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RTF Small / Rural SubcommitteeQuarterly Meeting

Tuesday, April 28, 20159:00 am – 10:30 am

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Agenda

• Introductions [9:00 – 9:05am]

• Measure Small/Rural Checklists [9:05 – 9:30am]

• Additional Measures of Interest [9:30 – 9:40am]

• EE 102 [9:40 – 9:55am]

• Market Transformation Lag [9:55 – 10:05am]

• S/R Barriers to EE [10:05 – 10:15am]

• 2015 Work Plan [10:15 – 10:20am]

• Additional Discussion [10:20 – 10:30am]

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Recently Approved UES Measures – S/R Checklists

Please review checklists in advance of the meeting. At the meeting, Ryan will review individual checklists by request.

Date Measure

February 18, 2015

Residential: Appliances - Clothes Washers [see April]

Residential: Heating/Cooling - Ductless Heat Pumps for Zonal Heat MH Workbook Checklist

Commercial: DHW - Efficient Tanks Workbook Checklist

Residential: Weatherization - Single Family

Measure life for windows changes from 25 to 45 years. Updated workbook coming in May, along with additional QC updates.

Residential Electric Resistance Water Heater DEACTIVATED

March 17, 2015

Residential: New Construction - Energy Star Homes SF - Oregon 2012 Workbook Checklist

Commercial: Smart Plug Power Strips Workbook Checklist

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Recently Approved UES Measures – S/R Checklists

Please review checklists in advance of the meeting. At the meeting, Ryan will review individual checklists by request.

Date Measure

April 14, 2015

Residential: Heating/Cooling - Ductless Heat Pumps for Zonal Heat MH

Remove the 'primary' requirement for existing heat source from the measure specification for the DHP for MH with Zonal ER UES measure.

Residential: Appliances - Clothes Washers Workbook Checklist

Commercial: Appliances - Clothes Washers Workbook Checklist

Residential: Appliances - Clothes Dryers - SF, MH, and MF in-unit (PLANNING)

Workbook Checklist

Residential: New Construction - Montana House 2 - ASHP Workbook Checklist

Residential: New Construction - Montana House 2 - non-ASHP Workbook Checklist

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Additional Measures of Interest

• Truck Timers – Timers for engine block heaters to avoid running them all night.– Susie Snyder at Oregon Trail has been

recommending this to her members and is interested in seeing a measure developed.

– Any experience with this measure?– Would the S/R Subcommittee be interested in

developing a measure?• Other measures of interest to small/rural

utilities?

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EE 102• During the Efficiency Exchange, some S/R utilities indicated that they

needed to provide more education to their residential customers.• Benton REA has had success with 1-2 hour “Conservation Classes”

for residential customers to review EE measures available to them• BPA has developed information sheets for many of their residential

measures that could be used for “Conservation Classes”.• http://www.bpa.gov/EE/Sectors/Residential/Pages/default.aspx• Promotional Material - Partner One Sheets

– http://www.bpa.gov/EE/Sectors/Residential/Pages/Residential-Marketing-Toolkit.aspx

– DHP Partner One Sheet– Res Weatherization Partner One Sheet

• Bonneville can customize these materials for utility branding – contact Carolyn VanWinkle at BPA, email: cbvanwinkle@bpa.gov

• Question: What are the measures to focus on first? Let’s discuss.

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Market Transformation Lag• Market transformation in small/rural markets often lags behind larger

markets– Social and market dynamics that drive market transformation may not be as

robust in small/rural areas– Stock of inefficient products can linger in small/rural markets well past a

federal standard’s effective date or other wide-scale adoption of efficient products larger markets

• As a result, measures may be deactivated by the RTF (and then BPA) to reflect larger markets, but S/R markets may just be ramping up

• Is this a topic that the S/R Subcommittee would like to discuss further?– Characterize the issue– Discuss methods for reducing lag– Discuss methods for keeping incentives in place

• RTF PAC will be discussing this issue on May 15 – your input in advance of that meeting would be helpful.

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Barriers to EE at S/R Utilities• S/R Subcommittee has expressed interest in this topic

– Sentiment that success for S/R utilities may depend more on reducing barriers to existing measures and programs than finding new ones

• S/R Chairs would like to organize a special S/R meeting on this topic

• But we need your help!– Topics

• Identification of barriers• How to S/R utilities can mitigate barriers• How to regional organizations can mitigate barriers• Other?

– Invitees– Help preparing for the meeting

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2015 Workplan• Reminder: S/R Subcommittee has $30,000 budgeted in the

2015 RTF work plan. Possible application:– New measure development– Scoping study to identify new measures– Follow-up work on S/R Barriers– Other

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Additional Discussion

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