Measure, Verify & Optimise
Protect and extend performance
Savings identified and implemented on paper rarely sustain themselves without active management. Equipment drifts, operating patterns change, and without continuous oversight the efficiency gains erode. Lumina provides IPMVP-compliant verification of investment performance, combined with ongoing monitoring and a structured optimisation programme to ensure savings hold and grow over time.
Why savings erode
Many energy efficiency investments fail to deliver consistent savings over time. The absence of an active energy management strategy and an ongoing optimisation plan means that performance gradually drifts, controls reset, maintenance falls behind schedule, consumption creeps upward, and nobody notices until the next utility bill review.
Lumina's approach is circular: measure performance against the established baseline, identify any deviation, act to correct it, and update the Register of Opportunities with new measures as they surface. This cycle runs continuously, with monthly reporting and regular review meetings with the client's energy team.
Measurement and Verification
Lumina's M&V reports adhere to the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP), the global standard for independently verifying energy savings. IPMVP-compliant verification provides credible, financeable evidence that the investment has performed as intended.
- Baseline establishment using pre-implementation metering data from Lumina+
- Savings calculated against the baseline using IPMVP Option A, B, or C as appropriate
- Monthly M&V reports tracking actual savings against targets
- Immediate identification and root-cause analysis of any underperformance
- Independent verification suitable for board reporting, financing, and grant compliance
Baseline establishment using pre-implementation metering data from Lumina+Certification
Lumina's M&V engineers are Certified Measurement and Verification Professionals, qualified to IPMVP standard.
Ongoing optimisation
Verification tells you what has happened. Optimisation determines what happens next. Lumina maintains a live Register of Opportunities for each client, updated continuously as new data surfaces and reviewed with the client's energy team every month.
- Continuous monitoring via the Lumina+ platform using live meter and sensor data
- Immediate identification and correction of areas of underperformance
- Monthly review meeting with the client's energy team to discuss findings
- Ongoing recommendation of new improvement opportunities: low-cost measures and capital investments
- Stakeholder engagement support across the wider organisation
- Annual performance review against carbon reduction targets and roadmap milestones
Powered by Lumina+
M&V and optimisation are only as good as the data that underpins them. Lumina uses the Lumina+ platform to capture live data from meters and sensors across the client's estate, providing the real-time visibility needed to identify underperformance promptly, not retrospectively.
- Live sub-metering data at equipment and system level
- Automated anomaly detection flagging deviations from expected performance
- Energy and carbon dashboards giving the client's team direct visibility
- Automated monthly reporting, removing manual data collection
- Historical data retention for long-term trend analysis and baseline maintenance
Live data intake
Sub-metering from sensors and meters across the site in real time
Lumina+ platform
ML algorithms and IPMVP protocols process data continuously
Anomaly detection
Deviations from expected performance are flagged automatically
Human expert layer
Lumina engineers review each alarm and advise the client on corrective action
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