ECO.10:4.1 - State the comparison

Name the service or other useful result in units that preserve the needed performance. Identify the resource whose total matters, the affected activities, the period and the situation without the proposed improvement. A cost reduction, an energy reduction and an emissions reduction are different claims.

Use three totals under the same resource account: use without the improvement, use after the improvement at the counterfactual output without an induced response, and use after the response. The first minus the second is the fixed-output saving; the third minus the second is the response-induced change. Include equipment, infrastructure or transition burdens in the relevant totals when they matter to the claimed scope. A burden that arises even at unchanged output belongs in the second total, not in the demand response. Reuse the relevant PHY, MMP, OPS, MA or FIN result.