TecMarket Works: Non-Energy Benefits

This category includes research associated with documenting and valuing a wide range of benefits associated with energy efficiency programs. These benefits include such items as reductions in water use, productivity improvements, increased sales levels, lower arrearage levels, more on-time payments, lower bad debt for utilities, and environmental improvements to name a few. Also included in this category are methods for calculating the benefit cost ratios for programs that provide non-energy benefits.

Publications:

Hall, Nick, Johna Roth, Carmen Best. "Estimating and Tracking The Value of Custom Program Non-Electric Benefits." National Grid, May 2006.

Hall, Nick, Johna Roth. “An Examination of BC Hydro’s Power Smart Program’s Approach for Estimating Non-Electric Benefits and Incremental Project Costs in the Commercial and Industrial Sectors” TecMarket Works, 86 pages, July 2005.

Hall, Nick. “Non-Energy Benefits of Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy Renewable Energy Program” TecMarket Works, 60 pages, January 2005.

Hall, Nick, Johna Roth. “Non-Energy Benefits to Implementing Partners From the Wisconsin Focus on Energy Program” TecMarket Works, 64 pages, October 2003.

Bakalars, Kimberly, Lark Lee, Laura Schauer, Nick Hall, Tom Talerico, Kim Leal. "Cross-cutting Function: Education and Training Year One Evaluation Report." 52 pages. March 2003.

Hall, Nick and Johna Roth. "Non-energy Benefits to Implementing Partners from the Wisconsin Focus on Energy Program: An Early Feedback Report." 49 pages. May 2003.

Hall, Nick, Jeff Riggert, Tom Talerico. "Non-energy Benefits Cross-cutting Report: Year One Efforts." 92 pages. January 2003.

Hall, Nick, and Tom Talerico. "A Mini Process Evaluation of the Cross-cutting statewide major markets education and training efforts." 5 pages. May 2002.

Hall, Nicholas P. and Dr. John H. Reed, "Evaluation Methods to Quantify Non-Energy Impacts of Vermont's Weatherization Assistance Program," TecMRKT Works, January 1998.

Hall, Nicholas P., "Series of Monthly Marketing News and Views in ENR Targets," Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources. Nicholas P Hall wrote, edited, and managed this periodical from September 1986 to January 1988.

Morgan, Rick, Van Needham, Kathy Ruthen, Nicholas P Hall, and Jeff Riggert, "An Innovative Approach to Low-Income Energy Education: Helping Customers Help Themselves Through Aggressive Energy Education," Proceedings of the 1999 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference, Denver, CO., Vol. 9, pg. 187, August 1999.

Riggert, Jeff, Nick Hall and Curt Puckett. "Low-Income Energy Services National Best Practices Case Studies." Prepared for Excel Energy, 67 pages, September 2000.

Riggert, Jeff, Nick Hall, John Reed, and Andrew Oh. "Non-Energy Benefits of Weatherization and Low-Income Residential Programs: The 1999 Mega-Meta-Study," in Proceedings of ACEEE 2000 Summer Study on Efficiency in Buildings, Asilomar, CA. ACEEE, Washington, D. C., August 2000.

Riggert, Jeff, Andrew Oh, Nick Hall and John Reed. "An Evaluation of the Energy and Non-Energy Impacts of Vermont's Weatherization Assistance Program." Prepared for Vermont's Office of Economic Opportunity, 99 pages, November 1999.

Reed, John, Andrew Oh, Tom Talerico, Jeff Riggert, Nicholas Hall. "An Examination of the Results of the Apartment and Condominium Energy Services Program." 92 pages. November 2002.

Reed, John, Andrew Oh, and Nick Hall. "The Structure and Operations of the Commercial Building Market," in Proceedings of ACEEE 2000 Summer Study on Efficiency in Buildings, Asilomar, CA. ACEEE, Washington, D. C., August 2000. pdf 134k download

TecMRKT Works, SERA Inc. and Megdal & Associates. "Low-Income Public Purpose Test (LIPPT): Final Report updated for LIPPT Model v. 2.0." Prepared for California's RRM's Cost Effectiveness Committee, PG&E, SCE, SoCalGas, and SDG&E, 226 pages, May 2001. 1.4MB doc download

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