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Connecticut's Energy Efficiency Partners Program
General
The Connecticut Energy Efficiency Partner Program is a new initiative that will offer funding for the purchase and deployment of enhanced demand-side management technologies to help consumers conserve electricity and reduce demand in Connecticut.
Section 94 of Public Act 07-242, An Act Concerning Electricity and Energy Efficiency requires the DPUC to establish guidelines for the administration of the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Partners Program and authorizes the DPUC to spend up to $60 million annually to fund projects that will reduce Connecticut's peak electric demand.
DPUC Proceeding
The DPUC has established a formal proceeding to establish the guidelines for administering the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Partners Program, DPUC Docket No. 07-06-59, and seeks input from the energy community and public at large in designing this program.
Section 94 of Public Act 07-242 states:
The Connecticut Electric Efficiency Partner Program means the coordinated effort among the Department of Public Utility Control, persons and entities providing enhanced demand-side management technologies, and electric consumers to conserve electricity and reduce demand in Connecticut through the purchase and deployment of energy efficient technologies.
Enhanced demand-side management technologies means demand-side management solutions, customer-side emergency dispatchable generation resources, customer-side renewable energy generation, load shifting technologies and conservation and load management technologies that reduce electric distribution company customers' electric demand, and high efficiency natural gas and oil boilers and furnaces.
Connecticut Electric Efficiency Partner means an electric distribution company customer who acquires an enhanced demand-side management technology or a person, other than an electric distribution company, that provides enhanced demand-side management technologies to electric distribution company customers.
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