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SEE Action Update NASEO Northeast Regional Meeting

Mike Li, Staff Lead Customer Information and Behavior Working Group

May 30, 2013

www.seeaction.energy.gov

About SEE Action

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• Network of 200+ leaders and professionals, led by state and local policymakers, bringing energy efficiency to scale

• Support on energy efficiency policy decision making for:

• Air and energy office directors, and others • Utility regulators, utilities and consumer advocates • Legislators, governors, mayors, county officials

• Facilitated by DOE and EPA; successor to the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency

The SEE Action Network is active in the largest areas of challenge and opportunity

to advance energy efficiency


Offers investment-grade decision support for state and local policy makers.

Provides solution pathways through market and policy barriers to greater investment in cost-effective energy efficiency.

• Guidance Documents • Trainings • Peer-to-peer dialogue • Technical Assistance

What SEE Action Does

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Goal: All cost-effective energy efficiency by 2020


SEO Participation in SEE Action

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Lisa Schwartz (OR), Co-chair

Jeff Genzer (Staff)

Todd Currier (WA) Co-chair, John Ballam (MA), Brian Platt (NY), Julia Friedman (Staff)

Frank Murray, NY (Co-chair), Walt Auburn (MD), Karen Hamilton (NY)

Birud Jhivari (MA), Jeff Pitkin (NY), David Terry (Staff)

Dan Bresette (MD), Ruth Horton (NY), Janet Streff (MN), Sandy Fazeli (Staff)

Mark Sylvia (MA) Co-chair, Jennifer Meissner (NY), Monica Rudman (CA), Julia Friedman (Staff)

This group is currently dormant


• Working groups are: – Led by co-chairs (a state or local government representative) – Staffed by staff leads (DOE/EPA subject matter experts) – Driven by members (from government, industry, non-profits, etc.)

How Does a Working Group Function?

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Plan resources

and activities

Execute Plan Do outreach and engage

policymakers

• Working Groups continually cycle – approx. every 6-12 months – through work planning, execution, and outreach.

• Each cycle builds on previous work and responds to the needs of state and local decision makers and the changing market/policy landscape.

• Working Groups meet (via phone) as needed


Working Group Membership Example: Existing Commercial Buildings

Co-Chairs Eric Coffman Montgomery County, Maryland Jim Gallagher NYS SmartGrid Consortium Federal Facilitators Amy Jiron US DOE Tracy Narel US EPA

State, Local, and Regional Organizations Glen Andersen National Conference of State Legislatures Dan Bressette Maryland Energy Administration Alex Dews City of Philadelphia, PA Sandy Fazeli National Association of State Energy Officials Matt Gray City of Cleveland, OH Brian Holland ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Barry Hooper City & County of San Francisco, California Ruth Horton New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Miles Keogh National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Kevin McCarty U.S. Conference of Mayors Janet Streff Minnesota Department of Commerce Elizabeth Vasatka City of Boulder, CO NGOs Jim Barrett Applied Solutions Lane Burt U.S. Green Building Council Jennifer Amann American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Sean Denniston New Buildings Institute Jason Erwin Consortium for Energy Efficiency Jeff Harris Alliance to Save Energy Martha Hewett Center for Energy and Environment Doug Lewin The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource Cliff Majersik Institute for Market Transformation Scott Morris Buildings Owners and Managers Association Elizabeth Noll American Gas Association Eric Oliver Association of Energy Engineers Carolyn Sarno Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships Program Administrators / Utilities Marissa Barrera Southern California Edison Jared Lawrence Duke Energy David Pospisil Consolidated Edison Private Sector Companies Dan Probst Jones Lang LaSalle Alecia Ward The Weidt Group


Publications

• A Utility Regulator’s Guide to Data Access for Commercial Building Energy Performance Benchmarking – Offers policy options for state utility commissions in providing energy use data access to help commercial customers increase energy and cost savings through building energy performance benchmarking.

• Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide - The key efficiency evaluation, measurement, and verification resource for novices and experts. Includes definitions, concepts, and steps for calculating savings, avoided emissions, and other impacts.

• Guide to the Successful Implementation of State CHP Policies - informs state utility regulators and other policymakers with actionable information to assist them in implementing key state CHP policies.

• A Regulator’s Guide to Third-Party Data Access for Energy Efficiency - Summarizes approaches taken by states on privacy and security issues related to third-party access to customer data and provides guidance on policy options for providing access to customer data.

Convenings • Midwest Regional Regulatory Policy Exercise • IEE/CHP Regional Dialogue Meetings in the MW, NE/MA and SE

Recent Accomplishments

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New! Guide to the Successful Implementation of State CHP Policies

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Actionable information for state policy makers on policy design and implementation:

• Design of standby rates • Interconnection standards for CHP

with no electricity export • Excess power sales • Clean energy portfolio standards • Emerging market opportunities:

o CHP in critical infrastructure and o Utility participation in CHP

markets


• Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide – The go-go guide for novices and experts, updated from NAPEE – Defines a systematic evaluation planning and implementation

process – Describes several standard approaches for determining energy and

demand savings – Provides guidance on key evaluation issues – Lists publicly available EE evaluation resources

• Uniform Methods Project: Protocols for estimating energy savings for residential and commercial energy efficiency programs and measures. 7 protocols released in April, 2013:

• Commercial lighting • Commercial lighting controls • Commercial unitary air conditioning • Residential boilers and furnaces • Residential lighting • Residential refrigerator recycling • Residential whole-house retrofits

