IEPEC Pre-conference Workshop
8 June 2010


National Policy Evaluation: Alternative Methods for Measuring Energy Efficiency Impacts

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Description:  This half-day workshop will provide an up-to-date overview of how regulatory bodies in Europe and the United States are verifying their official goals for meeting energy efficiency targets. The workshop will describe national efforts to verify energy savings, as well as various state and regional efforts to verify aggregate energy efficiency program savings. Rather than rehashing the pros and cons of project-level bottom-up evaluation, this workshop will focus on the many alternatives for undertaking long-term top-down evaluations. These alternatives include in-depth analysis of energy intensity indicators, market studies of the sales of energy efficient products and services, and direct estimation of energy savings using monthly or annual energy consumption data. To be effective in a managerial or policymaking role, energy professionals must learn about worldwide efforts to evaluate publically-funded energy efficiency programs and policies at the national level. This means becoming familiar with current practices and with the risks and costs that are involved in these practices. At present, policymakers are concentrating on developing goals and standards for energy efficiency programs, and not very much is understood about the complexities of aggregate energy efficiency measurement techniques and how they can be applied. It is the purpose of this workshop to explore the expansion of evaluation techniques and to have people begin to think about how evaluations can serve the national and worldwide need for documenting energy efficiency savings as a major new energy resource.
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