Reform Energy Efficiency Cost-Effectiveness Tests: The Time to Act is NOW

Moderator:
Jennifer Amann – Building Program Director, ACEEE

Presenters:
Dr. Bob Knight – CEO, BKi
Tim Woolf – former commissioner, Vice President, Synapse Energy Economics, lead author: “Best Practices in Energy Efficiency Program Screening: How to Ensure that the Value of Energy Efficiency is Properly Accounted For”
Kara Saul-Rinaldi – Executive Director, National Home Performance Council

Who should attend: Utility managers, DSM staff, regulators, HPwES partners, participants in the Better Building Challenge.
Co-sponsors: ACEEE, BKi, NHPC

Energy Efficiency Cost-Effectiveness Test Reform: The Time to Act is NOW

Is residential efficiency cost effective? How do you measure non-energy benefits? How can states hit EERS without residential? What are the long-term impacts of the Total Resource Cost (TRC) on the future of the Better Buildings Program and Home Performance with Energy Star programs?

This Webinar seeks to answer these questions and give you clear action steps forward. As your state faces energy challenges going forward, how will it calculate the cost-effectiveness of energy efficiency programs and how will it impact your programs?

Utility cost-effectiveness testing is an important way to determine if the benefits of a program outweigh its costs. But most states don’t use a complete range of best practices that fully accounts for the value of energy efficiency. This leads to incomplete and inaccurate test results. As a result, valuable energy efficiency programsundefinedones that would provide the most consumers savings and societal benefitsundefinednever see the light of day.

In this webinar, three experts in energy efficiency research and home upgrade program design and implementation share their findings and recommendations to make a sea change in TRC testing and protocols.