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Nov 02

Total Resource Cost Test – Less than Total is Better??

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Rant One Comment

I spent considerable time a year ago figuring out the various cost effectiveness tests that are applied to energy efficiency programs. Since they are so bizarre, it took me almost an hour again to relearn it. Thankfully, I documented it in language I can understand, and no one squawked about anything being wrong, so I’m going to believe it was right. For a refresher, that was Energy Efficiency Benefit/Cost Tests and a Handful of Excedrin. I won’t recycle all that information, but in this Rant I will advance the discussion to demonstrate that the usual benefit/cost test, the Total Resource…

Oct 06

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Energy Efficiency Benefit/Cost Tests- And a Handful of Excedrin, Pretty Please

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant 10 Comments

Back in May I wrote that we need to explain the benefits of energy efficiency in simple terms – like our mothers would understand. In that I explained that utilities serve a public benefit, like roads. Since the dawn of energy efficiency, there have been cost effectiveness hurdles – that make little sense to this 20 year veteran, let alone my 80 year old mother. Since this is not (thankfully) my normal area of expertise, it took me a couple hours to figure things out and I’m still not sure I have this all right. That my friends speaks volumes,…