Projects

NV5 has led the Technical Consultant team for the Rhode Island Energy Efficiency and Resource Management Council (EERMC) since its inception in 2006. NV5’s role includes representing the EERMC on all aspects of negotiating efficiency programs, plans, goals and budgets with National Grid, the program administrator. NV5 also provides oversight[...]

Almost every state in the U.S. implements significant utility-delivered energy efficiency programs that reduce the need to use or build more expensive power plants. Energy efficiency has real and important impacts: per capita electric use declined by 7 percent between 2010 and 2016, even as gross domestic product (GDP) increased[...]

OVERVIEW OF SAVE FOR TOMORROW ENERGY PLAN (STEP) More than a decade ago, the City of San Antonio and their municipal utility – CPS Energy – launched the Save for Tomorrow Energy Plan (STEP) energy conservation program. The program was in part the result of citizen pressure on city council[...]

Virginia electric rates are among the highest in the south, and are higher than all but one neighboring states. Those rates, combined with low efficiency levels, mean Virginia ratepayers pay monthly electric bills that are among the very highest in the country. Energy efficiency is a significant opportunity to lower[...]

The purpose of these guidelines is to define procedures relating to the Cool Switch Low Impact Refrigerant Program (Cool Switch). Cool Switch promotes the use of refrigerants with a Global Warming Potential (GWP) lower than 1,500 by Delaware non-residential (commercial and industrial) customers. Refrigerants must also comply with existing Delaware[...]

Nationally, the potential for energy savings from multifamily properties is relatively untapped, as documented by multiple studies and reports over the years by a wide range of industry experts.1 In New York, there are several active efforts to promote more efficient use of energy, including the New York Public Service[...]

In Massachusetts, meeting the goals in the 2016-2018 three year plan and beyond will require savings from new tools and methods. The use of energy productivity metrics to measure changes in energy intensity for a variable, dynamic process is not a common method in Massachusetts. Strategic Energy Management programs (SEM)[...]

Historically, lighting has played a critical role in delivering cost-effective savings for the commercial and industrial sector, and the Mass Save program overall. As seen below (Figure 1), about 60% of net lifetime electric savings for C&I from 2016-2018 were from lighting, and this savings accounted for nearly 40% of[...]

NV5 assisted the Los Angeles Department of Public Works assess the ecological risks to the marine environment at Marina Del Rey, California posed by groundwater contamination. NV5 developed a Work Plan for Harbor Surface Water Sampling (Work Plan) to address requirements of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board.[...]

NV5 has been providing the County of San Diego Watershed Protection Program continuous flow monitoring at select Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) outfalls within the County’s unincorporated jurisdictional area. Continuous flow monitoring allows accurate estimates of flow rates in the County’s MS4 and provides real-time data to plan targeted[...]