Research
The building is the laboratory
The Negawatt Economy remains an action-based research program. Real-world deployments generate datasets that improve understanding of conservation, baselines, system performance, measurement, verification, and Proof of Conservation.
Open research questions
- 01How accurately can temporary instrumentation establish annualised plant performance?
- 02How long must a system be measured before a reliable baseline can be established?
- 03Can four weeks of high-resolution data predict annual conservation performance?
- 04How should weather and occupancy be normalised?
- 05How should uncertainty propagate into verified conservation?
- 06What constitutes sufficient evidence for Proof of Conservation?
- 07Can dMRV reduce the cost of conventional measurement and verification?
- 08How can equipment performance degradation be detected continuously?
- 09How should conservation be attributed where multiple parties contribute to an intervention?
Data Commons
Architected, not fully implemented
Future anonymised datasets may include chiller kW/RT, load profiles, intervention performance, and climate relationships. Commercial customer data never becomes public research data without explicit permission.
Collaboration
Who should apply
Universities, research institutes, laboratories, postgraduates, building science researchers, data scientists, legal and economics researchers, and technology providers working on measurable conservation.