Going Green and Getting Regulation Right: A Primer on Energy Efficiency

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Going Green and Getting Regulation Right: A Primer on Energy Efficiency responds to the rising interest in energy efficiency and demand-side management programs by exploring the important lessons that can be learned from earlier mandated conservation efforts and will be a valuable resource for regulators, utilities, intervenors and other policy makers.

This valuable resource uses a vast database of results from utility programs throughout the nation over the past 15 years to address these matters quantitatively. These analyses are complemented with a thorough qualitative and institutional review of the differences found across the nation and over time.

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Section I: What and Why . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1: Introduction: Why This Primer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2: Utility-Sponsored Conservation and Other Social Mandates in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 3: The Role of Utilities in Conservation: Regulatory Details That Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 4: Regulating the Path to Achieve Successful Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Section II: What Has Been Happening Around the Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 5: A Review of Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency and Load Management Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 6: Relative State-by-State Comparisons Over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Chapter 7: Benchmarking Effort and Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Section III: Regulating Energy Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 8: An Overview of Energy Efficiency Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 9: The Economics of Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency When There are Externalities . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 10: External Benefits and Energy Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 11: Some Quantitative Evidence to Analyze External Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 12: Combining Data and Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Section IV: The Cost of Energy Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 13: The Cost of Energy Efficiency and Load Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 14: The Per Unit Costs of Energy Efficiency and Load Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Chapter 15: The Per Unit Cost of Load Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Chapter 16: How Regulation Affects the Costs That Customers Pay for Demand-Side Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Chapter 17: Cost-of-Service Regulation and Demand-Side Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Chapter 18: Why Cost-of-Service Regulation May be Given Too Much Current Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Section V: Testing the Theory That Incentives Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Chapter 19: California Shows Mandates and Rate Riders Work:
A Brief History of California’s Energy Efficiency Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Chapter 20: Mixing Mandates and Incentives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Chapter 21: How States Are Decoupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Chapter 22: Direct Financial Incentives for Demand Response Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Chapter 23: Testing the Statistical Significance of Regulatory Incentives for Energy Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Chapter 24: The Statistical Significance of Incentives for Regulatory Policy Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Section VI: The Path Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Chapter 25: Save-a-Watt: A New Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Chapter 26: Renewables and Energy Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Chapter 27: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

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by Charles J. Cicchetti

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