Identified existing incentives for achieving efficiency targets and proposed new performance incentive mechanisms for energy efficiency.
Seeking alternative regulatory mechanisms intended to focus utilities on performance and desired outcomes, such as increased renewable energy, lower cost, and improved customer service.
Included a competitive solicitation incentive pilot and a utility regulatory incentive mechanism pilot which will facilitate the deployment of customer demand side programs, including efficiency investments.
A comprehensive effort to change how utilities perform system planning, what financial incentives they face, how they make use of distributed resources, including energy efficiency investments.
Highlighting financial rewards or earnings opportunities to program administrators, utilities, and shareholders in return for the expansion of energy efficiency programs in the utility sector.
NRDC has published a fact sheet on electric utility revenue decoupling and the potential value it provides to prioritizing energy efficiency investments.
Surveys traditional models of how utility fixed costs are recovered and the perverse incentives that system sends for prioritizing efficiency and savings.
A program that offered customers a rebate on a new efficient refrigerator if they gave up their old one.
The Dept. of Public Utilities issued a 2018 Order authorizing utilities to make $220 million in investments in grid modernization technologies over three years to upgrade their distribution systems to improve efficiency and reliability.