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division of 85 7th Place East,Suite 500,St.Paul,MN 55101-2198 <br /> 9 <br /> main:651.296.4026 <br /> fa 851.2962891 <br /> ��r fax 651.2977891 <br /> Minnesota Department of Commerce W W W.t'llergy.1DI1gOv <br /> December 6, 2013 <br /> Jeffrey Haase <br /> Energy Efficiency Coordinator <br /> Great River Energy <br /> 12300 Elm Creek Blvd. <br /> Maple Grove,MN 55369 <br /> RE: Conservation Improvement Program(CIP)2012 Results and 2014 Plans • <br /> Dear Mr.Haase: <br /> Thank you very much for Great River Energy's efforts to report 2012 Conservation Improvement <br /> Program(CIP)results and a 2014 CIP plan in the Energy Savings Platform(ESP®)on behalf of Great <br /> River Energy's members. My staff has finished reviewing this information. <br /> 2012 ENERGY SAVINGS REPORTED <br /> Each utility and association has an annual energy savings goal equal to 1.5 percent of gross annual retail <br /> sales) Based on the information you provided,Great River Energy members saved a total of 127,028,666 <br /> kWh at the generator2 in 2012, 1.1 percent of average 2008-2010 retail sales.3 We appreciate Great River <br /> Energy's energy efficiency and conservation achievements in 2012. <br /> A summary of Great River Energy's energy savings by member are as follows: <br /> Member Utility Energy Savings at the Generator %of Retail <br /> Agralite (kWh) Sales <br /> gra 1,182,678 0.6% <br /> Arrowhead 240,947 0 <br /> 0.4/0 <br /> BENCO 2,890,867 1.1% <br /> Brown Co 594,746 0 <br /> 0.4/0 <br /> Connexus 23,628,782 1.2% <br /> Cooperative 201,661 0.2% <br /> 'See Minn. Stat. §2168241 subd. lc(b). <br /> 2 Based on a transmission and distribution loss factor of 8.0%previously provided to DER Staff. DER Staff <br /> assumed a transmission and distribution loss factor of 8%if no value was provided. <br /> 3 Minnesota Statutes 216B.241 subd. I c(b)states that the energy savings goal is to be calculated based on the most <br /> recent three-year weather-normalized average.This review was based on 2008-2010 retail sales as reported in ESP®. <br /> 89 <br />