CFL Recycling Program

Presented by:Richard Bacon, Energy Programs Division

Efficiency Maine

Efficiency Maine Program Umbrella

Our overall program includes the following programs:

• Business Program (for small and large businesses)

• Residential Program (for lighting and appliances)

• Low Income Program

• Maine High Performance Schools Program (New School Construction)

• Education Program

• Solar Program

Energy Efficient Home Lighting Where we are today

Residential Lighting Program:

• Encourages consumers to switch to CFL light bulbs

• POP rebates on CFL products and fixtures at 300 plus retail outlets

• More than 3 million CFLs moved in 6 years

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Energy Efficient Home Lighting How we came into being.

• Energy Conservation Act directs the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) to develop and, to the extent of available funds, implement energy conservation programs in April 2002.

• MPUC creates Efficiency Maine- A statewide effort to promote the more efficient use of electricity, help Maine residents and businesses reduce energy costs, and improve Maine's environment. Legislature transfers responsibility for State Energy Program to MPUC in April 2003.

• Maine’s “Act to Strengthen Energy Conservation” articulated multiple reasons for increasing Maine’s energy efficiency, among them:

– Reducing energy costs

– Economic development

– Improving the environment

– Low Income Customers

Energy Efficient Home Lighting Program Funding

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

• 65-407

• Chapter 380: ELECTRIC ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

• Program fund. “Program fund" means the conservation program fund established by the Commission pursuant to 35-A M.R.S.A. § 3211‑A(5).

• 2. Program costs. Program costs will include the following:

• a) Direct program costs, including program design, administration, implementation, marketing, evaluation and other reasonably identifiable costs directly associated with the program.

• b) Measure costs. For new construction or replacement programs, measure costs are the incremental costs of the energy efficiency measure, including installation, over an equivalent baseline measure. For retrofit programs, measure costs are the full cost of the energy efficiency measure, including installation, less any salvage for the replaced measure.

• c) Ongoing customer costs, including costs such as increased operation and maintenance costs, reduced productivity, and lost economic development opportunities, to the extent such costs can be reasonably quantified and valued.

Energy Efficient Home Lighting Program Funding

§ 4 COST EFFECTIVENESS TESTSThe following tests will be used to determine whether a program is cost effective.

A. Modified Societal Test. Programs that are reasonably likely to satisfy the Modified Societal Test are cost effective. The Modified Societal Test is satisfied when the program benefits exceed the program costs. Costs and benefits shall be considered in the Modified Societal Test regardless of whether they are paid or experienced by the participant, the Conservation Program Fund, or any other individual, business, or government agency.

B. Program costs. Program costs will include the following:

a) Direct program costs, including program design, administration, implementation, marketing, evaluation and other reasonably identifiable costs directly associated with the program.

b) Measure costs. For new construction or replacement programs, measure costs are the incremental costs of the energy efficiency measure, including installation, over an equivalent baseline measure. For retrofit programs, measure costs are the full cost of the energy efficiency measure, including installation, less any salvage for the replaced measure. c) Ongoing customer costs, including costs such as increased operation and maintenance costs, reduced productivity, and lost economic development opportunities, to the extent such costs can be reasonably quantified and valued.

Energy Efficient Home Lighting Program Funding

 § 5 FUNDING LEVELThe Commission shall assess transmission and distribution utilities to collect funds

necessary to pay for the Commission’s portfolio of conservation programs and administrative costs associated with implementing the conservation programs.

A. Assessment Amount. The amount of all assessments for conservation programs and administrative costs must result in total conservation expenditures by each transmission and distribution utility that:

1. are based on the relevant characteristics of the transmission and distribution utility’s service territory, including the needs of customers; 2. do not exceed 0.15 cents per kilowatt hour; 3. are no less than 0.5% of the total transmission and distribution revenue of the transmission and distribution utility; and 4. are proportionally equivalent to the total conservation expenditures of other transmission and distribution utilities, unless the Commission finds that a different amount is justified; however, any increase in the assessment of a transmission and distribution utility must be based on reasons other than to achieve proportional equivalence.

Energy Efficient Home Lighting

If you would like to see the complete ruling you can find it on the web at http://maine.gov/mpuc/doing_business/rules/380.doc

If you have additional questions please contact me @

Richard Bacon CEM, CLEP, BEPProgram Manager, Efficiency MaineMaine Public Utilities Commissionphone: 207-287-8349email: Richard.Bacon@maine.gov

Web: http://www.efficiencymaine.com