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This paper provides utility regulators with an outline of initial steps for developing an in-depth understanding of EPA rules and regulations. It includes a review of the EPA’s proposed rules as of May 2011, with a focus on compliance flexibility. View Summary +
The Regulatory Assistance Project, in partnership with the Energy Foundation and NRDC, commissioned E3, a consulting firm in San Francisco, to develop an energy efficiency assessment calculator tailored for use in China. This calculator is available free of charge, operates… View Summary +
This paper was presented at the 2011 ECEEE Summer Study. With the adoption of the Climate and Energy Package in 2008, European decision-makers created an integrated suite of policies to reduce carbon emissions, increase renewable energy production, and advance energy… View Summary +
This guide was prepared to assist anyone who needs to understand both the mechanics of a regulatory tool known as decoupling and the policy issues associated with its use. This would include public utility commissioners and staff, utility management, advocates… View Summary +
Utility-administered demand-side management (DSM) programs in India have been slow in achieving the shift to efficient appliances. This is due, in part, to utilities and regulatory commissions’ lack of expertise with DSM; utilities’ preoccupation with other issues, such as electricity shortages and high distribution… View Summary +
Roughly half of all efficiency and/or carbon emission reduction in North American and European buildings can be achieved through retrofit improvements to existing homes. In this publication, RAP offers a roadmap to help policymakers and practitioners design and implement a… View Summary +
RAP Principal Meg Gottstein was asked by E3G, a leading NGO on energy efficiency financing and the Green Investment Bank proposal in the UK, to communicate best practices for large-scale uptake of residential energy efficiency retrofits in the context of… View Summary +
This analysis presents a map of the type of administrative delivery structure each U.S. state has established to provide electric energy efficiency: utility, third-party, or government administration. In addition, it contains a short description about the details around each state’s… View Summary +
RAP’s Chris James and Rebecca Schultz, along with Catherine Witherspoon, former executive officer of the California Air Resources Board, made recommendations on revisions to China’s air quality index and ambient air quality standards in this letter to the regulation drafting… View Summary +
RAP’s Meg Gottstein prepared this advisory note, “Advisory Note on the Draft Framework Guidelines on Capacity Allocation and Congestion Management for Electricity,” on key market integration topics issued for comment by the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). View Summary +
RAP has developed and presented to regulators, member states and stakeholders an overview of the key elements of European electricity market integration in Europe and how decisions in the various areas of integration may act either to advance–or interfere with–Europe’s… View Summary +
RAP has developed and presented to regulators, member states and stakeholders an overview of the key elements of European electricity market integration in Europe and how decisions in the various areas of integration may act either to advance–or interfere with–Europe’s… View Summary +
With the adoption of the Climate and Energy Package in 2008, European decision-makers created an integrated suite of policies to reduce carbon emissions, increase renewable energy production, and advance energy savings. As the EU ETS moves to carbon auctioning, decision-makers… View Summary +