RTF Staff, Subcommittee and Work Updates

October 23, 2012

RTF Website Updates

• End Use Business Case Management Report• RTF Measure Online Petition Form• 2013 RTF Membership

Other Measure or Website Updates

• Variable Speed Heat Pumps, New Construction– VSHP removed from new residential construction

UES measure - no electric resistance baseline

• Energy Star Homes Workbook Update– Updated workbook for "Res | New Construction -

Energy Star Homes SF - WA/ID/MT" to include gas furnace cases without air conditioning

Operations Subcommittee

• Met October 2, 2012• Reviewed October Agenda• 2013 RTF Member Selection• 2013 Work and Business Plan

Guidelines Subcommittee

• Scheduling a date in future for subcommittee meeting

• Purpose is to discuss: – Lengthy comments received during Appendix D&E

rollup– Any issues discovered during Guidelines

consolidation effort

REM/Rate vs. SEEM Subcommittee

• Request from NEEA and Fluid• Subcommittee meeting in November • Model calibration of 3rd party software

(REM/Rate NW version) to SEEM for use in utility programs. Review of input assumptions and comparing output data.

• Call for volunteers

Other Subcommittees

• CVR Subcommittee • Review of PacifiCorp pilot project• Evaluate implications for protocol• Scheduling a date for early November• IT Subcommittee• Mira Vowles of BPA offered to lead• Setting a date for early November• Call for Volunteers

Small Commercial Subcommittee

• Earth Advantage is developing a prescriptive Small Commercial package using NBI's Core Performance guide as the energy component (see handout)

• Asking for help in defining model requirements

• Call for volunteers to provide guidance methodology and assumptions used in the modeling to arrive at UES savings estimates

Busy Winter – Tentative agenda items• Residential SF SEEM 94 Calibration & Ventilation/Air Sealing Analysis• PTCS CC&S SF• PECI Grocery Measures: Phase II UES• DHP results from NEEA• UES Phase I: 1st Look at Second Batch• Review PSE Multifamily Air Sealing Evaluation Plan• Deemed Calculator Conversions to Standard Protocols• Small/Rural Schools Report• Standard Cost Workbook• UES Phase II: Decision on last 4 measures• Residential Single Family Measures• Residential LED's• DHP's in Manufactured Homes - Provisional• UES Phase I: Decision on Second Batch

Tentative 2013 RTF Meeting Dates

• January 23 (Wed.)• February 20

(Wed.)• March 19• April 16• May 14• June 18

• July 16• August 20• September 17• October 15• November 19• December 17