Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining an energy per resource element (EPRE) ratio for non-zero power (NZP) channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) when a device is measuring a wireless channel. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining, based on an indication, an energy per resource element (EPRE) ratio for a non-zero power (NZP) channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and measuring a channel based on the determined EPRE ratio and CSI-RSs associated with the NZP CSI-RS resource.