Measurement and verification
Measurement and verification your board can read.
Every fix and every project is measured against a learned baseline of how the building behaved before: what changed, what it cost, whether performance improved, and whether the savings persisted. Board-ready, audit-grade, generated automatically.
Definition
What is measurement and verification?
Measurement and verification (M&V) is how you prove energy savings with data instead of estimates: establish a baseline of how a building would have used energy, measure what it actually uses after a change, and report the difference. Done well, it turns "we think we saved" into "here is exactly what we saved, and here is the proof."
- Continuous, not once per project. Traditional M&V is a consultant's one-time study; Edviro verifies every fix against a live baseline as it lands.
- Work orders too. When a work order from a detected problem closes, the data has to confirm the problem stopped: the last step of the facilities operations loop.
- Evidence for the budget. Verified results are what make capital planning defensible.
How Edviro verifies
A baseline that learns, and proof that updates itself.
Three steps, run continuously for every site instead of once per project.
A model fit to meter data, weather, schedules, and tariffs predicts what normal would have used.
Real consumption tracked against the baseline continuously, per site, from the moment a fix lands.
The difference, the method, and whether it held, generated as a report a board can read.
−21.4% verified vs baseline at a live high-school site
Where M&V matters most
M&V questions
Frequently asked
What is measurement and verification (M&V)?
Measurement and verification (M&V) is the process of using metered data to quantify how much energy a building actually saved compared to what it would have used otherwise. It establishes a baseline, measures real consumption after a change, and reports the difference so savings can be trusted rather than estimated.
How is an energy baseline created?
Edviro learns a baseline by fitting a model to your historical and live meter data, accounting for drivers like weather, schedules, occupancy, and tariffs. Every action is then measured against this learned baseline, so you can see exactly what changed and what it saved.
What makes M&V "audit-grade" or board-ready?
Audit-grade M&V ties every reported saving back to measured data against a documented baseline, with methodology that holds up to outside scrutiny. Edviro generates these reports automatically so facilities leaders can show boards, owners, and lenders proof rather than promises.
How does Edviro know its fixes actually saved energy?
After a change is made, Edviro checks the meter data and the bill against the baseline. If the change did not produce the expected savings, Edviro flags it, so you only count savings that are real.
Does verification apply to work orders, or only to energy projects?
Both. When a work order that came from a detected problem is closed—a boiler that was short-cycling, a schedule that was running all weekend—Edviro checks the subsequent building and energy data to confirm the problem actually stopped. If it did not, the work is reopened with the evidence attached rather than counted as done. The same discipline covers retrofits and capital projects after they are funded.
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