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
Recent highlights
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2023 Annual Report
The report details the RTF’s many accomplishments in 2023. This includes maintaining and updating its measure library; expanding the measure library; 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 2023 researching the electric vehicle market with a specific lens on identifying energy savings opportunities.
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RTF Quarterly Newsletter: Quarter No. 54 October - December 2023
The RTF wrapped up 2023 with a busy fourth quarter. The body updated three unit energy savings (UES) measures and adopted one new UES. The RTF also considered new measure proposals, eventually agreeing to allocate resources to further consider two.
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2022 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 2022 the region achieved 150 aMW.
Actions
2024 RTF Meetings
RTF Member Solicitation 2025-2027
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council is soliciting applications for appointments to its Regional Technical Forum to serve three year terms beginning January 2025 and running through December 2027. Please see the solicitation letter and areas of experience document linked below for more detail.
Qualified and interested individuals who are able to commit the necessary time should submit a letter of interest and resume to Laura Thomas' attention by August 2, 2024. All current RTF members will be considered for re-appointment, but are required to submit letters of interest and a current resume.
Staff aim to make a recommendation to the Council for decision at either the September or October meeting. Applicants selected to serve on the RTF will be notified by the end of October.
Recent and Upcoming Meetings
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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24.4 millionmetric tons of carbon dioxide avoided |
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7,678 aMWsaved making efficiency the NW’s second largest energy resource |