The monitoring methodology employed by Energy Mad was the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism Approved Methodology AM0046, ‘Distribution of efficient light bulbs to households’. The methodology required the monitoring of a large statistically representative pool of 250 households to measure their lighting energy consumption.

The monitoring phase required extensive written and verbal consultation with the households in addition to site visits to monitor over 1,200 individual light bulbs. The results from the monitoring phase were used to calculate an average electricity saving per installed Ecobulb. This result was then used to calculate the emission reductions created by each installed Ecobulb.