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| ANB Staff and Associates have directed, managed and performed several projects related to energy efficiency and demand side management. Some of these projects are listed below: |
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| Technical, Economic, and Achievable DSM Potential Studies |
| Review of Energy Efficiency Fund Expenditures under SBX1 5 |
| Client: California Public Utility Commission |
| Reviewed the expenditures and related energy and demand savings of state funds for energy conservation. This consisted of gathering data from the funding recipients such as the CA electric and gas utilities, auditing the per unit energy savings estimates, determining the total energy and demand impact, reviewing the benefit cost computations, and re-estimating total resource costs benefit cost ratios. |
| Energy Conservation Potential for San Diego |
| Client: San Diego Regional Energy Office |
| Developed DSM programs and estimated the total energy conservation and load management potential for the San Diego Region for both electric and gas measures. Used the COMPASS model to estimate the life cycle costs of energy efficiency measures. Developed supply curves. |
| Electricity Conservation and Energy Efficiency in Florida |
| Client: Florida Energy Office and Seven Florida Utilities |
| Researched and evaluated commercial DSM measures for estimating the technical, economic and achievable potentials for the state of Florida. This consisted of developing load shapes and estimating capital and maintenance costs of the measures. The project was conducted for the Florida Energy Office and included Florida Power & Light, Tampa Electric Power Company, Florida Power Corporation, Gulf Power, Orlando Electric Company, Jackson Electric Authority, and Tallahassee City Electric. The collaborative also included staff members representing American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, LEAF, Florida Solar Energy Center, and other consultants. |
| Statewide DSM Potential |
| Client: Several Wisconsin Electric and Gas Utilities, and the Public Service Commission |
| Developed residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural databases of DSM options. These included high and low estimates of energy and demand impacts, and capital and maintenance costs by market segment for hundreds of measures. Key investigator for developing the commercial impact and cost data. |
| IRP and Load Shape Analysis |
| Client: Nova Scotia Power |
| Developed screening criteria for residential and commercial DSM measures, capital and maintenance costs, and estimated energy and demand impacts for evaluating technical, economic and market potentials of DSM measures. DOE2 and MicroAxcess energy simulation models were used to develop end use load shapes; these were then modified in order to aggregate across market segments and reconcile to system end use load shapes. Regulatory and interrogatory support was also provided. |
| Gas Technologies and Utility DSM |
| Client: Gas Research Institute |
| Developed load shapes and analyzed a Gas Research Institute project involving analyzing five gas technologies under various scenarios including warm and cold climates, and high and low gas and electric avoided costs and customer rates. |
| Demand-Side Capacity Assessment |
| Client: Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Cooperative |
| Developed over a thousand commercial, residential, and industrial base case and DSM case load shapes representing various market segments for MMWEC’s 34 utilities. The load shapes were used for in the COMPASS model to assess the technical potential of DSM measures. |
| Philadelphia Electric End-Use Analysis Study |
| Client: Philadelphia Electric Company |
| Evaluated the energy and economic impacts and forecast the potential market penetration of 10 commercial and industrial DSM technologies in 12 market segments using the DSMSIM and COMPASS models. This included hourly energy simulation and the development of hundreds of end use load shapes. |
| Philadelphia Electric DSM Plan Development |
| Client: Philadelphia Electric Company |
| Evaluated in great detail various commercial, industrial, and residential DSM programs using the COMPASS model, for PROSCREEN analysis; this consisted of a significant amount of hourly energy simulations and end use load shape development. |
| Other Related Projects |
| Conducted many other DSM assessment or integrated resource planning projects. In general, these projects consisted of developing a large measure list which is reduced by screening criteria. Simultaneously, a sales profile is developed consisting of energy use indices (EUIs) and saturations or market shares, by end use, by market segment, as well as floor area by market segment. Typically, DOE2 and MicroAxcess energy simulation models are used to develop residential and commercial base case and DSM load shapes: LS-Tools, DSMSIM and COOLSIM are often used, as well. The base-case load shapes are sometimes adjusted to reconcile to system load profiles. Capital costs and maintenance costs for the base case and DSM measures are estimated, as well as current market shares of the given DSM technologies. Utility characteristics are gathered, including rate schedules, avoided cost streams, T&D losses, on-peak and off-peak period definitions, etc. Finally, assumptions for market penetration data are established. All the data is typically entered into the COMPASS model to estimate technical, economic and/or market potentials; however, other techniques have been used, as well (DSManager, developed spreadsheet models, SAS programs, etc.). Often COMPASS output is prepared as input data for supply models, such as PROSCREEN and EGEAS. Along with general reports, very detailed appendices are developed documenting all of the DSM measure impacts, costs, market share data, etc. |
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