Agenda:
breakfasts, lunch and
breaks sponsored by
Tri-State Generation and Transportation Association,
Inc.
Opening Remarks
What Do You What to Achieve Today? by
Peggy Plate, Western Area Power Administration
How DSM Can Meet
Your Load Objectives by Ed Thomas, Market Development Group
Learn the basics of
Demand Side Management strategies - energy efficiency and conservation,
demand response and peak clipping, valley filling and load shifting,
etc. Overview of the basic types of programs that utilities are
deploying throughout North America to shape their demand to meet supply,
transmission and distribution constraints as well as competitive and
pricing pressures. Understand how smart metering and other technology
advances are redefining DSM opportunities at some utilities.
Getting
Management Buy-In:The Drivers to Develop and Implement DSM Program
by Katherine Johnson, Market Development Group is moderator with
panelists:
Panel discussion
with senior staff from leading utilities nationwide that have embraced
DSM as a vital part of their utilities’ integrated resource planning.
Candid discussion about how political and community pressures drive
utility decision making.
Do the Math:
Calculating and Articulating the Value of DSM by
Katherine Johnson, Market Development Group
Discover
how utilities can articulate the value of Demand Side Management
activities when setting utility budgets and rate increases. Overview of
the proven methods for projecting, measuring and evaluating DSM program
effectiveness. Practical examples of how utilities across North America
cost-justify DSM program efforts with emphasis on the importance of
“building in” objective measurement components during the program design
phase to streamline data collection during the evaluation phase
Calculators:
Light Bulb Calculator - Customer Perspective,
TRC Calculator,
Lighting Calculator - Utility Perspective
Glossary:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Administration for Children and Families, Low-Income Home Energy
Assistance Program Clearinghouse
Glossary of Selected Terms Used in Utility Deregulation
Total Resource Cost (TRC) Test
- A benefit-cost test which measures the net costs of a demand-side
program as a resource option based on the total costs of the program,
including both the participants' and the utility's costs. The benefits
for the TRC are avoided supply costs (avoided credit and collection
costs should also be included, as they are system costs). The costs in
this test are the program costs (including equipment costs) paid by
both the utility and the participants plus the increase in supply
costs for any period in which load has been increased. Sometimes
includes externalities: see Societal Cost Test.
Societal Cost Test
- The benefit-cost test which evaluates DSM programs from a broad
societal perspective. It is identical to the Total Resource Cost Test
except that the benefits include beneficial externalities, and the
costs include negative externalities. Benefits can include avoiding
environmental or social externalities costs (e.g. homelessness), and
"non-price" benefits enjoyed by participants (improved comfort,
aesthetic qualities, etc.).
Roundtable
Discussion of DSM Challenges
What is Your Greatest DSM Program Challenge?
Ed Thomas and Katherine Johnson, Market Development
Group, moderators
All participants
are invited to share their greatest challenges in planning and
implementing DSM programs
Identifying Next
Steps and Program Resource Needs
Where do we go from here?
Peggy Plate, Western Area Power Administration,
Moderator
All attendees will
hear summaries from the small group discussions. Together, attendees
will identify what informational resources they need most to proceed
with program planning and implementation back at their utility.
Closing Remarks
and Adjourn
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