The Treatment of Energy Efficiency in Integrated Resource Plans

The Treatment of Energy Efficiency in Integrated Resource Plans
Author: Dave Lamont (Energy policy analyst)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2013
Genre: Electric power consumption
ISBN:

"The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interrelationship between a state's treatment of energy efficiency and its Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process ... In the preparation of this paper, we reviewed energy efficiency and IRP practices in utilities from Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Ohio, and Oregon"--Pages 3-5.

Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 1994-02
Genre:
ISBN: 078810442X

Examines the prospects for advancing U.S. energy efficiency through technology improvements and regulatory changes in the utility sector and related Federal and State initiatives. Photos, charts and tables.

Integrated Electricity Resource Planning

Integrated Electricity Resource Planning
Author: A. de Almeida
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9401110549

Since the mid-seventies, electric utilities were faced with escalating construction costs, growing environmental plus siting constraints and increasing uncertainty in demand forecasting. To cope with the increasing demand for energy services, utilities can either invest in supply-side options (new generation, transmission and distribution facilities) or in demand-side options. Demand-side options include, policies, programmes, innovative pricing schemes and high-efficiency end-use equipment (equipment providing the same or better level of services but using less energy or peak power). Recent experience in both North America and Europe show that demand-side options are usually cheaper and less damaging from the environmental point of view, and also their potential can be tapped in a shorter term than other supply-side options. This workshop was directed at the discussion and analysis of cost-effective methodologies to achieve the supply of electric energy services at minimum cost and minimum environmental impact. The programme included new developments in power planning models which can integrate both supply-side and demand-side actions. Quantitative assessments of the environmental impact of different supply-demand strategies were analyzed. Planning models which deal with uncertainty and use multicriteria approaches were presented. Case studies and experiments with, innovative concepts carried out by utilities in several countries were discussed. Load modelling and evaluation of demad-side programmes was analyzed. Additionally, the potential for electricity savings in the industrial, commercial and residential sectors was presented. New research directions covering planning models, programmes and end-use technologies were identified.

Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1993
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

The Future of Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs in the United States

The Future of Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs in the United States
Author: Ernest Orlando Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2014-11-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781503217263

We develop projections of future spending on, and savings from, energy efficiency programs funded by electric and gas utility customers in the United States, under three scenarios through 2025. Our analysis, which updates a previous LBNL study, relies on detailed bottom-up modeling of current state energy efficiency policies, regulatory decisions, and demand-side management and utility resource plans. The three scenarios are intended to represent a range of potential outcomes under the current policy environment (i.e., without considering possible major new policy developments).Key findings from the analysis are as follows:* By 2025, spending on electric and gas efficiency programs (excluding load management programs) is projected to double from 2010 levels to $9.5 billion in the medium case, compared to $15.6 billion in the high case and $6.5 billion in the low case.* Compliance with statewide legislative or regulatory savings or spending targets is the primary driver for the increase in electric program spending through 2025, though a significant share of the increase is also driven by utility DSM planning activity and integrated resource planning.* Our analysis suggests that electric efficiency program spending may approach a more even geographic distribution over time in terms of absolute dollars spent, with the Northeastern and Western states declining from over 70% of total U.S. spending in 2010 to slightly more than 50% in 2025, and the South and Midwest splitting the remainder roughly evenly.* Under our medium case scenario, annual incremental savings from customer-funded electric energy efficiency programs increase from 18.4 TWh in 2010 in the U.S. (which is about 0.5% of electric utility retail sales) to 28.8 TWh in 2025 (0.8% of retail sales).* These savings would offset the majority of load growth in the Energy Information Administration's most recent reference case forecast of retail electricity sales through 2025, given specific assumptions about the extent to which future energy efficiency program savings are captured in that forecast.* The pathway that customer-funded efficiency programs ultimately take will depend on a series of key challenges and uncertainties associated both with the broader market and policy context and with the implementation and regulatory oversight of the energy efficiency programs themselves.