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Evaluation Activities Related to Statewide Energy Efficiency Utility

Initial 3-Year Contract Cycle (Years 2000 - 2002)

This document contains the summary of the Vermont Department of Public Service's evaluation activities with regard to Efficiency Vermont, the Energy Efficiecny Utility (EEU). It also contains executive summaries from the three primary reports, and a list of project documents. These documents are available on request from the Department, and in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) via the following links.

Summary - August 14, 2003

The September 30, 1999 Board order creating an Energy Efficiency Utility (“EEU”) in Docket 5980 established that the Department of Public Service (“Department” or “DPS”) has a specific role as the entity charged with providing formal evaluation of the efficiency utility programs and that these evaluation activities would be funded by energy efficiency charge (“EEC”) funds collected by the Fiscal Agent. The Board approved Memorandum of Understanding further specified that the evaluation would include, but not be limited to, an assessment of market transformation accomplishments.

In its May 29, 2002 “Report and Recommendations to the Vermont Public Service Board Relating to Vermont’s Energy Efficiency Utility”, the Department provided a summary of DPS formal evaluation activities together with draft summary reports and preliminary findings.

This document is a report on the results of that evaluation work and concludes the Department’s’ EEU evaluation activities for the years 2000 through 2002, the first three years of EEU operation.

• Appendix 1: Executive Summary - Residential Efficient Products
• Appendix 2: Executive Summary - Residential New Construction
• Appendix 3: Executive Summary - Commercial and Industrial
• Appendix 4: Overview of GDS C&I Evaluation

Project Documents

1. Final Report: Phase 1 Evaluation of the Efficiency Vermont Efficient Products Program, Xenergy Inc., June 10, 2002
2. Final Report: Phase I Evaluation of the Efficiency Vermont Residential New Construction Program, Xenergy Inc.
3. Vermont Residential New Construction 2002, West Hill Energy & Computing, Inc., January 2, 2003
4. Preliminary Market Characterization: Low Income Programs, Xenergy, October 2001
5. Evaluation of the Commercial & Industrial Sector Markets and Activities of Vermont’s Energy Efficiency Utility, GDS Associates Team, March 31, 2003 and Revised, May ‘03 Chapter 8 Volume 1 and Volume 2
6. An Initial Assessment of Burlington Electric Department's Core Program Implementation, GDS Associates, May 24, 2002
7. Draft Report, "Customer Credit Program Implementation Assessment", GDS Associates, May 23, 2002
8. DPS Report and Recommendations to the Vermont Public Service Board Relating to Vermont's Energy Efficiency Utility of January 31, 2003 with attachments and appendices
9. Verification for Efficiency Vermont Year 2000 Savings and total Resource Benefit (TRB) Claim
10. Verification for Efficiency Vermont Year 2001 Savings and total Resource Benefit (TRB) Claim
11. Verification for Efficiency Vermont Year 2002 Savings and total Resource Benefit (TRB) Claim
12. Independent Audit of Vermont Energy Efficiency Utility Energy and Capacity Savings for 2000 and 2001, Martin Cummings, December 20, 2002
13. NEEP Scoping Study on Market Penetration Tracking of Energy-Efficient Motors and Packaged HVAC Systems in New England and New York, Nexus Market Research, Inc., August 8, 2003
14. NEEP Motorup Evaluation and Market Assessment, Xenergy Inc., November 5, 2001
15. Energy Star Customer Awareness Survey 2000, The Cadmus Group, February 9, 2001