A literature review and interviews across utilities to probe the efficacy of customer behavior programs, and a study on energy efficiency behavioral programs, conducting a literature review, benchmarking analysis, and issuing evaluation guidelines.
Surveyed different types of behavior change programs, including community-based challenges with public dashboards that display the communities’ aggregated energy use, which are often combined with a contest to reduce consumption.
A popular technological platform for helping residential customers monitor and reduce their energy usage. They have been selected as the platform of choice in numerous utility-managed behavioral efficiency programs.
Provides an overview of residential customer information and behavior energy efficiency programs for policy makers, with a focus on customer information/feedback.
Surveyed the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports were repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. Found that behavioral impacts built up slowly and attenuated slowly.
A comparative analysis of utility-run behavior programs, counting 281 programs, many with multiple iterations, offered by 114 energy providers and third parties between 2008 and 2013.
The California PUC finalized quality standard for biogas, including acceptable concentration levels for 17 constituents of concern in biogas.
Notes that several gas utilities in the USA have RNG programs and their own requirements for the quality of RNG injected into their grid.
California established a $40 million monetary incentive program under which certain renewable gas producers can recover a portion of their interconnection costs from gas utilities.
New York utilities must develop methodologies for assessing distribution system needs and the potential value of DER solutions.