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PG&E

 

Energy

 

Efficiency

 

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Demand

 

Response

 

Programs

 

 

Appendix F‐1. PG&E’s Demand Response Programs (2010) 

Residential Programs 

Residential SmartAC. PG&E will install a free SmartAC device that will be connected to a customer’s air conditioner  (AC). Between May 1 and October 31, if there is an energy supply emergency, the SmartAC device will receive a  signal to use slightly less power to avoid a power interruption 

Commercial, Industrial, and Agricultural Programs 

Peak Day Pricing (E‐PDP). Allows participants to lower their business' electric bills by shifting or reducing electricity  during critical peak summer afternoons (noon to 6 p.m. ). Participants receive day‐ahead notification and program  takes place only 12 days during each summer season. Will be the default option for customers larger than 200 kW.

SmartAC. PG&E will install a free SmartAC thermostat to help manage heating and cooling needs year round. If a  business has an energy management system in place, PG&E will install a free SmartAC “switch.” If there is an energy  supply emergency, between May 1 and October 31, the SmartAC device will receive a signal to use slightly less  power to help avoid power interruptions.  

Base Interruptible Program (E‐BIP). Pays participants to reduce their load to a pre‐determined level when the CAISO  calls a load curtailment notice. Must commit to curtail at least 15% of average monthly load or a minimum of 100 kW,  whichever is greater. Two options available. 

Demand Bidding Program (E‐DBP). Allows participants to submit bids for a proposed level of load reduction at an  offered price for each curtailment event. Participants must commit to reduce a minimum of at least 50 kW. Bids  may be requested on a 'Day‐Ahead' basis when an CAISO's Alert notice is issued for the next day or when the  CAISO's forecasts a day‐ahead peak demand of 43,000 MW or greater. 

Scheduled Load Reduction Program (E‐SLRP). Participants identify one to three four‐hour time periods during the  week when they are willing to curtail their electric load. Must commit to curtail at least 15% of their average monthly  load or a minimum of 100 kW, whichever is greater. Must curtail electric load once each week for each period they  choose during the summer season, June 1 through September 30. Loads cannot be shifted to an on‐peak period of  another day. 

Optional Binding Mandatory Curtailment Plan (OBMC).Lets participants avoid curtailments by implementing load  reductions of 5% to 15% increments on their entire circuit or dedicated substation during rotating outages. 

Aggregators Programs. Pools resources of a group of customers to achieve higher demand reductions with unique  incentive structures. Acting as intermediaries between businesses and PG&E, aggregators offer demand response  program options not available through PG&E. Aggregators are independent third parties authorized to work with  PG&E to reduce the state's energy usage during periods of peak demand, high wholesale‐electrical prices, system 

constraints, and emergencies. 

Source: Flex Your Power, 2010; PG&E 2010b.  

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Residential

PGE21001 Home Energy Efficiency

Surveys Program The program provides customers with information to help them become familiar with ways to control and reduce energy and water usage in their homes by offering customers up to four options in multiple languages including an action plan for implementation. The program also provides survey results to enable participants to understand how their energy use varies throughout the year and how their household compares with similar households

PGE21002 Residential Lighting Incentive

Program for Basic CFLs This program provides instant rebate on CFLs. PGE21003 Advanced Consumer Lighting

Program This program offers discounts to reduce the cost of energy efficient lighting products, introduces energy efficient lighting products to the market, and strives to influence future purchasing behaviors of customers. An array of product types, models, and technologies are offered, including specialty CFLs, light emitting diodes (LED), cold cathode, and high-efficiency incandescent. PGE21004 Home Energy Efficiency

Rebates Rebates for clothes/dish washers, refrigerators, water heaters, lighting, furnaces, boilers, insulation, and motors. PGE21005 Appliance Recycling Program Recycle freezers, refrigerators, and room AC and get up to $35 rebate. PGE21006 Business and Consumer

Electronics Program PG&E works with retailers and manufacturers to bring the highest-efficiency desktop computers, monitors and TVs to market and make them readily available to consumers at key retailer locations. To easily identify these products, just look for the PG&E and ENERGY STAR® stickers. PGE21007 Multifamily Energy Efficiency

Rebates Program MFEERP provides rebates for a broad list of energy efficiency measures that can be installed in apartment dwelling units and in the common areas of apartment and condominium complexes and mobile home parks

PGE21008 Whole House Performance

Program (1) This program is aimed at delivering comprehensive improvement packages tailored to the needs of each existing home and its owner. This program builds on PG&E training on green home energy retrofits provided to contractors through our Energy Training Centers. Specifically, WHPP solicits, screens, and trains qualified residential repair and renovation and HVAC contractors to assemble capable contracting teams and perform whole-house diagnostics, propose a comprehensive improvement package, and complete the improvements. The program also includes marketing activities to help educate customers on program services and provide additional customer leads to trained contractors PGE2176 California New Homes

Multifamily The program implementer’s approach includes marketing, recruitment, targeted education of design professionals, plan checks, Title 24 reviews, energy efficiency design assistance, plus one-stop coordination with builders and HERS Raters throughout the design, construction, verification, and rebate submittal process. The approach has been noted for maintaining an extremely low dropout rate among participants. In short, HMG offers a turn-key program solution for the multifamily new construction market.

