 What Was the Energy Efficiency as a Resource Conference?
Energy efficiency is hot! Energy efficiency's importance as a utility resource has never been greater than it is now. The industry faces soaring power plant construction costs, high and volatile fuel costs, growing concerns about system reliability, and increasing calls for action to address global warming.
Numerous states have established aggressive new energy savings goals, pushing programs to achieve higher and higher savings. With these new requirements and goals come a variety of new challenges.
ACEEE’s 5th National Conference on Energy Efficiency as a Resource brought together industry leaders once again to discuss the latest developments in the use of energy efficiency as a key resource for meeting customer and utility system needs and for addressing other critical economic and environmental objectives
ACEEE held previous conferences on Energy Efficiency as a Resource in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007.
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What Topics Were on the Program?
Topics included:
- Meeting aggressive resource goals for energy efficiency
- State and regional examples or case studies
- Strategies and program plans for meeting higher goals
- Natural gas energy efficiency
- Regulatory mechanisms to encourage utility energy efficiency programs
- Documented experience with decoupling and/or shareholder incentives
- New examples of policy implementation
- Measuring the energy efficiency resource
- Documented savings and cost-effectiveness results
- Energy efficiency potential studies
- Calculating the economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency (including “jobs” impacts)
- Integrated resource planning and system operation
- Integrating energy efficiency into utility resource portfolios
- Municipal and public utility sector energy efficiency
- Energy efficiency and system reliability
- How energy efficiency can solidify energy reliability
- How energy efficiency can be integrated with demand response strategies
- Emerging new market roles for energy efficiency (e.g., forward capacity markets)
- Energy efficiency and the environment
- Energy efficiency, greenhouse gases and global warming
- Energy efficiency in state environmental planning and compliance
- Federal initiatives in utility sector energy efficiency
- Federal energy legislation, such as a federal energy efficiency resource standard (EERS)
- The economic stimulus package and its role in advancing energy efficiency as a resource
- International case studies of energy efficiency as a resource
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the agenda.
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Who Funded the Conference?
Gold:
ComEd
IL Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
NYSERDA
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Southern California Edison
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
We Energies
Xcel Energy
Silver:
AmerenUE
Ameren Illinois Utilities
National Grid
Sacramento
Municipal Utility District
Bronze:
Bonneville Power Administration
ICF International
Itron
Johnson Controls
PECI
Rockwell Automation
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