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Energy Efficiency Portfolio of the Future
Panel: Human and Social Dimensions of Energy Use: Trends and their Implications
Authors:
William Goetzler, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
Craig McDonald, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
Ganesh Venkat, Southern California Gas Company
Abstract
Faced with increasingly stringent goals for reducing future natural gas consumption, as well as the maturity of many traditional energy efficiency measures, the Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas®), in cooperation with Navigant Consulting Inc., (NCI) has expanded its efforts to accelerate the commercial acceptance of emerging energy efficient technologies. Distinct from R&D, this effort focuses on advancing technologies across the chasm between R&D and market acceptance, in order to accelerate market adoption and consequent energy savings. New technologies or business practices are required, but they must be sufficiently mature to be broadly implemented within a few years in order to make a significant impact on gas usage. This effort is referred to as SoCalGas' "Portfolio of the Future" (POF).
The POF program consists of several tasks, beginning with a screening of approximately 500 potential efficiency measures with respect to metrics such as stage of commercialization, cost effectiveness, energy savings potential, market and technical risk, and criticality of SoCalGas' involvement. Eventually, fourteen top-tier measures were identified, of which six are currently the subjects of demonstration projects, field evaluations, market assessments, or business strategy development. For the other top tier measures, strategies for accelerating market adoption are being considered. The goal is to ready some of these technologies for inclusion in SoCalGas' 2009 - 2011 efficiency programs. The following paper provides an overview of the POF project, explains the screening process, identifies the top tier measures, and describes the status of the pilot and demonstration projects.
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