The RTF is a technical advisory committee to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council established in 1999 to develop standards to verify and evaluate energy efficiency savings
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2024 Annual Report
The report details the RTF’s many accomplishments in 2024. This includes maintaining and updating its measure library; considering new opportunities for potential future measures; and refining the RTF’s tools to further support energy efficiency and demand response work. In looking to continue to develop energy efficiency measures applicable to the region, the RTF spent time in 2024 researching the data center market with a specific lens on identifying energy savings opportunities.
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2023 Conservation Achievements
The Council collects information each year about energy efficiency achievements from Northwest utilities, the Bonneville Power Administration, and the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance and reports on the region’s progress toward the Council’s energy efficiency targets. In 2023 the region achieved 160 aMW.
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RTF Quarterly Newsletter: Quarter No. 58 October — December 2024
RTF Quarterly Newsletter: Quarter No. 58 October — December 2024 In the fourth quarter, RTF finalized the updates of the existing heat pump measures before tackling new measures next year, provided direction on pursuing efficiency for electric vehicles, and updated key measures for new manufactured homes and residential gas furnaces. This quarter also marked the final months of the 2022-2024 RTF Member class, who for the past three years have continued to work hard to ensure the rigor of RTF...
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Swipe left or rightHow does the RTF help the region achieve its goals?
With the passage of the Northwest Power Act in 1980, Congress defined energy efficiency as a key resource for meeting the region's load growth. The Regional Technical Forum was established as a body that would provide the region with consistent and reliable quantification of energy savings estimates for specific efficient technologies or actions. The energy savings estimates generated through the public processes of the RTF enable accurate estimates of the region's efficiency potential vital to power system planning, as well as a better understanding of the region's efficiency accomplishments. Since 1978, energy efficiency has provided significant benefits to the Northwest:
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$5 billiondollars saved from avoided energy consumption |
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25 millionmetric tons of carbon dioxide avoided |
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7,865 aMWsaved making efficiency the NW’s second largest energy resource |