How Holy Are Your Savings?
Philipp Degens and Diane Ferington, Energy Trust of Oregon
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Abstract
Free rider, free driver, spillover, truing up savings based on evaluation, impact evaluations and their impact on program investment return. This topic is provided to evoke a discussion on how seriously efficiency programs respond to evaluation findings and incorporate derating figures. Are original savings for a given measure already incorporating evaluation findings? Once an evaluation is done, what do you do with facts as stated by one organization? What processes or procedures do utilities and other systems benefits administrators undergo in
response to evaluation?
Panels of the 2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Panel 1. Residential Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends
Panel 2. Residential Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Panel 3. Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Performance Analysis, and Building Industry Trends
Panel 4. Commercial Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Panel 5. Utility Regulation and Competition: Incentives, Strategies, and Policies
Panel 6. Market Transformation: Designing for Lasting Change
Panel 7. Human and Social Dimensions of Energy Use: Trends and Their Implications
Panel 8. Changing the Climate for Energy Efficiency: Local, National, and International Policy Dimensions
Panel 9. Appliances, Lighting, Information Technologies, Consumer Electronics, and Miscellaneous End Uses
Panel 10. Roundtables and Interactive Sessions: Learning by Doing
Panel 11. Efficient Communities
Panel 12. Energy Conversations