The Order has a specific minimum target of 3.6 TBtu for heat pumps and sets a combined budget of $454 million. In addition, NYSERDA will remain the default LMI multifamily provider. Utilities are directed to develop offerings that include incentives for comprehensive retrofits, for achieving deeper energy savings, and for predevelopment and technical assistance for building owners and managers. As in other orders, the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) is encouraged to work with NYSERDA to implement similar programs.įor the LMI portfolio, the Commission called for a statewide effort to improve access to programs and the customer experience, with the creation of a Customer Hub, and cost sharing between utilities and NYSERDA. The Order separates the portfolio by Low-to-Moderate Income (LMI), non-LMI, and heat pump programs.
Utilities are directed to transition their programs to target building envelope and other longer-term improvements, as opposed to short-term measures, and set incentives to encourage the highest levels of efficiency. The Order values pursuing all cost-effective measures within budget limits. Gas efficiency targets and budgets are based on the need in the Downstate market to reduce peak demand and the possibility of moratoriums on new gas hook-ups. The new Order sets electric targets to reach 3% reduction of electricity sales by 2025, as established in the Accelerated Efficiency Order. The January Utility Energy Efficiency Order is based on April and May 2019 utility filings of proposed plans for reaching the goals set in the Accelerated Efficiency Order, which significantly increased their efficiency budgets. In addition, the Order encouraged a more collaborative approach between the utilities and NYSERDA on programs and market development and a larger emphasis on heat pump deployment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the demand for natural gas in the Downstate market. No longer wed to a market-driven scheme, the Order ramped up utility savings goals, tripling them by 2025. The ETIPs largely kept utility energy efficiency programs at the pre-REV status quo – 1% incremental savings goals per year, with achievement slightly below that.īut then, on December 13, 2018, the PSC went back to a more traditional approach to energy efficiency and put out a set of more ambitious targets across utilities, NYSERDA, and other state actions in its Accelerated Efficiency Order. In the meantime, REV required New York’s utilities to create transition budgets and metric plans – Energy Efficiency Transition Implementation Plans (ETIPs). While REV continued to break new ground in other areas, in energy efficiency New York fell behind. It was a bold vision, but the market-driven system never really took shape, and energy efficiency investment through utility program lagged in New York, just as many other states were ramping up their energy savings goals. The idea was that it would be the market value of energy efficiency savings, rather than utility mandates, that would drive investment in energy-saving products and services.
It is also a huge leap in the savings New Yorkers will get from making their homes and businesses more energy efficient.Īs part of its broader Reforming Energy Vision (REV) initiative, New York created a new concept for energy efficiency, with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) changing its focus from consumer programs to market transformation. This is a robust order with strong heat pump and low-to-moderate-income programs. On January 16, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) issued an order approving Utility Energy Efficiency and Building Electrification Portfolios Through 2025.
0 kommentar(er)
