International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP) - Concepts and Options for Determining Energy and Water Savings. Volume I defines terminology and suggests good practices for documenting the effectiveness of energy or water efficiency projects that are implemented in buildings and industrial facilities.

These terms and practices help managers to prepare M&V Plans, which specify how savings will be measured for each project.

The EU Cost Effective project is splitted into 7 Work Packages (WP). Each WP delivers a set of confidential (restricted to project partners) and public reports which serve dissemination activities.

11 public reports are now available and can be downloaded from the Publication section, in the Info material index. Other are expected within the next coming months.

Up to now, solar air collectors were not considered in CEN standards dealing with solar energy and more specifically with solar collectors (EN 12975 parts 1 and 2).

Thanks to the Cost Effective project, this problem has been solved out and solar air collectors are now included in the scope of the revised serie of standards EN 12975. These draft versions contain requirements on durability, reliability and safety for solar air collectors (EN 12975-1) as well as test methods for validating these requirements and measuring the thermal performance of collector (EN 12975-2).