Indiana Administrative Code › Title 170 - INDIANA UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION › Article 4 - ELECTRIC UTILITIES › Rule 8 - Guidelines for Demand-Side Cost Recovery by Electric Utilities › Section 8-2 - Energy efficiency plan filing

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  8-1-1-3;
				  IC
				  8-1-8.5-10
Affected: IC 8-1-8.5
Sec. 2.
(a) An
				electricity supplier shall file a request for approval of an energy efficiency
				plan not less than one (1) time every three (3) years beginning no later than
				December 31, 2017.
(b) A utility
				applying to the commission for approval of its energy efficiency plan shall
				include the following information with its petition:
(1) A description of each energy efficiency
				program and demand response program proposed by the utility.
(2) A budget for the energy efficiency plan,
				including budgets for each energy efficiency program and demand response
				program.
(3) A cost-benefit
				analysis as required by IC
				8-1-8.5-10(j)(2),
				using at a minimum all the following:
(A)
				Participant cost test.
(B)
				Ratepayer impact measure test.
(C)
				Program administrator cost test.
(D) Total resource cost test.
Additional reasonable cost-benefit tests may be proposed. A
				  utility is not required to express a test result in a specific format, however,
				  results must include the total costs and total benefits used in calculations
				  and the benefit-cost ratio for the specific test.
(4) Projected changes in customer consumption
				of electricity resulting from the implementation of the energy efficiency
				plan.
(5) A statement of whether
				the energy efficiency plan is consistent with the commission
				analysis.
(6) A description of how
				the energy efficiency plan is consistent with the utility's most recent IRP,
				including copies of relevant portions of the utility's most recent
				IRP.
(7) Identification of a
				preference to a customer class potentially resulting from implementation of an
				energy efficiency program or demand response program.
(8) A description of the lost revenues and
				financial incentives the utility seeks to recover.
(9) The effect, or potential effect, in both
				the long term and the short term, of the energy efficiency plan on the electric
				rates and bills of program participants compared to the electric rates and
				bills of customers that do not participate in the program.
(10) An EM&V procedure, complying with
				section 4 of this rule, to assess implementation and quantify the impact on
				energy and demand of each energy efficiency program and demand response program
				included in the energy efficiency plan.
(11) A statement of the utility's energy
				efficiency goals for producing reasonably achievable energy efficiency through
				implementation of cost effective energy efficiency programs. The energy
				efficiency goals shall be designed to achieve an optimal balance of energy
				resources in an electricity supplier's service territory. The energy efficiency
				goals shall exclude industrial customers that have opted out of the utility's
				energy efficiency plan.
(12) If an
				electricity supplier is using forecasted costs and energy savings for cost
				recovery purposes, it shall propose a mechanism to reconcile forecasted costs
				and energy savings with actual costs and energy savings.
(13) The work papers and data used for
				calculations performed under subdivisions (3), (8), and (9).