Findings from CEEs Research into Impact Terminology Advancing Consistency in Terminology

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Findings from CEEs Research into Impact
Terminology- Advancing Consistency in Terminology

• Johanna Krouk, CEE
• Monica Nevius, CEE
• January 17, 2008
• CEE Program Meeting, Long Beach, CA

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Purpose

• Identify common terms and definitions among the
  CEE membership
• Provide the big picture of what CEE members are
  reporting and understand what were dealing with
  as an industry

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Research Design Response Rate

• Telephone interview with CEE Members
• 68 of CEE Members with Electric Programs
  Interviewed
• 22 out of 26 states that reported impacts
• 2 out of 2 provinces that reported impacts
• CEE Members, including these types of
  organizations
• Program Administrators (IOUs, munis/coops, state
  entities)
• State regulators

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The Questions

• Does your organization report to EIA?
• Does your organization report savings impacts to
  regulators? If you dont report impacts to
  regulators, to whom do you report them? What
  impacts does your organization report to each?
• How does what your organization reports track
  with the EIA data categories? (incremental vs.
  annual). Does your organization use the same
  terms with the same meaning as EIA or some other
  terminology?

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EIA Definition Incremental

• Incremental Effects The changes in energy use
  (measured in megawatthours) and peak load
  (measured in megawatts) caused in the current
  reporting year by new participants in your
  existing DSM programs and all participants in
  your new DSM programs. Reported Incremental
  Effects should be annualized to indicate the
  program effects that would have occurred had
  these participants been initiated into the
  program on January 1 of the current reporting
  year.

Source EIA. http//www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electric
ity/forms/eia861/eia861instr.pdf
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Results EIA Incremental

• First year MWh Savings
• First year of programs
• Incremental annual
• Incremental but not annualized
• Installed savings for 2006

• Terms Used
• Annual
• Incremental
• Annual incremental
• Annualized MWh Savings
• Calendar year reported savings
• First year savings

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Results EIA Incremental

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Definition EIA Annual

• Annual Effects The total changes in energy use
  (measured in megawatthours) and peak load
  (measured in megawatts) caused in the current
  reporting year by all participants in all of your
  DSM programs. This includes new and existing
  participants in existing programs (those
  implemented prior to the current reporting year
  that were in place during prior reporting year),
  all participants in new programs (those
  implemented during current reporting year), and
  participants in programs terminated since 1992
  (those effects continue even though the programs
  have been discontinued). DSM programs have a
  useful life, and the net effects of these
  programs will diminish over time. To the extent
  possible, the Annual Effects should consider the
  useful life of efficiency and load control
  measures by accounting for building demolition,
  equipment degradation, and program attrition. The
  effects of new participants in existing programs
  and all participants in new programs should be
  based on their start-up dates (i.e., if
  participants enter a program in July, only the
  effects from July to December are to be
  reported). If start-up dates are unknown and
  cannot be reasonably estimated, the effects can
  be annualized (i.e., assume the participants were
  initiated into the program on January 1). Please
  note that Annual Effects are not a summation of
  12 monthly peaks, but are the total DSM program
  effects of all programs and all participants for
  the current reporting year.

Source EIA. http//www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electric
ity/forms/eia861/eia861instr.pdf
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Illustration EIA Annual
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Results EIA Annual

• Cumulative Installed Efficiency
• MWh Savings in year
• Net Market Effects
• Only track for EIA

• Terms Used
• Cumulative
• Annual
• Actual annual savings
• Conservation History
• Cumulative Annual

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Results EIA Annual
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Other Definitions

• The NAPEE Model Energy Efficiency Program Impact
  Evaluation Guide DOE Impact Evaluation
  Framework for Technology Deployment Programs do
  not address these definitions in glossaries

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Other Terms Lifetime savings

• Some examples
• Lifetime Savings (1) first year savings
  multiplied by a weighted average lifetime
  measure. (2) the savings to be accrued over the
  expected life of a measure installed or committed
  to during the program year
• Cumulative Lifetime Savings the savings that
  will accrue during the expected life of all
  measures installed or committed to during the
  current and all previous program years.

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Summary

• The data show for EIA incremental that annual
  is the most common and would be the most logical
  term to use because over ½ of respondents use it.
  
• The data show for EIA annual that annual is the
  most common, when it is reported, followed by
  cumulative.

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Discussion

• Do the data suggest a critical mass behind
  certain terms? Implications of getting behind
  certain terms?
• Where we can all get behind certain terms
  definitions, how do we get traction both within
  and outside the membership? And with regulators
  and other stakeholders?
• If time, begin to tackle other terms, as well as
  the question of, how much time is this likely to
  take, and how do we bound it to develop realistic
  goals and make it most useful to members?
• What are the next steps? 

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• Contact Information
• Johanna Krouk
• Consortium for Energy Efficiency
• jkrouk_at_cee1.org
• 617-589-3949 x233
• Monica Nevius
• Consortium for Energy Efficiency
• mnevius_at_cee1.org
• 617-589-3949 x227