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Members of the ICP Quality Assurance Network

ICP Quality Assurance ("QA") Assessors are experienced firms with the necessary qualifications and certifications to competently perform technical reviews of projects seeking IREE™ certification. ICP Quality Assurance Assessors play a crucial role in the ICP System and provide independent verification that projects are compliant with the ICP Protocol and are eligible for certification as Investor Ready Energy Efficiency™ projects. The ICP System requires that QA Assessors to be independent third-parties to the particular transaction, thus ensuring that there is no conflict of interest associated with the review.

The responsibilities of the ICP QA Assessors include ensuring that the project was developed according to the ICP Energy Performance Protocol and checking that the underlying methodologies, assumptions and results of projects seeking IREE certification follow best practices and are reasonable based on the reviewer’s professional experience and available guidelines. To assist ICP QA Assessors with this task ICP provides the ICP Project Development Specification, the ICP QA Specification, and the ICP QA Checklists. The end result is that street lighting owners, investors, and all project stakeholders can have confidence that projects that are successfully reviewed by ICP QA Assessors possess robust engineering and reliable predicted savings.

ICP Quality Assurance Network Requirements

ICP Quality Assurance Assessors must have the technical expertise and experience required to conduct thorough technical reviews of projects. Members must retain, either on staff or under contract, someone who:

Is a licensed Professional Engineer under a nationally recognised scheme which is relevant to energy in street lighting (e.g. Chartered Mechanical Engineer); or
Has an engineering or science degree, and a nationally or internationally recognised certification, which is relevant to energy in street lighting (e.g. CMVP certification, certified energy auditor) - these qualifications will be reviewed on a case by case basis.
That person must provide a Declaration of Honour stating that they have experience in reviewing street lighting energy efficiency projects spanning the five steps of the ICP process (Baselining, Savings Calculations, Design, Construction & Verification, Operations, Maintenance, Monitoring and Measurement & Verification);
That person must take the ICP Training
That person must take the Street Lighting QAA test
Participating entities must carry professional indemnity insurance (or equivalent according to national circumstances) to obtain Investor Ready Energy Efficiency™ (IREE) project certification.

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