EM&V Resources

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Publications

• A Regulator’s Guide to Data Access for Commercial Building Energy Performance Benchmarking • Roadmap for Successful Implementation of Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs • PUC Stakeholder Collaboratives: Lessons Learned • Draft Policy Model of Higher Rate of Return for Energy Efficiency and Ratepayer Benefits • Report on the benefits and limitations of “big data” for behavior-based EE program evaluation of

energy savings and measure persistence • Policy design guides on energy audits and retro-commissioning for commercial and public buildings • EM&V 2.0 thought paper – what will EM&V for energy efficiency look like in an AMI world? • “How To” briefs on EE financing – credit enhancement strategies, on-bill financing/repayment

Convenings/Other Projects

• Southeast Regional Regulatory Policy Exercise Fall 2013 (coordinating with SEARUC) • IEE/CHP Regional Dialogue Meetings in the West (June 6, Santa Fe) • Create an EE EM&V resource library on the SEE Action website

Now Under Development

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• The U.S. Department of Energy, the SEE Action Existing Commercial Buildings Working Group and the Building Owners and Managers Association are working together to deploy four, simplified 2-day pilot building Re-Tuning trainings (Re-Tuning Training). States and local government operators may apply to participate in this training at various to-be-identified locations (likely in Minneapolis) throughout the summer and fall of 2013.

– Re-tuning practices result in significant energy cost savings. This training will empower facilities personnel to identify building operational inefficiencies and implement low to no-cost corrective measures.

– The Working Group will collect data and information on the benefits of Re-Tuning techniques and create a toolkit for trainers to use in developing additional trainings in your states. The toolkit would include materials highlighting the energy savings, ease of implementation, and educational value to employees as a means of encouraging other organizations to take advantage of this training.

• The SEE Action Existing Commercial Buildings Working Group is looking for partners in state or local

high-performance leasing pilots. State/local governments can take the lead on high performance leasing in one of three ways:

– negotiate high performance leasing clauses with tenants; – require a high performance lease from landlords (check out the Australian model which was led by

governments!); – work with commercial real estate brokers, owners, utilities, lawyers and other stakeholders on outreach and

education as the benefits available to tenants and owners that use high performance leases (Boulder, CO does this through outreach to local businesses and, specifically, classes for commercial brokers).

Public Buildings – Current Opportunities

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• If you have expertise and experience to contribute for the benefit of other state and local policymakers

• If you want to join a group of thought leaders in

addressing EE market and policy barriers • If you see a gap in knowledge resources for

overcoming barriers to greater use of EE as an energy rsource, and want to help fill it

Why Get Involved with SEE Action?

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Ways to Get Involved

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Use SEE Action resources to inform decision making in

your state

Join a Working Group – the topic

you can contribute to or gain from the most

Tell NASEO or SEE Action (co-chairs,

staff leads) what your needs are that SEE Action can address

Contribute to a project if you have

expertise to share – without joining that

working group

Sign up for the SEE Action listserv


• What are your current EE priorities? How do you use SEE Action resources to support those activities?

• What resources do YOU need that SEE Action could create?

• Are there specific activities that you would like to get involved in?

• What else…?

Let’s Talk

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Mike Li Customer Information and Behavior WG Staff Lead

[email protected] (202) 287-5718

Johanna Zetterberg

SEE Action Network Coordinator [email protected]

(202) 586-8778

Thank You

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Al Skodowski Transwestern Amy Royden-Bloom NACAA Cheryl Roberto PUC of Ohio (former) Chuck Gray NARUC David Terry NASEO Debra DeHaney-Howard USCM Dian Grueneich Dian Grueneich Consulting Don Gilligan NAESCO Ed Wisniewski CEE Gene Rodrigues Southern California Edison Glen Andersen NCSL Greg Bergtold Dow Chemical Company Jared Lawrence Duke Energy Jennifer Easler IA Office of Consumer Advocate Kateri Callahan Alliance to Save Energy

Kit Kennedy Natural Resources Defense Council Larry Downes NJ Resources Len Peters Kentucky Energy & Environment Cabinet Linda Breathitt Kentucky Public Service Commission Lisa Jacobson Bus. Council for Sustainable Energy Lisa Wood Institute for Electric Efficiency Malcolm Woolf Advanced Energy Economy Mary Ann Ralls NRECA Paula Gant American Gas Association Rebecca Craft Consolidated Edison Rick Tempchin Edison Electric Institute Sandra Byrd Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. Steve Nadel ACEEE Sue Gander NGA Center for Best Practices Ursula Schryver American Public Power Association

SEE Action Leadership: Executive Group

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Dave Danielson DOE/EERE, Pat Hoffman DOE/OE, Gina McCarthy EPA/OAR


Working Group Co-Chairs Staff Leads

Residential Retrofit Susan Ackerman, OR PUC Frank Murray, NY SEO

Dale Hoffmeyer, DOE Chandler Von Schrader, EPA

Existing Commercial Buildings

Jim Gallagher, NY ISO Eric Coffman, Montgomery County MD

Amy Jiron, DOE Tracy Narel, EPA

Industrial Energy Efficiency and CHP

Todd Currier, WA SEO Joshua Epel, CO PUC

Claudia Tighe/Sandy Glatt, DOE Betsy Dutrow/Neeharika Naik-Dhungel, EPA

Evaluation, Measurement & Verification

Mark Sylvia, MA DOER [Vacant]

Carla Frisch/Joel Blaine, DOE Niko Dietsch, EPA

Financing Solutions Bryan Garcia, CT Clean Energy Fund Keith Welks, PA Treasury

Johanna Zetterberg, DOE Brian Ng, EPA

Ratepayer-Funded Efficiency

Jennifer Easler, IA Consumer Advocate [Vacant]

Katrina Pielli/Larry Mansueti, DOE Joe Bryson, EPA

Customer Information and Behavior

Lisa Schwartz, OR SEO Rebecca Wagner, NV PUC

Michael Li, DOE Stacy Angel, EPA

SEE Action Leadership: Working Groups

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