Cpuc energy efficiency policy manual

The CPUC regulates ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs. The CPUC works with the investor-owned utilities, other program administrators, and vendors to develop programs and measures to transform technology markets within California using ratepayer funds. If you have been contacted by a CPUC evaluation contractor and wish to verify that the request is legitimate, click this link.

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Cream skimming is inappropriate when lost opportunities are created in the process. Customer Information: Non-public information and data specific to a Utility Customer which the utility acquired or developed in the course of its provision of Utility Services.

Demand Responsiveness: See also, Load Management. Also sometimes referred to as load shifting. Activities or equipment that induce consumers to use energy at different lower cost times of day or to interrupt energy use for certain equipment temporarily, usually in direct response to a price signal.

Examples: interruptible rates, doing laundry after 7 p. Demand Side or Demand Side Management DSM : Programs that reduce the use of energy by the use of energy efficiency products, services, and practices, or that change the timing of energy use.

Distributed Generation: Small-scale electric generating technologies installed at or near an end-user's location. May also be referred to as "distributed energy resources" or "distributed resources.

Double-dipping: Taking advantage of multiple financial incentives offered by multiple programs for undertaking only one activity. Public goods covered by California's electric PGC include public purpose energy efficiency programs, low-income services, renewables, and energy-related research and development. This manual applies only to energy efficiency PGC funds. Energy Efficiency: The use of high-efficiency products, services, and practices or an energy-using appliance or piece of equipment, to reduce energy usage while maintaining a comparable level of service when installed or applied on the Customer side of the meter.

Energy efficiency activities typically require permanent replacement of energy-using equipment with more efficient models. Examples: refrigerator replacement, light fixture replacement, cooling equipment upgrades. Energy Efficiency Measure: Any product, service, or practice or an energy-using appliance or piece of equipment that will result in reduced energy usage at a comparable level of service when installed on the Customer side of the meter.

Energy Management Services: Programs intended to provide customer assistance in the form of information on the relative costs and benefits to the customer of installing measures or adopting practices which can reduce the customer's utility bills. Evaluation: The performance of studies and activities aimed at determining the effects of a program, including program-induced changes in energy efficiency markets, energy savings, and program cost-effectiveness.

Gas Public Goods Charge: Created by AB in , an unbundled rate component included on gas customer bills to fund public purpose programs including energy efficiency, low-income and research and development. This policy manual applies only to the energy efficiency portions of the gas PGC. Used in discussing replacement of inefficient equipment with high-efficiency equipment. Implementer: An entity or person selected and contracted with or qualified by a program administrator or by the Commission to receive PGC funds for providing products and services to Customers.

Incentives: Financial support e. Information Programs: Programs intended to provide customers with information regarding generic not customer-specific conservation and energy efficiency opportunities. For these programs, the information may be unsolicited by the customer.

Programs that provide incentives in the form of unsolicited coupons for discount on low cost measures are also included. Load Management: Sometimes referred to as load shifting. Activities or equipment that induce consumers to use energy at different lower cost times of day or to interrupt energy use for certain equipment temporarily.

Local Program: A program that provides services to customers in only one jurisdiction of the state e. Local programs may be experimental and are designed to serve the needs of a particular geographic area.

Lost Opportunities: Energy efficiency measures that offer long-lived, cost-effective savings that are fleeting in nature. A lost opportunity occurs when a customer does not install an energy efficiency measure that is cost-effective at the time, but whose installation is unlikely to be cost-effective or is less cost-effective later. This CET tab will only be visible once you've registered and logged in.

The following document is a PDF of a training designed specifically for Community CET users, such as third-party Implementers and PA non-reporting staff, to learn about the CET including how to prepare input files, interface with the tool, and interpret results:. Implementers may design programs that use one or more of these four platforms: Deemed, Custom, Meter-Based and Financing. This decision is called for third-party approaches to a limited integration of demand response DR lighting and HVAC controls in small, medium, and large commercial buildings, as well as DR for HVAC controls in residences, the latter specifically to support the residential transition to time-of-use rates.

The presentation of this event along with the recording of the event is available below. Energy Efficiency Third Party Solicitations. Choose View. Active and upcoming solicitations Program Description Website. Closed solicitations Program Description Website.