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Energy Efficiency Mandates: What Are They About? Do They Work?

This article explores energy efficiency mandates and their effectiveness. It discusses various policies, acts, and initiatives aimed at promoting energy efficiency, and examines the impact of utility incentives, decoupling, and shared savings. The article also highlights the correlation between energy efficiency savings and electricity consumption in California, and addresses the challenges and opportunities of promoting energy efficiency, including the phase-out of incandescent bulbs and the importance of financing.

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Energy Efficiency Mandates: What Are They About? Do They Work?

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  1. Energy Efficiency Mandates What Are They About? Do They Work? 2009 NASUCA Mid-Year Meetings Cynthia Mitchell, Principal Energy Economics Inc.

  2. DOE’s 2006 National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency “NAPPE” “Modify policies to align utility incentives with the delivery of cost-effective energy efficiency, and modify ratemaking practices to promote efficiency investments.”

  3. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 “EISA” Modified PURPA 1978 to promote EE investments • Align utility incentives with the delivery of cost-effective EE • Remove the throughput incentive (aka “lost revenues”) • Provide additional utility incentives

  4. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 • “Ensure utility financial incentives are aligned with helping customers use energy more efficiently.” • “Provide timely cost recovery and timely earnings opportunity for utilities with cost-effective measurable and verifiable energy savings.”

  5. Back to the Future • CA decoupling; 2007 net benefits /shared savings IOUs 9 – 12% sharing rate • Jim Rogers, Duke Energy net benefits / shared savings IOU 80% sharing rate • Arkansas: decoupling; lost revenues; addtl. utility incentives • New Mexico: decoupling; 1 cent kWh & $10 kW lifecycle EE savings paid in Year 1.

  6. CA Cumulative Energy GWh Savings: Utility EE Programs and Bldg. & Appliance Standards

  7. Per Capita Electricity Use in the U.S. and CA: 1960-2004

  8. March 2009 PUF Article CA electricity per capita consumption: correlation or “cause and effect” • < 20% energy efficiency savings • > 20% CA electricity prices • 20% CA moderate cooling season Trend: decrease industrial energy intensity; larger households; more MF dwellings; “conservation ethic”

  9. CA Cumulative Energy GWh Savings: Utility EE Programs and Bldg. & Appliance Standards

  10. Re-ordered CA Cumulative Energy GWh Savings: Utility EE Programs and Standards

  11. Let’s Talk CFLs…. • Wal-Mart effect • Market transformation • CFL quality: utilities vs. “Wal-Mart” • Legislative phase-out incandescents • Ratepayers as consumers pay 2 times+ • Residential lighting largely winter off peak • Negative interactive effects

  12. What is (?) Working • Efficiency Vermont 1990; Efficiency Maine 2002; Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility 2007 • Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA); Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership (NEEP); Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA) • State public – private partnerships: Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York; Ohio

  13. Closing Thought: FINANCING! We currently have on-bill financing for power plants, and T&D. We must be able to pay for energy efficiency and other sustainable resources in a similar manner.

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