2010 Utility Conservation Achievements Report
October 2011
This survey reports on conservation savings and expenditures by utilities, public benefits charge administrators (e.g., the Energy Trust of Oregon) and other agencies in the region in 2010. These entities were also asked to report their conservation savings and expenditures for 2010 and projections for 2011. Not all utilities have reported their savings and expenditures. The RTF has not independently verified the reported savings and expenditures.
The fiscal year/calendar year 2010 survey represents the activities of 76 utilities serving over ninety-eight percent of the region’s retail electricity sales. In aggregate, the region acquired 254 average megawatts of savings in 2010, far exceeding the Sixth Power Plan's target of 200 average megawatts for the year. The Sixth Plan's five year conservation target for 2010-2014 is 1,200 average megawatts. More background.
Background
In 1996, the steering committee of the Comprehensive Review of the Northwest Energy System recommended that the Regional Technical Forum (RTF) track progress in meeting conservation and renewable energy goals.
Every year the RTF conducts a survey of the region's utilities to report their conservation achievements.
No effort has been made to evaluate the methodology used by the utilities in calculating their savings, nor was a particular accounting method specified for reporting costs. As a result, the cost and energy savings attributed to measures by individual utilities are based on their own accounting practices and energy savings estimates.
- October 2011 presentation to Council and press release
- Summary of conservation savings and expenditures for utilities that reported
- Survey includes data from 2008 forward; also see 2006-07, 2004, 2002, 2000
76 utilities have reported 2010 actual expenditures/savings (as of today)
39 utilities haven't yet reported 2010 actual expenditures/savings
| Bangor Bremerton Centralia, (city) Chewelah Clallam Co. PUD #1 Clatskanie PUD Columbia Power Coop. Consolidated Irrigation District Coulee Dam Douglas County PUD Drain Eatonville Electric City Power | Ellensburg Elmhurst Mutual Fairchild Air Force Base Hood River Electric Coop. Kittitas Co. PUD #1 Kootenai Electric Coop., Inc. Lincoln Electric Coop. Mont Mcminnville Midstate Electric Coop. Minidoka Mission Valley Power OHOP Mutual Parkland P & L | Plummer Port of Seattle Richland South Side Electric Inc Sumas Surprise Valley Electric Corp. Tanner Electric Umpqua Indian Utility Cooperative United Electric Cooperative, Inc. Vera Water & Power Wahkiakum Co. PUD #1 Whatcom Co. PUD #1 Yakama Nation |