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New Items
- State Electric Efficiency Regulatory Frameworks by IEE, July 2010
The Institute continues to track developments in performance incentives and cost recovery and lost revenue recovery mechanisms. This piece summarizes the research to date on a state-by-state basis and will be updated periodically.
- Updated Summary of Ratepayer-Funded Electric Efficiency Impacts, Expenditures, and Budgets (Based on CEE/IEE Industry Database) by IEE, May 2010
In 2009 the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE), with the Institute for Electric Efficiency (IEE) and the American Gas Association (AGA), collected industry-wide data on ratepayer-funded energy impacts, expenditures, and budgets for energy efficiency programs from utility and non-utility administrators of energy efficiency in the U.S. and Canada. This brief summarizes the U.S. ratepayer-funded electric efficiency results based on voluntary responses from 133 electric efficiency program administrators nationwide including 2009 budgets of $4.4 billion and savings of over 96 billion kWh in 2008. This updated version corrects Table 2, updating state-by-state spending and budget figures.
- Changes in State Regulatory Frameworks for Utility Administered Energy Efficiency Programs by IEE, April 2010
Over the past two years, state regulatory commissions have made significant progress in aligning utility incentives to invest in energy efficiency. As a result, budgets for electric energy efficiency programs have increased significantly, from $2.7 billion in 20007 to $4.4 billion in 2009. This document sumarizes the status of state regulatory frameworks for utility administered energy efficiency programs (direct cost recovery, lost revenue recovery, and performance incentives) in the U.S. and highlights the changes between 2007 and the present.
- Utility-Scale Smart Meter Deployments, Plans & Proposals by IEE, February 2010
Developed by the IEE, the latest update to this map shows utility-scale smart meter deployments by state and lists the projects by utility. This edition includes programs funded through the ARRA.
Dynamic Pricing and Smart Grid Resources
- Summary of Dynamic Pricing Programs for the Residential Sector, by IEE, December 2009
This map indicates which states have at least one IOU-administered dynamic pricing program available to residential
customers. Dynamic pricing programs covered in this summary include critical peak pricing (CPP), real time pricing
(RTP), and peak time rebate (PTR)/critical peak rebate (CPR) rate structures.
- Rethinking 'Dumb' Rates, by Rick Morgan, Public Utilities Fortnightly, March 2009
In this article, Commissioner Rick Morgan discusses the need for smart rates to complement smart meters, grids, and appliances. It includes a description of different dynamic pricing mechanisms and consumer benefits.
- Home Area Network (HAN) Overview by PG&E, January 2009
This presentation from Pacific Gas and Electric summarizes current developments in home area network deployment, technology, integration with smart grid strategy, and the different types of HAN programs.
- Smart Meter Program Overview by PG&E, December 2008
Pacific Gas & Electric has one of the most ambitious smart meter programs in the country and anticipates providing each of their customers with an advanced meter by 2012. This presentation reviews the technology, their deployment strategy, and the dynamic pricing structure to complement the meters.
- The IEE organized an eForum in November 2008 to provide an opportunity for members to discuss recent pilots and lessons learned. The following three presentations summarize the programs for Baltimore Gas & Electric, PSE&G, and Southern California Edison.
Presentations
- The Impact of Dynamic Pricing on Low Income Customers - IEE Whitepaper, June 2010 by Lisa Wood, July 2010
In this presentation to the NARUC ERE Committee, Lisa Wood outlines the issue of dynamic prices' effect on on low income customers and summarizes the findings of IEE's June 2010 study.
- Ratepayer-funded Energy Efficiency: Nationwide Trends by Lisa wood, June 2010
This presentation to the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission Energy Efficiency Workshop outlines major trends affecting the energy efficiency community nationwide.
- Energizing Growth: Opportunities in the New Energy Economy by Lisa Wood, May 2010
This presentation to the Council of State Governments describes the potential opportunities for energy efficiency savings and and provides an overview of efficiency as a resource for state legislators.
- Smart Meters Provide Multiple Benefits to Customers by Lisa Wood, May 2010
In this presentation to the Utilities Telecom Council Smart Grid Policy Summit, Lisa Wood discusses the scope and scale of smart meter rollouts nationwide and the diversity of benefits smart meters deliver customers.
- Consumers are the Key to Future Smart Energy Management by Lisa Wood, March 2010
In this presentation to the Eastern New Mexico State University Center for Public Utilities Current Issues 2010 conference, Lisa Wood explains the paradigm shift smart meter ennabled consumer energy management tools pose for electric utilities.
- Thoughts on Factors Affecting Customer Bills in Bakersfield, CA - Summer 2009 by Lisa Wood, February 2010
In this presentation to the NARUC Winter Committee Meetings, Lisa Wood presents a preliminary analysis of customer electric rates in Bakersfield, CA for summer 2008 vs. summer 2009, provinding an alternate explanation for high customer bills that indicates warm weather and California's tiered rate structures, and not smart meter inaccuracies, are largely responsible for the bill increases.
- Impact of Energy Efficiency & Demand Response on Electricity Demand by Lisa Wood, October 2009
In this presentation to the Atlantic Council, Lisa Wood presents an overview of the need for increased energy efficiency, the potential for energy efficiency in the next twenty years, and the shifting regulatory landscape.
- Overview of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S. Market by Lisa Wood, June 2009
This presentation outlines how much is being spent on energy efficiency and demand response by electric utilities, as well as some of the considerable policy challenges ahead.
- Summary of the Waxman-Markey Bill: Efficiency Provisions by IEE, June 2009
This summary prepared by IEE staff summarizes the energy efficiency provisions of HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (the Waxman-Markey Bill). Notably, the bill includes energy efficiency as an eligible portion of the proposed Renewable Electricity Standard.
