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

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FORTISBC ENERGY INC. AND FORTISBC ENERGY (VANCOUVER ISLAND) INC.<br />

<strong>2010</strong> ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION ANNUAL REPORT<br />

activities the Companies undertook in <strong>2010</strong> are listed in Table 11-2 below along with a<br />

reference to where their respective description and attributed costs can be found in the <strong>Report</strong>.<br />

Tankless Water Heater<br />

Consumer Feedback<br />

TLC Program Participant<br />

Survey<br />

Condensing DHW Market<br />

Transformation<br />

Efficient Boiler Program<br />

Evaluation<br />

On-farm Energy<br />

Assessments<br />

MURB Remediation Study<br />

EnerGuide Home Retrofit<br />

Study<br />

Energy Modeling<br />

Retrofit Energy Modelling in<br />

support of LiveSmart BC<br />

project<br />

Bill Insert and Bill<br />

Messaging Research Study<br />

Contractor Qualitative<br />

<strong>Report</strong><br />

Table 11-2: <strong>2010</strong> <strong>EEC</strong> Research and Evaluation Activities<br />

Study Description<br />

Conservation Potential<br />

Review<br />

Residential Retrofit Market<br />

Evaluation<br />

To gain insight about user experience of tankless water heaters to<br />

inform program development.<br />

Provide customer feedback on program satisfaction and understand<br />

prevalence of furnace upgrades through servicing.<br />

Develop market transformation strategy for the introduction of 0.80<br />

EF DHW technologies.<br />

$18 Residential - 3.4.2.1<br />

$15 Residential - 3.4.1.2<br />

$20 Residential - 3.4.3.2<br />

Analysis of the natural gas savings of the Efficient Boiler program. $43 Commercial - 4.4.2.1<br />

Energy assessments at 25 separate sites to establish how<br />

agricultural producers use energy.<br />

A comprehensive rehabilitation study of problem strata buildings<br />

including an analysis of energy use and conservation strategies.<br />

Develop home performance overview of existing residential housing<br />

stock based on aggregate EnerGuide data from LiveSmart BC.<br />

Develop common archetype for utilities to develop economic models<br />

for LiveSmart BC offer development.<br />

Common model for <strong>FEI</strong> and electric utilities for cost benefit analysis<br />

for LiveSmart BC offer development.<br />

Determine readership level and understand if certain messages<br />

garner more attention from readers than other messages by our<br />

residential customers. Will finish study in <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

To gain insights around energy efficiency program awareness,<br />

preferred communication methods, and training needs.<br />

Examines available technologies and determines their conservation<br />

potential.<br />

Examines consumer awareness and brand awareness of retrofit<br />

rebate programs in the province of BC.<br />

Expenditure<br />

(000s)<br />

Total $558<br />

$55 Commercial - 4.4.4<br />

$10 Commercial - 4.4.3.6<br />

$20 Joint Initiatives - 7.4.2.1<br />

$3 Joint Initiatives - 7.4.2.1<br />

$5 Joint Initiatives - 7.4.2.1<br />

The costs associated with enabling activities and <strong>EEC</strong> portfolio level research studies are listed<br />

in Table 11-3 below. This is followed by a short description of each of these studies.<br />

SECTION 11: ENABLING ACTIVITIES Page 224<br />

$10<br />

$14<br />

$326<br />

$19<br />

Reference<br />

Conservation Education<br />

and Outreach - 8.2.1.1<br />

Enabling Activities -<br />

11.2.1.3<br />

Enabling Activities -<br />

11.2.1.3<br />

2009 <strong>EEC</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />

Appendix D. P 50

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