Craig Sinnamon
Power TakeOff | Director of Analytics and Data Management
Speaker
Track I: Energy Services
Session I1: M&V: Measuring What Matters
September 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Granular Energy Savings and GHG Profiles for a Commercial O&M Program
This presentation focuses on a Measurement and Verification (M&V) for a commercial building focused operational and maintenance (O&M) energy efficiency program. We develop site level regression models for hundreds of implemented projects to generate 8760-hour savings load profiles for O&M measures. These profiles provide granular insight into how O&M measures impact energy consumption across the entire year.
In addition to energy savings, this presentation integrates emissions data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Cambium dataset, providing a comprehensive analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction by time of year and geography. By correlating load shapes with time-varying carbon intensity, the results highlight the decarbonization potential of O&M initiatives, offering insights into optimizing program design for both energy and GHG savings.
The savings and carbon reduction load shapes are combined based on the business sector of the buildings to present aggregate profiles that can be used to inform emissions reduction strategies and grid impacts of O&M programs.
Speaker Bio
Craig Sinnamon has a background in mathematics and has worked to advance methodology and basic assumptions around weather data and how to model the impacts of energy efficiency programs using machine learning and big data analysis. His primary research focuses have been around adapting for grid level impacts including non-routine events, improving modeling methodologies to utilize high granularity advanced metering infrastructure data, updating weather sources used for savings claims and grid planning, and decarbonization data sources. He is currently employed as the Director of Analytics and Data Management at Power TakeOff, a utility implementation contractor.