Going Green and Getting Regulation Right: A Primer on Energy Efficiency
Going Green and Getting Regulation Right: A Primer on Energy Efficiency responds to the rising interest in energy efficiency and demand-side management programs by exploring the important lessons that can be learned from earlier mandated conservation efforts and will be a valuable resource for regulators, utilities, intervenors and other policy makers.
This valuable resource uses a vast database of results from utility programs throughout the nation over the past 15 years to address these matters quantitatively. These analyses are complemented with a thorough qualitative and institutional review of the differences found across the nation and over time.
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AUTHOR: CHARLES J. CICCHETTI
ISBN: 978-0910325-21-9
7 x 10 inches
Hard cover
310 pages
(c) 2009
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Section I: What and Why
Chapter 1: Introduction: Why this Primer
Chapter 2: Utility-Sponsored Conservation and Other Social Mandates in the United States
Chapter 3: The Role of Utilities in Conservation: Regulatory Details that Matter
Chapter 4: Regulating the Path to Achieve Successful Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency
Section II: What Has Been Happening Around the Nation
Chapter 5: A Review of Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency and Load Management Activities
Chapter 6: Relative State-by-State Comparisons Over Time
Chapter 7: Benchmarking Effort and Performance
Section III: Regulating Energy Efficiency
Chapter 8: An Overview of Energy Efficiency Regulations
Chapter 9: The Economics of Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency When There Are Externalities
Chapter 10: External Benefits and Energy Efficiency
Chapter 11: Some Quantitative Evidence to Analyze External Benefits
Chapter 12: Combining Data and Theory
Section IV: The Cost of Energy Efficiency
Chapter 13: The Cost of Energy Efficiency and Load Management
Chapter 14: The Per-Unit Costs of Energy Efficiency and Load Management
Chapter 15: The Per-Unit Cost of Load Management
Chapter 16: How Regulation Affects the Costs That Customers Pay for Demand-Side Programs
Chapter 17: Cost-of-Service Regulation and Demand-Side Management
Chapter 18: Why Cost-of-Service Regulation May Be Given Too Much Current Weight
Section V: Testing the Theory that Incentives Matter
Chapter 19: California Shows Mandates and Rate Riders Work: A Brief History of California's Energy Efficiency Efforts
Chapter 20: Mixing Mandates and Incentives
Chapter 21: How States are Decoupling
Chapter 22: Direct Financial Incentives for Demand Response Programs
Chapter 23: Testing the Statistical Significance of Regulatory Policy Targets
Chapter 24: The statistical Significance of Incentives for Regulatory Policy Targets
Section VI: The Path Ahead
Chapter 25: Save-a-Watt: A New Paradigm
Chapter 26: Renewables and Energy Efficiency
Chapter 27: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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