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 New Manufactured Homes and HVAC The RTF updated the New Manufactured Homes (MH) and HVAC UES measure at its November meeting. The first iteration of this measure was adopted in 2009 and as of today the measure represents approximately 12 aMW and 200,000 therms of potential in the region. During this update, the RTF moved the measure into alignment with the Guidelines by updating the baseline of the measure to the market...
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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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25 millionmetric tons of carbon dioxide avoided |
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7,865 aMWsaved making efficiency the NW’s second largest energy resource |