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Approved
Utility Board
07/22/2019
•Assembly Bill 2021 (Levine, 2006) directed each POU to identify all potentially
achievable cost-effective, reliable, and feasible EE savings and establish 10-year EE
targets.
•Senate Bill 350 (De León, 2015) required the annual report to include a comparison of
actual EE savings to the annual target adopted in the most recent 10-year potential study.
The bill also directed POUs to develop EE targets consistent with the statewide EE
targets adopted by the CEC.
The purpose of this report is not only to look back on the success of the past year, but also to
look ahead and to inform discussions on how to achieve additional energy savings in the future.
California Senate Bill 1037 (Kehoe) established several important policies regarding EE. Among
the many provisions of the law is a statewide commitment to cost-effective and feasible EE, with
the expectation that all utilities consider EE before investing in any other resources to meet
growing demand.
The California Municipal Utilities Association (CMUA), in partnership with the Northern
California Power Agency (NCPA) and the Southern California Public Power Authority
(SCPPA), began a collaborative effort in October 2005 to develop an evaluation tool to measure
EE program effectiveness and report program savings in a consistent and comprehensive
manner. ALW is among the over three dozen POUs submitting EE data in compliance with the
provisions of the legislation.
Beginning with the current reporting period, the collaborative report is finally being updated
after 14 years, to a new cloud based platform. Energy Platforms (EP) is developing the new EE
Cost Effectiveness Tool and Reporting Platform (CET/RP) for the 2019 filing. EP has also
augmented and improved the functionality of the tool to include and utilize the CEC’s new end-
use load shapes – rather than using the 2011 DEER load shapes. This necessitated the assignment
of each POU to a specific Forecast Zone in CA. Forecast Zones are aligned with Balancing
Authority planning regions and they are different than Climate Zones used for Avoided Cost and
Green House Gas (GHG) data.
This process has taken more time than originally anticipated and the CEC granted CA POUs a
one-time extension to the Annual 2019 SB1037 EE report March 15, 2019 deadline to June 30,
2019, in order to allow the Joint POUs sufficient time to:
1) add the new load shapes into the CET/RP model;
2)adequately perform data validity and model performance testing;
3) deliver the new and fully-functional CET/RP to all 39 POUs in the state; and
4)allow the individual POUs to input their program data to the new CET-RP and confirm
the necessary results.
The CEC provided the additional time to allow the Joint POUs to incorporate the new EE load
shape data, thus providing better historical data and allowing the CEC to improve their
forecasting capabilities.
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In summary, the report indicates the following:
•During Fiscal Year 17/18, ALW spent almost $732,000 on EE programs, reducing gross
peak demand by approximately 654 kilowatts, and in excess of 3.036 million gross
kilowatt-hours on an annual basis.
•The levelized cost for POUs to deliver all EE programs in the aggregate is $0.036 per
kilowatt-hour, while ALW is currently at $0.030 per kilowatt-hour.
•The report indicates that residential and non-residential lighting programs, residential
cooling programs, and non-residential process programs are generally the most cost-
effective programs offered by POUs. This is in line with the more successful programs
currently being offered by ALW.
•As a result of cost-effective and targeted programs, ALW once again exceeded the annual
energy savings target of 1% of retail sales each year.
ALW Staff will continue to modify and refine the EE programs in a continued effort to provide
the maximum savings at the lowest cost of implementation.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact as a result of this report.
Prepared by: Reviewed and Approved:
Paul Reid Manny Robledo
Utility Programs Specialist Director of Utilities
Reviewed and Approved:
Sergio Gonzalez
City M anager
Attachment:
1) Energy Efficiency in California’s Public Power Sector 13th Edition — 2019
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