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Author(s): Mike Messenger and Tom Eckman  Date: August 2010
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This is the second in a series of webinars RAP is offering to Energy Foundation grantees on energy efficiency (EE) program design and implementation. The training sessions are designed to help participants successfully engage in regulatory proceedings and other forums where energy efficiency program proposals are being presented and evaluated. (Webinar duration: 3 hours).
Author(s):   Date: August 2010
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Biographical information for Mike Messenger and Tom Eckman, presenters of RAP's Aug. 24, 2010 webinar, Integrating the Impact of Energy Efficiency Programs into Resource Planning.
Author(s): Mike Messenger, Tom Eckman  Date: August 2010
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PDF version of RAP webinar presentation, Aug. 24, 2010.
Author(s): Lisa Schwartz  Date: August 2010
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Lisa Schwartz gave this presentation at the 2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. The presentation examines the connections between smart grid and customer-side energy resources (energy efficiency, demand response, distributed generation and energy storage) and the policies needed to ensure customer and environmental benefits This associated paper on this topic will be published in the conference proceedings.
Author(s): Richard Sedano  Date: July 2010
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Richard Sedano's presentation to the Energy Policy Summit, preceding the National Conference of State Legislatures' 2010 annual meeting, examines high-level policy considerations and the critical role legislators play in steering progress on carbon reduction.
Author(s): Wayne Shirley  Date: July 2010
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Wayne Shirley made this presentation to the Energy Resources and the Environment Committee at the NARUC summer meetings, held in Sacramento, CA. The presentation highlights the basic mechanics of decoupling revenues from sales. It includes preliminary results from a more extensive case study analyzing the impacts of decoupling on residential customers with low, average and high energy usage under inclining block rates, flat rates and straight-fixed variable rates.
Author(s): Lisa Schwartz  Date: July 2010
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Lisa Schwartz's presentation to NARUC’s Energy Resources and the Environment Committee examines feed-in tariffs (FITs) in Oregon and Vermont and strategies to improve value to ratepayers. FITs give retail customers, third-party developers, or both the right to interconnect distributed renewable resources to the grid and sell electricity to the utility. Instead of upfront incentives, FITs provide payment for actual energy production over time – typically based on the cost of the projects, not the utility’s avoided resource.
Author(s): Lisa Schwartz  Date: July 2010
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Lisa Schwartz gave this update to the NARUC-FERC Smart Response Collaborative on the Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse funded under the Recovery Act. The beta version of the Web site, designed as a one-stop shop for all things smart grid, is now online at http://www.sgiclearinghouse.org.
Author(s): Richard Cowart  Date: July 2010
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Richard Cowart's presentation at the NARUC Summer Meetings session, "State Regulators and Climate Policy: What We Do Matters," outlines the essential role of state PUCs.
Author(s): Lisa Schwartz  Date: July 2010
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This presentation to the Pacific Northwest Demand Response Project on the dynamic pricing/consumer behavior studies funded by U.S. Department of Energy under the Recovery Act was originally presented by Chuck Goldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, at the National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2010.
 
 
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