Work Group #6 will look at three key policy issues:
- Decoupling and (for Investor-Owned Utilities) Efficiency-Related Earnings Opportunities. This seeks to sever the link between retail energy sales and utility’s recovery of their authorized fixed costs in an effort to eliminate a financial disincentive to promoting energy efficiency improvements through programs and/or mandatory standards.
- Direct Application Renewables. To what extent are direct application renewable technologies (such as solar panels) considered energy efficiency and such be funded through energy efficiency programs.
- Load Management/Smart Grid. Determine what parts of load management and Smart Grid are in and out of the Taskforce work.
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