- Energy Efficiency Spending and Savings Nationwide by Lisa Wood, April 2009
Using historic data from EIA and projections from EPRI's latest forecast, this presentation shows the achieved savings attributable to energy efficiency and demand response programs, as well as the considerable, yet very feasible, potential savings from effective and widespread energy efficiency programs.
- Taking Demand Response to New Levels by Lisa Wood, NARUC Winter Committee Meeting, February 2009
In this presentation delivered before the NARUC Committee on Electricity, Lisa Wood discusses the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure and the importance of dynamic pricing in engaging the mass market.
- Potential for Energy Efficiency in the Power Sector and the Role of IEE by Lisa Wood, January 2009
This presentation is a primer on the importance of energy efficiency and its potential in addressing future demand for electricity. The forecast numbers are taken from a January 2009 EPRI report and present realistically achievable savings for energy efficiency and demand response programs nationwide.
- Customer Response to Demand Side Technologies by Lisa Wood, GridWeek, September 2008
This presentation was delivered during the Impact of Consumer Choice & Control panel, where IEE Executive Director Lisa Wood addressed the relationship between efficient pricing and technology in effective demand response programs.
Articles
- New Directions in Energy Efficiency by Lisa Wood, April 2010
Community-based outreach is just one of the exciting new approaches that the electric power industry is taking to help their customers become more energy efficient. This article, published in Platt's Insight magazine, describes several key trends in the energy efficiency community, including new approaches to program outread, developments in the regulatory landscape, growing budgets and savings goals and mandates, and the importance of energy efficiency as a sustainable value proposition for electric utility business models.
- EE at Work: The Innovation is in the Outreach by Lisa Wood, April 2010
Despite recent expansions of EE efforts nationwide, there is a large and persistent gap between potential and achieved savings. Social marketing is a promising strategy for closing this gap, and community based approaches have the potential to significantly increase EE program penetration rates. This article outlines Progress Energy's Neighborhood Energy Saver program, which is harnessing the power of communities to capture savings in traditionally hard to reach markets.
- Alternative Financing Mechanisms for Energy Efficiency by Matthew McCaffree, February 2010
Alternative financing mechanisms can provide consumers with the access to capital they need in order to afford energy efficiency investments. This brief explores financing as a barrier to efficiency investment, the types of solutions being employed by utilities nationwide, and how electric utilities view the potential benefits and risks of alternative financing.
- EE at Work: Incentives and Investments by Lisa Wood, February 2010
Despite it's importance to utility resource portfolios, aggressive implementation of EE has often lagged in the past due to regulatory policies that put it on an unequal playing field with investments in supply-side resources. But, adoption of state regulatory policies that balance utility incentives and EE investments is on the upswing and is reflected in increased budgets for EE programs nationwide. This article discusses recent progress on regulatory frameworks for EE.
- "The Right Price" by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, November/December 2009
The high cost of serving
customers during peak
demand hours can be ameliorated or avoided entirely through pricing mechanisms that more accurately reflect that cost. This article for the final EP edition of 2009 summarizes different types of dynamic pricing mechanisms and outlines the benefits to both utilities and customers.
- EE at Work: Accepting Codes & Standards by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, October 2009
This edition of EE at Work focuses on the need for more ambitious codes and standards in order to promote energy efficiency. The article includes past examples as well as opportunities for the US utility sector.
- EE at Work: Real-Time Building Tune-Ups by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, August 2009
Building commissioning has traditionally been a punctuated effort - energy use is optimized when buildings are first occupied and, if under energy-conscious management, periodically thereafter. This article discusses the process and promise of efficiency gains through monitoring-based building commissioning, which continually monitors and adjusts energy use within a facility.
- Smart Meters and Rates: Building a Case by Lisa Wood, SPARK, June 2009
In this article, Lisa Wood discusses how smart meters and dynamic rate structures work as complementary solutions to decrease peak load. Five IEE member programs are profiled and summarized.
- EE at Work: Selling Energy Efficiency as a Resource by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, May 2009
PJM recently became the second in dependant system operator, after ISO New England, to include energy efficiency in their forward capacity market. Download the article to learn more about their innovative approaches to treating EE as a resource.
- Making the Business of Energy Efficiency both Scalable and Sustainable by Lisa Wood & Roland Risser, The Brookings Institution, April 2009
IEE Executive Director, Lisa Wood, and Director of Customer Energy Efficiency for PG&E, Roland Risser, discuss the potential savings from energy efficiency and explain the importance of employing new business models to make it a scalable and sustainable resource.
- EE at Work: A Good Framework is the First Step by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, March 2009
In March 2007, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission authorized Idaho Power's three-year decoupling pilot along with a complementary incentive program. This article examines the unforeseen challenges of that program and the lessons learned.
- EE at Work: Consumer Electronics in California by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, January 2009
As the average number of consumer electronics per household continues to climb, Pacific Gas & Electric is working with manufacturers and retailers to create a better standard for new gadgets. Lisa Wood describes the "Save More" program in the January/February 2009 edition of Electric Perspectives.
- EE at Work: KCPL and the Sierra Club by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, November 2008
How might energy efficiency play a role in the construction of fossil-fuel fired plants? IEE Executive Director Lisa Wood discusses the recent collaboration between Kansas City Power & Light and The Sierra Club in the November edition of Electric Perspectives.
- EE at Work: BGE Beats the Heat by Lisa Wood, Electric Perspectives, October 2008
In this column, Executive Director Lisa Wood discusses the pricing pilot program design and findings from BGE’s smart energy pricing pilot completed during summer 2008.
- Time to Save: Business Models for Efficiency by Lisa Wood, EnergyBiz Magazine, September 2008
In this short policy piece, Executive Director Lisa Wood discusses different business models that aim to make energy efficiency a scalable and sustainable business for electric utilities.
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