FEI-FEVI 2010 EEC Report filed March 31, 2011 - FortisBC

FORTISBC ENERGY INC. AND FORTISBC ENERGY (VANCOUVER ISLAND) INC.
2010 ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION ANNUAL REPORT
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a suite of energy efficiency measures installed.
• Make energy efficiency more accessible to low income customers
by addressing the key barriers to energy efficiency in this sector (i.e.
affordability, availability, and awareness).
• Provide energy savings for FEI/FEVI.
• Provide low income customers with the opportunity to reduce their
energy consumption, energy bills, and GHG emissions.
• Create a culture of conservation through increased knowledge and
awareness of conservation behaviours.
Implementation
The primary administrator from the utility perspective is BC Hydro; however,
the Companies will qualify participants that are the Companies’ customers.
The visits to customers’ homes to perform energy assessments and retrofits
are performed by independent delivery agents.
Prospects for the program are identified and engaged through working
collaboratively with social housing providers and program delivery agents.
Recipients of the ESKs are also prospects for participation in this program if
they meet the minimum energy consumption criteria.
The intention is to perform a billing analysis of participants in the ECAP
program once there are enough participants with minimum of one year postinstallation
consumption.
6.4.3.1.2 2011 ECAP Forecasted Program Results
The ECAP program is expected to launch by the end of Q2 2011; thus, figures shown below in
Table 6-11 are estimates based on six months of the program being available in the market.
The TRC score of 0.6 includes the full costs of the program including enabling costs such as
carbon monoxide detectors, ventilation fans, and many costs that are unique to delivering a
direct install low income program. These unique costs include such items as hiring contractors
to perform the retrofitting work, costs of training the contractors on working in low income homes
(sensitivity training), and ensuring contractors are well educated on the utilities’ safety
procedures and policies. These enabling costs and unique program costs have a detrimental
effect on the programs TRC; however, they are critical to implementing this important program.
This program is another example of work that needs to be performed in order to reach our
province’s carbon reduction goals, but is ineffectively evaluated using conventional TRC
requirements.
The Ministry of Energy and Mines Low Income Partnership funding, described in the previous
section, specifically directs the Companies to contribute $1.5 million towards BC Hydro’s low
income programming by March 2012 and this contribution is exempt from TRC requirements as
agreed by the government. Therefore, in 2011, the Companies will apply at least a portion of the
Low Income Partnership funding against the ECAP program costs. The program forecast shown
below is reflective of the full costs of the program as this best illustrates the actual expected
costs of the program.
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