherent) plan that sets out a robust monitoring and M&V approach that will provide all parties certainty that savings will be accurately and correctly calculated and reported.
Furthermore, where a performance measurement role is set to be the responsibility of a supplier – and who will have a vested interest in the reported savings figures - best practice is to include for their saving claims to be verified by independent experts such as EEVS.
With access to trusted savings figures (not supplier claims), your organisation will be in strong position to make informed and confident decisions about future energy saving investments.
What Next?
The 25 November deadline is fast approaching, so please do get in touch as soon as possible if you think your application could benefit from EEVS support. Fill in the form below and we’ll get back to you straight away.