PGE2177 Enhance Time Delay Relay The ETDR program will deliver reliable and persistent electric savings and demand reduction by offering technical assistance and financial incentives for the installation of energy efficiency measures to qualifying customers served by PG&E. The program serves multi- and single family residential customers in climate zones 11, 12, and 13, improving the sensible efficiency of air conditioners PGE2178 Energy Star Manufactured

Homes This program promotes the construction of new manufactured homes that comply with ENERGY STAR® standards by encouraging manufacturers to go beyond federal Department of Housing and Urban Development specifications. Targeted measures include high efficiency and right size HVAC systems. The goal is to increase the efficiency of the whole home while moving the industry

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PGE2179 Direct Install for Manufactured

and Mobile Homes In California, beginning January 1, 2010, new ENERGY STAR manufactured homes sold and connected to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) service will qualify for a $500 per home rebate paid to the home seller, either the retailer or community owner

Commercial

PGE2181 Air Care Plus AirCare Plus is a comprehensive rooftop HVAC efficiency program specifically designed to garner savings in one of the most hard to reach markets: small and medium size commercial customers

PGE2182 Boiler Energy Efficiency

Program The Commercial Industrial Boiler Efficiency Program provides no-cost technical services and cash incentives and rebates to identify and implement energy efficiency improvements for boiler systems

PGE2183 Comprehensive Retail Energy Management

PGE2184 EE Partnership for California State-Leased Facilities

PGE2185 EnergySmart Grocer Helps grocers upgrade equipment and streamline operations to get the highest possible energy savings

PGE2186 Enhanced Automation

Initiative Pays large commercial and institutional customers to improve energy efficiency of existing building automation systems (BAS) or energy management systems (EMS).

PGE2187 Monitoring-Based Persistence

Commissioning MBPCx is an approach for identifying and correcting performance deficiencies in a building’s energy-using systems on a continuous basis. It combines standard retrocommissioning practices that are proven to achieve substantial energy savings with continuous monitoring to ensure that the energy savings persist over time.

PGE2188 Retrocommissioning Services

and Incentive Program PG&E will provide diagnostic, engineering and cost estimating resources to identify and analyze potential energy saving projects from retrocommissioning measures. Other project ideas, such as retrofit, demand response and self-generation will be identified.

PGE2189 Cool Controls Plus Provides lodging owners with free, energy-saving retrofits designed to eliminate wasteful use of air-conditioning and heating units.

PGE2190 Lodgingsavers Comprehensive energy efficiency retrofit program that delivers multi-measure comprehensive retrofits and Retrocommissioning (RCx) to small, medium and large lodging facilities in PG&E’s service area.

PGE2191 Medical Building Tune-Up Building retrocommissioning services and energy efficiency improvement assistance for recommended cost-effective energy and demand reduction strategies in hospitals and healthcare facilities.

PGE2192 Campus Housing Efficiency

Solutions The program will initially focus on identifying opportunities within the larger campuses in PG&E’s service area in order to address the issue that a small percentage of campuses is responsible for the largest share of energy con-sumption and peak demand in the higher education sector.

PGE2193 School Energy Efficiency The program offers public K-12 school districts a variety of services and incentives designed to improve the energy performance of school facilities PGE2195 Energy Savers

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PGE2197 Small Business Commercial

Comprehensive Cool Biz Program is designed to provide comprehensive energy efficiency measures to small and medium sized commercial businesses with refrigera-tion. The Cool Biz Program offers incentive levels which typically cover on average 75% of the project cost. In some cases, the program pays 100% of the cost of the project. This allows for short payback periods and low measure installation costs for customers. This target market is expected to encompass convenience stores, gas station convenience stores, independent grocers, butcher shops/meat markets, fish markets, small independent restaurants/cafes, drugstores, liquor stores, retail bakeries, caterers, cafeterias and assisted living facilities. These facilities are defined as the Retail, Ag and Food Processing and Hospitality market sectors.

