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Lowering costs
through resource pooling between Load
Serving Entities
Nils E. Tellier, P.E.;
Robertson-Bryan, Inc. |
Pooling resources
between Load Serving Entities can result in
substantial operations savings: Increased
availability of energy resources from
take-or-pay contracts; Smoother total load
envelope and better control of scheduling
imbalance; Transition from retail to
wholesale position; and Accessibility to
larger resources such as generation and
long-term contracts. Includes a concrete
example of a California POU doing energy
resource pooling
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Savings That Add Up!
Kristen Smith, Resource Action
Programs |
Resource Action
Programs’ result driven school-based
Programs provide an increased awareness of
residential water use and energy efficiency,
while offering practical lessons and tools
to lower monthly utility bills for
residential customers. A family
participating in the LivingWise Program will
save on average 9,000 gallons of water, 330
kWh of electricity, and 40 therms of gas per
year by retrofitting their home with the
devices provided as part of the Program.
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Empowering Customers
with Easy$avings
Kristen Smith, Resource Action
Programs |
Resource Action
Program’s money-saving adult educational
Program offers tools to teach responsible,
efficient, and sensible water and energy use
practices in the home. These measures reduce
financial expenditures on monthly utility
bills, leaving fewer customers relying on
bill-paying assistance and subsidized energy
usage. Based on feedback from participating
households in Iowa, South Carolina, and New
Mexico utility bill savings are projected to
range from $100 to $500 per year.
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Your Website is Your
Most valuable Employee!
Tom DuBos, Apogee Interactive |
Are you getting the
most out of your website? See examples of
how utilities like Westar and United Power
are using their website to promote and drive
participation in their energy efficiency
programs. Learn how to avoid the trap of
websites that are internally focused, versus
serving your customers.
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Reaching
Time-Constrained Small Business Customers
Ed Carroll, Franklin Energy Services
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In order to increase
energy efficiency program participation in
the small commercial market (400 kW or
less), Xcel Energy is providing a lighting
program that includes on-site audits and
assistance with incentives and contractor
facilitation. Audit data is collected
electronically on PDAs, and reports with
savings opportunities and incentives are
delivered on-site/via e-mail to the
customer. The overarching objective is to
make it quick and easy for a customer to
implement a lighting project. A critical
component includes proactive customer
assistance to collect bids – via a network
of pre-qualified lighting allies -- through
project completion and incentive paperwork
submittal.
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Action-oriented
Conservation at United Power
Tom Potter, Southwest Energy
Efficiency Project |
United Power’s
early-October “Energy Expo 2009” featured
SWEEP’s 4-hour CEDAR Workshop (Conservation
> Efficiency > Demand > Ancillary >
Renewables). This poster highlights
content/skills sessions and follow-up Member
goals: 1) saving 25% with
“low-cost/no-cost;” 2) defining investments
to save 25% more; 3) dropping peak demand;
and 4) assessing five renewables.
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CityCarbon.com
Val Leitner, International Carbon
Bank and Exchange (ICBE)
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A geospatial and
building performance platform with a social
awareness component - is eligible for the
U.S. Department of Energy's Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants.
GainesvilleGreen.com is the version
sponsored by Gainesville Regional Utilities
and can easily become a part of any
utility’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation
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Energy Services’
Equipment Loan Program Presents:
The Great Refrigerator Robbery
Kevon Storie, Western Area Power
Administration
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Appliances account for
about 17 percent of household energy
consumption, and refrigerators are among the
top three users. Using tools Western Area
Power Administration customers can borrow
from the Equipment Loan Program, we
investigate three refrigerators and discover
that one of them is stealing its owner
blind.
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Gary The Energy Guy
Gary R. Myers, Poudre Valley Rural
Electric Association |
This “poster” would
focus on a successful member education
program, which includes establishing an
identifiable contact – “Gary the Energy Guy”
– who is ready to address member energy use
concerns; practical use of quality auditing
options/techniques (infrared, blower door,
common-sense approaches, etc.); and
follow-up efforts that identify successes
and provide insight.
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Excess is Out Joint
Rebate Administration
Bruce Matulich, EGIA |
Rather than go it
alone, 4 natural gas utilities serving
Colorado jointly plan and manage the "Excess
is out" marketing campaign which includes an
innovative rebate processing approach.
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Golf Courses Need
Efficiency Programs, too
Andrew Staples, Golf Resource Group
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Utility program and
research has identified high-impact
opportunities via retro-commissioning of
golf course irrigation central control
systems, irrigation pump staging and
clubhouse cart charging that significantly
reduces kWh consumption and kW demand. All
results have been packaged in order to
present energy reductions, carbon footprint
reductions and total costs savings.
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Green Switch
Andy Gillis, ENERGYWISE |
Innovative energy
savings products (KVAR and Green Switch)
that Aspen City Utilities is testing on some
pumps and motor drives. |
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