ENERGY EFFICIENCY

IN CALIFORNIA

Santa Barbara Summit on

Energy Efficiency
UC Santa Barbara
May 20th, 2009
Stanford, California

THE NEXT
GENERATION
Commissioner Dian M. Grueneich
California Public Utilities Commission
THE CHALLENGE
WE FACE

While California EE
efforts have contributed
to stabilization of per
capita emissions
statewide, California’s
long-term goals will
require dramatically
increased efforts and
success.

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THE CURRENT APPROACH TO
CAPTURING EE POTENTIAL

2009-2011 California Utilities Portfolios, Savings Distribution by End Use

(as originally filed, July 2007)

What’s wrong with this picture?

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COMING TO GRIPS
WITH REALITY
Verified
Program
Results:
Screw‐in
CFLs


January
2006
–
June
2008


Evaluator‐verified
installaDon
rates


Changes
in
net‐to‐gross,
expected
useful
life,
etc


Changes
in
net‐to‐gross,
expected
useful
life,
etc


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REVISIONING
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Need to ensure public purpose programs are highly effective and achieve California’s
ambitious energy savings and GHG targets

•  Move Beyond Short •  Pursue Broader, •  End-to-End Planning

Term Savings and Comprehensive and Broader
Increase the Yield Approaches to Realizing Collaboration to bring
of EE Savings Per Efficiency Opportunities about True Market
Dollar Spent to Generate Deep- Transformation
seated, Durable Savings

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STRATEGIC PLAN
FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY

•  Residential •  DSM Coordination

(including Low Income) & Integration
•  Commercial •  Workforce Education
& Training
•  Industrial
•  Marketing Education
•  Agriculture & Outreach
•  Heating Ventilation & •  Research &
Air Conditioning Technology
•  Codes and Standards •  Local Governments

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Commercial New Construction
•  All new commercial construction in California
will be zero net energy by 2030.

Residential / Small Commercial

•  Heating, Ventilation, and HVAC
Air Conditioning (HVAC)
industry will be reshaped

Residential New Construction

•  All new residential construction in Low- Income
California will be zero net energy by 2020.
Energy
Efficiency
•  All eligible low-
income homes
will be energy-
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efficient by 2020
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY THEMES
IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN

•  Aggressiveness of California’s goals demands

targeted R&D effort

•  Crucial need to identify new technologies and

enhance existing technologies to accelerate their
uptake and broaden their use.

•  Improved framework for coordination among

current efforts
–  CEC-PIER, Utility ET programs, DOE, Universities, and
Private Sector
–  Establish RD&D Coordinating Council committed to
identifying research priorities, funding mechanisms, and
coordinating structure to advance R&D throughout the state.
–  Need a framework more effective in shepherding
technologies from concept to commercialization.

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GOAL EXAMPLE:
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Goal
1.  Refocus utility and Energy
Commission energy efficiency
research and technology support to
create demand pull and set the
research agenda for both
incremental and game-changing
energy efficiency technology
innovations.
2.  Conduct targeted emerging
technologies R&D to support the Big,
Bold Energy Efficiency Strategies
and integrated energy solutions
goals.
Goal Results
Ratepayer-funded R&D programs will
explicitly support widely applicable whole-
building improvement, lighting, and plug
load solutions envisioned in this Plan and

will be used to leverage other private and
public funds for the deployment of new
technologies.
Profound improvement in equipment
efficiency as well as new building materials
and designs aimed at achieving more
efficiency from new buildings than
 technically feasible today, and necessary
to achieve Zero Net Energy and hot/dry
climate HVAC outcomes
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PUTTING THE PLAN INTO ACTION
– NEXT STEPS
•  Approve utility 2009-2011 EE Portfolios consistent with Strategic
Plan objectives and direction

•  Organize working apparatus for

–  More detailed analysis and prioritization
–  Resource and leadership commitments
–  Multi-stakeholder Collaborative Action

•  Energy Efficiency Web portal

•  Statewide Marketing and Branding Initiative

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THANK
YOU!
•  For more Information visit
www.CaliforniaEnergyEfficiency.com

•  Coming soon: EE Web Portal

–  Technical level launch date: July 31, 2009.
Energy efficiency policy, program design, and
evaluation/measurement information and much
more.
•  Interactive tool for policymakers,
practitioners, NGOs and
business leaders.

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