An annual M&V report under IPMVP must contain: an executive summary with total savings, a summarised methodology, monthly data (consumption plus adjustments), a comparison of expected versus realised savings, an analysis of any deviations, and transparent access to the raw data.

A standard IPMVP-conformant M&V report opens with a one-to-two-page executive summary giving savings in energy units, currency and percent of baseline. It then documents the methodology (selected IPMVP option, independent variables, regression formulas), presents the monthly baseline-versus-reporting comparison as both tables and charts, and shows the savings calculation with the adjustments applied each month. A dedicated section reconciles expected against realised savings, attributing any positive or negative variance to identified causes, and an annex publishes the raw metered data so a third party can re-run the calculation. The report is signed by the M&V engineer and the client representative, and frequently by an independent verifier in an EPC context.

Treat the raw-data annex as non-negotiable: a report whose numbers cannot be reproduced from the published data is not IPMVP-conformant, no matter how polished its narrative.