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ANORANIIA419 <br />Legitimate Savings. The current <br />program does not recognize much of <br />the legitimate energy savings that do <br />or could occur from utility efforts. <br />Life -of- measure savings. <br />Energy savings from adopting <br />most energy efficiency technologies <br />continue to accrue over the useful <br />life of the measure. But the CIP law <br />recognizes the energy savings of a <br />given measure only in the year in <br />which it is installed or adopted. For <br />measures with useful lives of more <br />than one year, the energy savings <br />accruing during those years should <br />be counted towards savings goals. <br />System improvements. <br />Current law provides a greater incentive for <br />utilities to create energy savings from measures <br />affecting the amount of energy consumed by <br />the customer than from measures that could be <br />taken to prevent energy loss from generation, <br />transmission and distribution required to serve <br />the customer. These savings have the same <br />environmental value and should be credited on <br />an equal basis with behind - the -meter energy <br />savings. <br />Educational Efforts. <br />Much of the potential energy savings from <br />utility efforts could come from the changing <br />behaviors of customers. Utilities cannot make <br />those changes happen without communicating <br />the benefits of making energy- conscious <br />Position Statement <br />0 <br />decisions to customers. These educational • <br />efforts are among the most effective means of <br />creating energy savings, but they are hard to <br />quantify and are not recognized under the CIP <br />program. If the program could recognize these <br />savings, utilities would have an incentive to <br />place a higher emphasis on consumer education, <br />which is critical to achieving long -term changes <br />in energy usage patterns. The energy education <br />efforts of public power communities should <br />be given credit for energy savings deemed to <br />have occurred as result of consumer education <br />efforts. If savings credits are not acceptable, the <br />Department of Commerce should be required <br />to run a state -wide education program from the <br />proceeds already assessed to utilities. <br />2013 State Position Statements / 11 <br />0 <br />