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Wyoming Utility Policies
Wyoming Public Service Commission approved six demand-side-management programs for Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) that began January 1st, 2009. Supported by the PSC, the portfolio was largely driven by resource needs identified in the utility’s IRP. These programs represent the state’s first significant energy efficiency activity. The Consortium for Energy Efficiency reports that Wyoming electric utilities budgeted $4.3 million for programs in 2010.
RMP anticipates saving 138 million KWh per year and spending about $25 million on these programs by the end of the four-year period. Energy efficiency spending will be equivalent to 1.7% of RMP's 2006 electricity sales in Wyoming. RMP is responsible for about 57% of electricity sales in Wyoming.
Aside from RMP, Cheyenne Light and Power, Black Hills Power, and Questar Gas also run limited sets of energy efficiency programs.
Reported budgets for energy efficiency programs for 2011, and electricity savings for 2010, are in the State Spending and Savings Tables.
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October 12, 2012
Wyoming Public Service Commission approved six demand-side-management programs for Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) that began January 1st, 2009. These programs represent the state’s first significant energy efficiency activity.
RMP anticipates saving 138,000 MWh per year and spending a total of about $25 million on these programs by the end of the four-year period. Energy efficiency spending will be equivalent to 1.7% of RMP's electricity sales in Wyoming in 2006. RMP is responsible for about 57% of electricity sales in Wyoming.
Reported budgets for energy efficiency programs for 2011, and electricity savings for 2010, are in the State Spending and Savings Tables.
Rocky Mountain Power's self-direct program is a project-based rate credit program that offers up to an 80% credit of eligible project costs back to customers as a rate credit against the 3.7% cost-recovery mechanism (CRM) charge all customers pay. Customers earn a credit up to 100% of their CRM charge, but do pay a flat $500/project administrative fee for each self-directed project. Customers can choose to engage in self-direct and more traditional CRM programs simultaneously, provided the different programs are used to deploy different projects. More information on large customer self-direct programs can be found in the ACEEE report, Follow the Leaders: Improving Large Customer Self-Direct Programs.
Links:
- Public Service Commission Order establishing DSM programs
- Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
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March 28, 2013
The Consortium for Energy Efficiency reports that Wyoming electric utilities budgeted $4.3 million for programs in 2010.
Reported budgets for energy efficiency programs for 2011 are in the State Spending and Savings Tables.
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October 12, 2012
There is currently no EERS in place.
For more information on Energy Efficiency Resource Standards, click here.
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March 28, 2013
A three-year pilot decoupling program was approved for Questar Gas Company in June 2009 for its General Service class of customers. The pilot began July 1, 2009 and will be adjusted annually (Docket No. 30010-94-GR-8, May 2009).
A load management tracking adjustment mechanism is in place for Montana-Dakota Utilities Company to track and recovery lost revenues associated with implementation of load management programs. (Docket No. 20004-65-ET-06. Filed on August 31, 2006)
Links:
- Questar Gas Company PSC order for Docket No. 30010-94-GR-8
- Wyoming Public Service Commission docket search
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October 12, 2012
There is currently no policy in place that rewards successful energy efficiency programs.
For more information about utility regulation and policy, click here.
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March 28, 2013
There is currently no policy in place that treats energy efficiency as a resource.
For more information on energy efficiency as a resource, click here.
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March 28, 2013
- Cost-effectiveness test(s) used: TRC, UCT, PCT,SCT, RIM
- Uses a deemed savings database: no
The evaluation of ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs in Wyoming is not required. Evaluations rely on regulatory orders specified in dockets for each utility and are mainly administered by the Wyoming Public Service Commission. Wyoming uses all of the five classic benefit-cost tests identified in the California Standard Practice Manual. These are the Total Resource Cost (TRC), Utility/Programs Administrator (UCT), Participant (PCT), Social Cost (SCT), and Ratepayer Impact Measure (RIM). Wyoming specifies the TRC to be its primary test for decision making. The benefit-cost tests are required for overall portfolio level screening. The rules for benefit-cost tests are not specified.
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March 27, 2013