Volume 7 - Energy Efficiency and the Utility of the Future

Panel 7 Introduction

The Increased Importance of National Market Transformation Strategies for Accomplishing Energy Efficiency

Larry Alexander and Arlene Marge, Consortium for Energy Efficiency

Proposals for the Future of Energy Efficiency

Les Baxter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Striving for Sustainability: Avenues for Recovering Program Delivery Costs from Those Who Benefit

Paul I. Berkowitz, Sabrina L. Karl, and George R. Edgar, Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation

Integrated Targeted Area Resource Planning (ITARP): A Model for Transmission and Distribution Planning in the Deregulated Utility

David A. Blecker, MSB Energy Associates, Inc.

Making Performance-Based Ratemaking Consistent with Market Transformation

Paul A. Centolella, Science Applications International Corporation

The Future of Utility Resource Planning: Delivering Energy Efficiency Through Distribution Utilities

Paul Chernick and Jonathan Wallach, Resource Insight, Inc.

Comprehensive Conservation for Less Money: A Balanced Strategy

David C. Hewitt, F. Gordon, J. Pratt, G. Smith, and L. Tumidaj, Pacific Energy Associates, Inc.; M. Burnett and K. Egel, Conservation and Renewable Energy Systems

Conservation Funding Options and Impacts for Public Utilities

Cathy Higgins, Oregon Municipal Energy and Conservation Agency

Is There A Future for Electric-Industry IRP?

Eric Hirst, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Distributed Utility Concept: Toward a Sustainable Electric Utility Sector

Steven E. Letendre, John Byrne, and Young-Doo Wang, Center for Energy & Environmental Policy- University of Delaware

Financing Options for Demand-Side Management Programs: Risk-Reward Tradeoffs for Ratepayers

Meg Meal, Bill Monsen, and Anne Selting, Morse, Richard, Weisenmiller & Associates, Inc.

From Resource Value to Market Transformation: The Case for a Change in the Design Goals of Publicly Funded DSM Programs

Michael Messenger, California Energy Commission

Expanding the Customer Services Tool Kit: Mixing Electrotechnologies with Strategic Conservation

Dennis J. Nelson, B.C. Hydro

Telecommunication and Energy Efficiency: A Profitable Combination

Maura L. O’Neill, Samuel H. Skrivan and Paul J. Kim, O’Neill & Company, Inc.

Joint Delivery of Core DSM Programs: The Next Generation, Made in Vermont

John Plunkett, Optimal Energy Inc.; Scudder Parker, Vermont Department of Public Service

Can Energy Efficiency Keep the Rustlers Out? Energy Efficiency as a Customer Retention Tool

William R. Prindle, Alliance to Save Energy

Electrotechnologies: Intoxicating Potential and Sobering Reality

Joan E. Rothmann, Martin Katz and Victoria Zavattero, Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Energy Information Services and DSM: Merging Lanes on the Information Superhighway

Michael W. Rufo, XENERGY, Inc.

Using Performance Incentives to Encourage Distribution Utility Support of Market Transformation Initiatives

Jeff Schlegel, Schlegel & Associates; Fred Gordon, Pacific Energy Associates

The Lessons and Legacy of Integrated Resource Planning

Dan W. York, Energy Center of Wisconsin; David R. Narum, Emory University