AESP Brown Bag Webinar: How EM&V Ramp-Up Has Impacted Arkansas Energy Efficiency Efforts
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AESP Brown Bag Webinar: How EM&V Ramp-Up Has Impacted Arkansas Energy Efficiency Efforts
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When the Public Service Commission named the first set of Arkansas energy efficiency programs “Quick-Start” programs—they weren’t that far off the mark. The pace for the next generation of programs – Comprehensive – has gone even faster. In just two years the energy efficiency community in Arkansas has made stellar progress. It is now ranked fourth in the Southeast and is viewed as a major leader in energy efficiency in the Southeast- a big jump from its 37th ranking in 2010, according to ACEEE’s State Energy Scorecard.
The Arkansas energy efficiency rules offer program cost and lost contribution to fixed cost recovery to the participating utilities, as well as a performance incentive. All of that, however, depends upon the results of EM&V protocols that were not in place at the time of the first DSM Plan filing. Arkansas’ Parties Working Collaboratively (PWC) has built the Evaluation, Measurement & Verification (EM&V) protocols in parallel with implementation efforts, sometimes yielding unexpected results for the energy efficiency business case.
The hard work of the PWC has tackled thorny evaluation issues while balancing many divergent viewpoints. This Brown Bag will feature a panel discussion of PWC participants to assess the challenges of developing the EM&V framework while meeting business needs or organizational responsibilities.
Learn about the panelists for this event here.
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