Conservation achievements2008-09 Utility Conservation Achievements Report
October 2009
The 2008-09 survey represents the activities of 127 utilities serving just over ninety-nine percent of the region’s retail electricity sales. In aggregate, the region acquired 235 average megawatts of savings in 2008. This far exceeds the Fifth Plan’s target of 145 average megawatts for the year. As a result of their collective efforts, the region’s utilities, the ETO, NEEA and Bonneville have accomplished the Fifth Plan’s five-year regional goal of 700 average megawatts in just four years.
| See the 2008-09 survey report and press release. |
Background
In 1996, the steering committee of the Comprehensive Review of the Northwest Energy System recommended that the Regional Technical Forum (RTF) track progress in meeting conservation and renewable energy goals.
Every year the RTF conducts a survey of the region's utilities to report their conservation achievements.
No effort has been made to evaluate the methodology used by the utilities in calculating their savings, nor was a particular accounting method specified for reporting costs. As a result, the cost and energy savings attributed to measures by individual utilities are based on their own accounting practices and energy savings estimates.