# Presentation: 779880

## Measuring State-Level Potential for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Resources

**R. Neal Elliott, Ph.D., P.E.**
- Industrial Program Director
**Maggie Eldridge**
- Research Staff
**American Council **
**for an Energy-Efficient Economy**
- Washington, D.C.

## The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) 

- Non-profit (501c (3)) dedicated to advancing energy efficiency through research and dissemination.
- 25+ staffers in Washington, DC, Delaware, Michigan and Wisconsin
- The Energy Efficiency “Think Tank”
- Internationally Respected Source of Research Focus on End-Use Efficiency, Policy and Programs
- Funding:
- Foundation and Government Grants (55%)
- Specific Contract work (20%)
- Conferences and Publications (25%)

## Why Focus on States?

- Only one-fifth of policy handles for energy issues at federal level
- Four-fifths of policy handles at state level
- Constituents at state level

## Project Overview

- ACEEE has prepared numerous state energy efficiency assessments over the past 20 years
- Recently assembled teams of experts in Florida and Texas to supplement ACEEE skills
- Built analysis on past body of Energy Efficiency research

## Florida

**2023 EE&RE Resources = 99 Billion kWh **

## Texas

**2023 EE&RE Resources = 101 Billion kWh **

## Texas Summer Peak Demand 

**2023 EE&RE Capacity ~ 35,000 MW **

## Efficiency and Renewable Energy Policies

- Utility savings target
- Improved CHP policies
- More stringent building energy codes
- Advanced energy-efficient building program
- Public buildings program
- Appliance and Equipment Standards
- Industrial competitiveness initiative
- Expanded RD&D efforts
- Short-term public ed & rate incentives
- State RPS
- Onsite renewable energy incentives

**Florida**

- Expanded Energy Efficiency Improvement Program (EEIP)
- CHP capacity target
- More stringent building energy codes
- Advanced energy-efficient building program
- Public buildings program
- Appliance and equipment standards
- Short-term public ed and rate incentives
- Onsite renewable energy incentives
- Increased demand response programs

**Texas**

## Florida EE/RE Resources in 2023

**2023 EE&RE Resources = 99 Billion kWh **

## Texas EE/RE Resources in 2023

**2023 EE&RE Resources = 101 Billion kWh **

## Scope of Studies

- Florida and Texas: Electricity efficiency only (not natural gas)
- Natural Gas: regionally specific
- Transportation – missing piece!

**Florida Energy Consumption by Sector**

- Source: EIA 2003 State Energy Profiles

## Optimal Process

- Advanced Stakeholder Engagement
- Outreach
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Economic/Emissions Impacts
- Global Climate Change Context
- Follow-Up Resources

## Advanced Stakeholder Engagement

- Environmental groups
- Large consumers
- Utility interest
- Government and regulators

## State-Level Outreach

- Develop outreach plan
- Professional communications consultant
- Credibility
- Subcontract (Renewable Energy and Demand Response)
- Understand local issues

## Data Collection and Analysis

- Get creative to “fill in the gaps”
- What data does the audience use? (e.g. AEO vs. FRCC)
- Check credibility among state agencies
- Focus on analysis of achievable, policy potential

## Economic Impacts of Energy Efficiency

| Florida EE Financial Impacts (Millions of $2004) | 2013 | 2018 | 2023 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Net Consumer Savings | 337 | 2,103 | 4,827 |
| Net Cumulative Energy Savings | 269 | 6,804 | 25,093 |
| Employment Impacts | 2013 | 2018 | 2023 |
| Jobs (Actual) | (569) | 7,336 | 12,641 |

- Efficiency is labor-intensive; Energy supply is capital-intensive
- More work done locally
- Need slow, steady ramp-up of efficiency policies

## Global Climate Change Context

- Carbon is hot!!
- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy are tangible responses to climate change

| Florida EE Avoided Emissions * | 2013 | 2018 | 2023 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SO2 (thousand short tons) | 3.7 | 8.9 | 14.7 |
| NOx (thousand short tons) | 2.3 | 5.5 | 9.9 |
| CO2 (million metric tons) | 7.0 | 17.9 | 33.5 |

## Follow-up Resources for Stakeholders

- Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)
- U.S. EPA’s *Clean Energy-Environment Guide to Action*
- ACEEE utility program surveys
- Others

## Where to go from here?

- Need for much more state-level analysis
- ACEEE has identified 12 states
- Coordinated national effort that brings together a team of analysts and resource experts
- Identify state-level collaborators
- Multi-year commitment

## Contact Information

**R. Neal Elliott, Ph.D., P.E.**
- Industrial Program Director
**Maggie Eldridge**
- Research Staff
**ACEEE**
- 1001 Conn. Ave, NW, Suite 801
- Washington, DC 20036
- 202-429-8873
- _[rnelliott@aceee.org](mailto:rnelliott@aceee.org)_
- _[meldridge@aceee.org](mailto:meldridge@aceee.org)_
- For more information visit:
- http://aceee.org/energy