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

• Stakeholder industry group activities, such as first time homebuyers seminars
• Public outreach by “Team Terasen”
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• Support for conservation education within the school system
• Energy Forum
• Conservation communications, as outlined in Appendix 8 in the Application.”
(Exhibit B‐2, BCUC 1.28.1)
The entire proposed $13.835 expenditure for the CEO Program Area is taken by the Conservation
communications initiative of the CEO Program. $11.550 million or 83 percent of the $13.835
million is allocated to Mass Media Advertising and Production over the three year expenditure
period. (Exhibit B‐1, Appendix 8)
Terasen did not submit any details or expenditure estimates for the first four program initiatives
described above.
Terasen proposes to attribute the CEO expenditures in each year equally between the Residential
and Commercial Energy Efficiency programs, with none of the CEO expenditures being attributed to
other Program Areas such as Fuel Switching or Trade Relations. (Exhibit B‐1, p. 54)
Terasen states: “EEC expenditures will be efficient, with non‐incentive costs not exceeding 50% of
the expenditure in a given year.” (Exhibit B‐1, p. 47, #3) Terasen does not provide any further
evidence supporting the implication that, merely by not exceeding 50 percent of the total, non‐
incentive, expenditures, the balance represents efficiency in expenditures.
Intervenor Positions
BCOAPO submitted that “The Application’s education and outreach component is
disproportionately large, and inappropriately treated as an asset to be amorti[s]ed over 20 years.”
(BCOAPO Argument, p. 14)