ICP Protocol - Targeted Commercial 1.2 (ICP-TC)
The ICP Protocol for Targeted Commercial (ICP-TC) is designed for projects that involve individual or smaller sets of energy conservation measures (ECM) that focus on only one or a handful of building end-uses such as lighting, controls, HVAC replacement, etc. 

These targeted projects are less complex and typically affect only a portion of the building’s end-uses allowing for a more streamlined and cost effective engineering approach.  This protocol allows for the appropriate scaling of these development tasks, with respect to the balance of technical rigor and risk, and provides a standardized engineering framework that does not overly burden the project budget.
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The ICP Protocols are intended as base minimum requirements for an investment quality analysis and best practices to maintain, measure and verify the energy savings, not an exhaustive treatment of all possible techniques. Each section of the document establishes these minimum requirements and offers additional methods and tools that can be used to improve the reliability of savings estimation and measurement. Until the protocols have been applied and tested sufficient performance data exist for projects following the ICP Protocols, it is not possible to gauge the magnitude of the impact of these additional processes and tools on the confidence interval around savings projection. A checklist provided as part of this document is intended for inclusion in project documents.  Providers are asked to self-certify that they have fulfilled the requirements listed and to indicate what additional methods they applied.

This document will evolve over time. Some methods may move from an “additional” or “recommended” category to a standard requirement. Others may prove insignificant to the accuracy of projections relative to the time and effort they require. A scoring system may also be introduced to weight the importance of different components and provide an overall investment confidence score for potential energy efficiency projects. Members of the ICP invite engineers, building owners, software developers, prospective lenders and investors, and others to participate in testing and improving these protocols by applying them to retrofit projects and sharing their results.  

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