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
15 THE COMPANYS’ EEC PRINCIPLES
In the original EEC Application, the Companies laid out a number of EEC principles that are
intended to guide our EEC activity. This section revisits those principles and discusses how the
Companies’ EEC activity completed in 2010 and planned activity for 2011 meets these
principles.
1. Programs will have a goal of being universal, offering access to energy efficiency and
conservation for all residential and commercial customers, including low income customers
through the DSM for Affordable Housing initiative.
• As can be seen by the significant variety of programs described in this report, the
Companies have implemented EEC initiatives aimed at all customers including
residential, commercial, industrial, and low income.
2. Wherever possible, programs will be uniform, so that customers in one part of the service
territories of the FortisBC Energy Utilities have access to the same programs as customers
throughout the service territories.
• Programs described in this report are available to customers in all the
Companies’ service territories, with the following exceptions:
o The Companies do not currently have funding approval for EEC activity
for interruptible industrial customers on Vancouver Island; and
o The Companies do not currently have funding approval for EEC activity
for customers in Whistler.
• The vast majority of customers, however, have access to all the programs for
which their rate class is eligible, and it is the intent of the Companies to include
funding for interruptible industrial customers on Vancouver Island and for
customers in Whistler in the next EEC funding request in the 2012 – 2013
Revenue Requirements Application.
3. EEC expenditures will be efficient, with non-incentive costs not exceeding 50% of the
expenditure in a given year.
• The Companies’ expenditures in 2010 are aligned with this principle: incentive
expenditures were approximately $11.5 million and non-incentive expenditures
were approximately $6.2 million.
4. Program results will be analyzed on a portfolio-wide basis.
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