PGE2198 DCCCP Quest DCCCP provides technical assistance and financial incentives to reduce the amount of electricity required for data center cooling. The program targets energy efficiency improvements that provide significant cost savings and are easy to implement without interrupting normal data center operations. Customers enrolled in the program receive a thorough data center cooling operations assessment performed by qualified engineering professionals at no cost in addition to financial incentives for implementing efficiency improvements. PGE2199 Energy-Efficiency Parking

Garage The Energy Efficient Parking Garage Program is designed to fill a niche within the PG&E program portfolio with simple technology, quick installation, and a non-abrasive application/participation process, that will provide fast and plenti-ful energy savings within the program years of 2010 - 2012. EEPG seeks out any Above Ground Parking Garage within the PG&E territory and will offer an incentive of $0.05/kWh and $100/kW for either T8 Fluorescent or Induction lamp retrofit.

PGE2200 Furniture Store Energy

Efficiency The program works with retail furniture stores in the PG&E service territory to improve energy efficiency. This is done with a mix of no-cost HVAC and light-ing measures which are designed to reduce demand and improve the function-ing of your current HVAC and lightfunction-ing systems.

PGE2201 High Performance Office

Lighting Lighting program implemented by Sylvania lighting PGE2202 LED Accelerator Lighting program implemented by energy solutions PGE2204 Smartvent for Energy-Efficient

Kitchens Commercial Kitchen ventilation system program

PGE2205 Casino Green The program provides Native American-owned casinos and other non-residential facilities a comprehensive suite of rebated, energy efficiency retrofits. This program is specific to tribally owned casinos within the PG&E service territory. PGE2206 Healthcare Energy Efficiency

Program HEEP offers complete audit and project identification, in addition to cash incen-tives for completing energy-saving retrofits of existing equipment or systems in hospitals and medical office buildings.

PGE2207 Healthcare Gas Efficiency Program

PGE2208 Hospitality Steam Systems PGE2209 Ozone Laundry Energy

Efficiency OLEEP provides assistance and support to the customer throughout the ozone laundry system installation process. The customer does not have to go through the Customized Retrofit Incentive Program in order to receive the $1 per therm incentive

PGE2210 Cool Schools HVAC program implemented by Trane company PGE2211 Small Commercial Boiler

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PGE2212 California Preschool Energy

Efficiency Program CPEEP replaces older, energy-intensive equipment at eligible child care centers with energy–efficient upgrades that can reduce operating costs. Eligible licensed center-based child care facilities include Head Start, state-contracted and private centers served by Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric. PGE2213 K-12 Private Schools and

Colleges Audit Retro The program works with school administrators to improve the energy efficiency of school facilities. This is done with a mix of no-cost and low-cost measures that improve the operation of three main energy systems: HVAC, lighting and controls.

PGE2214 EE Entertainment Centers The program will deliver reliable and persistent gas and electric savings, demand reduction and demand response opportunities by offering facility audits, imple-mentation of low cost/ no-cost measures, installation support services, and financial incentives for the installation of energy efficiency measures to qualify-ing customers served by PG&E throughout its territory. The program targets the commercial customer segment, specifically entertainment facilities

Industrial

PGE2220 Aim Compressed Air Efficiency PG&E offers qualifying facilities cash rebates of $.10 per kWh for verifiable energy savings, up to two-thirds of your project implementation costs. The AIM Program can reduce already short payback times for many energy savings measures from twenty months to as little as six months.

PGE2221 California Wastewater Process

Optimization Expands the current program and focuses on continuing to bring significant energy efficiency savings to wastewater treatment plants, and may include fresh water distribution systems. The program will continue to provide facility audits, engineering assistance, project management support, and incentives based on potential energy savings

PGE2222 Energy Efficiency Services for

Oil Production The program is targeted toward the hard-to-reach independent oil producers in California that are struggling to control costs and remain competitive. Independent oil producers are those operations that are not owned by a major oil refiner like Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, or Shell. The main objective of the program is to assist these producers to become more energy-efficient and productive. PGE2223 Heavy Industry Energy

Efficiency Program This Program identifies and facilitates the implementation of major process-oriented and other energy-efficiency upgrades for Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) heavy industry customers. Customers that install energy efficient systems and equipment will receive incentives based on the annual kWh or therm savings achieved.

PGE2224 Industrial Compressed Air Compressed Air Systems Optimization PGE2226 Laboratory Airflow and Fume

Hood Control Systems This program introduces energy efficiency to the biotech, pharmaceutical, edu-cational and scientific laboratories, one of California's fastest growing economic drivers. Laboratory buildings generally have the highest energy density per square footage of any type of commercial building. Lab recommissioning is a highly specific skill, and this program complements PG&E's commercial RCx program which addresses more traditional commercial facilities.

