Energy Efficiency: Will a Just Do It Approach Get it Done for the Consumer

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Energy Efficiency Will a Just Do It
Approach Get it Done for the Consumer?

• NARUC 2008 Winter Meeting
• Consumer Affairs Committee Business Meeting
• February 17, 2008

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What is Happening on the State Level?

• Some degree of energy efficiency program in all
  states
• Existing federal standards, building codes,
  appliance equipment standards
• Legally mandated energy efficiency targets in 15
  states
• Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS)
• Statewide mandates that set targets for energy
  efficiency programs run by utilities
• Often integrated with state renewable portfolio
  standards (RPS)
• Increases likelihood that energy efficiency
  programs will reach scale to reduce emissions and
  avoid capacity problems

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State EERS RPS
State RPS
Note Hawaii has both state RPS and EERS Courtesy
of American Council for an Energy-Efficient
Economy (ACEEE)
State EERS
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Dr. Peter Fox-Penner Commissioner Jimmy Ervin
Diane Munns
Elizabeth A. Noel John P.
Hughes