Statewide LG EE Best Practices: Weekly Update
For those of you who know who Joseph Oldham is you likely are on his email distribution list and receive this update each week. We are grateful that Joseph has agreed to allow our little blog to re-post his weekly update. If you have an interest in the happenings of energy efficiency and local government throughout California this is the update for you! If you love the information here, but want more in depth features be sure to check out Joseph's quarterly newsletter, CURRENTS.
1. LGP Value and Effectiveness Survey Launched
Opinion
Dynamics has been retained by the California Public Utilities Commission to
assess the value and effectiveness of LGPs, particularly in terms of
achieving the State of California’s Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan
goals. Feedback from local governments is extremely important to the study.
If
your organization is a part of an LGP – either as an implementer, a member
government, or a local government that received funding for Strategic Plan
projects - a staff person at your organization may have received this
invitation to complete the survey during the week of April 20th.
The subject line for this invitation is “Local Government Partnerships Value
& Effectiveness Survey Invitation.”
If you have received an invitation, please complete the survey. As a reminder,
responses to this survey will be kept anonymous and the identities of
respondents will not be revealed to any organization other than Opinion
Dynamics. Should you have any questions, please contact Alan Elliott at alanelliott1@opiniondynamics.com
2. R.13-11-005 Workshop on Energy Efficiency Baselines
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) staff will be
holding a Workshop on Energy Efficiency Baselines on April 28, 2015, from 9:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the CPUC Auditorium (505 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco,
CA, 94102). Agenda, call in information, and request for comments are
forthcoming.
In D.14-10-046, the Public Utilities Commission directed staff
to work with the Energy Commission to increase awareness of how energy
efficiency baselines are applied in relation to the volume of deferred
retrofits and the ability of program administrators to target and accelerate
such upgrades cost-effectively, which were identified in the utilities' 2015
funding requests.
Topics at the April 28 workshop will cover:
(1) The
policy framework that establishes energy efficiency baselines;
(2) Input
from energy efficiency stakeholders;
(3) The treatment of to-code and above codes
savings for procurement planning;
(4) The
scope of CPUC/CEC/Navigant's Existing Baseline Analysis; and
(5) The
status of IOU pilots into alternative baselines.
The CPUC must accurately measure savings from energy efficiency
in order to forecast energy savings to inform energy procurement planning, with
the goal of avoiding construction of new non-renewable power plants. The CPUC
has determined that in most cases, the appropriate baseline is set as the
current code or standard applicable to that equipment, as equipment will
naturally be upgraded to the code or standard level when it is replaced. The
CPUC currently allows exceptions to this policy, such as when the IOU program
is shown to influence the "early retirement" of functioning, yet
inefficient equipment. However, some stakeholders argue that the existing
condition should be the norm, not the exception.
The CPUC, Energy Commission, and Navigant are preparing an
Energy Efficiency Baseline Analysis is to examine the appropriateness of using
the code or existing conditions baseline as the default baseline to estimate
energy efficiency program savings for different types of measures, and the
implications for future Title 20 and 24 updates, the demand forecast, and
ratepayers.
For questions, please contact Dina Mackin
at 415-703-2125 or Dina.Mackin@cpuc.ca.gov.
3. Lead
Commissioner Workshop on Strategies Related to Benchmarking and Local
Government Challenge in the Draft Existing Buildings Energy Efficiency Action
Plan
The California Energy Commission Lead
Commissioner for the 2015 Integrated Energy Policy Report (2015IEPR) will
conduct a workshop on strategies related to Benchmarking and Local Government
Challenge in the draft Existing Buildings Energy Efficiency Action Plan.
Commissioner Andrew McAllister is the Lead
Commissioner. Other Commissioners from the Energy Commission and California
Public Utilities Commission may also attend or participate in the workshop.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
9:00 a.m.
CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION
1516 Ninth Street
First Floor, Art Rosenfeld Hearing Room
Sacramento, California
(Wheelchair Accessible)
Remote Access Available by Computer or
Phone via WebEx
Presentations and audio from the meeting
will be broadcast via our WebEx web meeting service. For additional details on
how to participate via WebEx, please see the notice at: https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=15-IEPR-05
Computer Log on with a Direct Phone Number:
- Please go to https://energy.webex.com
and enter the unique meeting number
926 752 573
- When prompted, enter your information and
the following meeting password meeting@9 . (Please note that password is case
sensitive.)
For more information:
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work, please copy entire link into your web browser's URL)
And that is all for
this week!