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Optimizing RTF Budget in Regional Context: Strategies and Benefits

This document outlines the strategies for optimizing the Regional Technology Forum (RTF) budget through a comprehensive independent review of savings and costs. It highlights that utility evaluators drive most of the workload, while the RTF primarily reviews external submissions. The benefits of delegating work to the RTF are discussed, along with examples of EM&V budget inclusions from various utilities. Furthermore, it elaborates on how the RTF develops its work plan based on regional needs, scalability, and the prioritization of reviews, ensuring effective program implementation.

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Optimizing RTF Budget in Regional Context: Strategies and Benefits

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  1. Scaling the RTF Budget

  2. Regional Context: • Region seeks to apply quality independent review of savings & cost as broadly as possible • Utility evaluators do most of the work • RTF primarily reviews others’ work • Others’ work harvested for RTF-Approved UES & Methods • Amountof work is independent of portion delegated to RTF • Benefits of work delegated to RTF :

  3. RTF as Fraction of Region Evaluation • EM&V budgets inclusions vary. Examples below: • Avista includes impact and process evaluation, not regulatory cost • Bonneville includes impact & process evaluation, not planning or research • Energy Trust includes planning, impact and process evaluation, not NEEA • Tacoma includes planning, research, impact & process evaluation, plus NEEA

  4. How RTF Builds Workplan • Measures w/ Obvious Regional Scope • Large Program Savings (CFL) • High Unit Count (Appliances) • Deployed widely across funders • Most NEEA Initiatives • Large New (Ductless HP, HPWH) • Long-Standing (Res Wx) RTF-Identified Known Quantity & Urgency Predictable Volume & Schedulable • Measures for Specific Needs • Individual utility driven • Vendor-driven (Grocery, DEI) • Proposers develop data/analysis • Some aid-based where proposers lack resources to develop data/analysis Proposer Initiated ?? Quantity & Timing: Hard to Predict Volume Schedule by Advanced Agenda Request • Other Technical Needs • Council Plan Development • Analytics (Marginal Line Losses, Direct Gas) Requests

  5. Budget Categories & Scalability Scale by selection, pacing & prioritizing reviews. Limited by staff throughput & Forum’s ability to digest in 10-12 meetings per year. Scale by selection & scope of RTF purview. Relatively fixed

  6. How RTF Executes Work

  7. In-Year Adjustments to Workplan & Budget

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