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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RTF Quarterly Newsletter: Quarter No. 52 April-June 2023
The RTF spent the second quarter of 2023 primarily focused on considering updates to existing measures, approving changes to nine UES measures. These measures covered a broad range of technologies from pumps to thermostatic shower restriction values to the majority of the RTF's suite of weatherization measures. The RTF also reviewed the completion of the first calibration task of the new Residential Energy Efficiency and Demand Response (REEDR) tool. Two of the non-measure specific...
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2022 Annual Report
Every June the RTF publishes an annual report enumerating its accomplishments over the course of the previous year. In 2022, the RTF continued its central work of developing and maintaining conservation measures, including expanding the suite of heat pumps water heaters, creating a standard protocol for demand control kitchen ventilation, as well as improving on existing measures including residential lighting.
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2021 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 2021 the region achieved 216 aMW.
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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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24 millionmetric tons of carbon dioxide avoided |
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7,500 aMWsaved making efficiency the NW’s second largest energy resource |