PGE2227 Cement Production and

Distribution Energy Efficiency CIEEP is designed to help industrial customers identify, quantify and implement energy efficiency /savings opportunities that exist in your various plant operat-ing systems.

PGE2228 Industrial Recommissioning

Program The program offers retro-commissioning services for large compressed air systems and other industrial processes and systems. Large compressed air systems of 500 hp and larger are eligible. In addition to the retro-commissioning service, the program also offers an incentive to help offset the cost of the recommended improvements

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Agricultural

PGE21035 Pump Efficiency Services

Program The Agricultural Pumping Efficiency Program (APEP or the "Program") is an educational and incentive rebate program developed to improve overall pumping plant efficiency and to encourage energy conservation.

PGE2230 Dairy Energy Efficiency

Program The Dairy Energy Efficiency Program offers cash incentives on variable speed drives, plate coolers, compressor heat recovery units, scroll compressors, lighting, time clocks, ventilation, and premium efficiency motors to dairy customers of Pacific Gas & Electric Company.

PGE2231 Industrial Refrigeration

Performance Plus The IRPP provides energy efficiency analysis, implementation and monitoring for facilities with large refrigeration systems PGE2232 Light exChange Program The LCP is taking an innovate approach toward encouraging agricultural

customers to replace their existing mercury vapor yard lights with more energy efficient high pressure sodium yard lights at no cost! This program is a special energy savings service designed for qualifying PG&E customers that live in a rural agricultural community with a population of 50,000 or less.

PGE2233 Wine Industry Efficiency

Solutions The WIES Program provides energy efficiency engineering services and incen-tives to qualifying wineries that receive gas and/ or electric service from PG&E. The focus of the WIES Program is to achieve lower energy use and increased sustainability in the wine industry.

PGE2234 Comprehensive Food Process Audit and Resource Efficiency Program

Global Energy Partners (GEP) can help PG&E food and beverage manufacturers save energy and secure cash incentives under this third party incentive Program. The Program is designed to help offset the cost of qualifying measures that will save energy and/or improve the process efficiency. The Program offers focused assessments, on-site assistance and financial incentives to cost-effectively implement the Program's measures including energy-efficient natural gas and electric equipment. These measures address every major gas and electric end-use in food processing facilities and are technically proven, but often under-utilized by the food processing market

PGE2235 Dairy Industry Resource

Advantage Program The program is available to qualifying large dairies that receive gas and/or electric service from PG&E. The focus of the DIRA Program is to achieve lower energy usage and increased sustainability in the dairy industry. The program offers unbiased technical service, education and support though a tailored energy management approach to facility staff to identify, evaluate and promote the installation of energy efficiency measures to reduce the operating expenses and improve the efficiency of facility operations.

PGE2236 Process Wastewater Treatment EM Program for Ag Food Processing

New Construction

PGE21041 Residential New Construction This program targets new residential housing using both PG&E and third party industry specialists to facilitate delivery of a portfolio of energy efficiency ser-vices. It will include statewide elements as well as elements specifically targeted to the residential new construction developers and contractors in PG&E’s service area.

PGE21042 Savings By Design SBD will provide the nonresidential new construction industry with a broad palette of technical and financial resources to aid them in designing new facilities to the most cost-effective energy and resource efficiency standards. SBD will also tailor current marketing and delivery efforts to further penetrate into a wider array of market and customer segments.

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PGE2178 Energy Star Manufactured

Homes See Residential Programs

Cross-Cutting & Other

PGE2112 Zero Net Pilots The Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Pilot Program is a specific local non-resource program that supports the Strategic Plan by initiating research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects around ZNE buildings. The ZNE Pilot Program aligns with the implementation plan and timeline of the Strategic Plan, aiming to “push” the development of long-term (2016 – 2030) cost-effective technologies to the market while “pulling” customers towards the adoption of long-term advanced energy efficiency (EE) technologies and practices. PGE2114 On-Bill Financing Schedule E-OBF is an On-Bill Financing (OBF) loan program providing zero

percent (0%) interest financing to qualified customers towards the purchase and installation of new energy efficient measures or equipment at the customer’s premises.

PGE2105 Lighting Market

Transformation The Lighting Market Transformation (LMT) program addresses the statewide IOU plans to bring about the required transformation of lighting markets within the state. The program has set three broad goals:

1. Formalize a process by which the IOUs can rapidly introduce advanced lighting solutions and emerging technologies to the marketplace, improve existing lighting programs, and develop new program strategies;

2. Provide better access to education and information regarding existing and emerging lighting technologies for all market actors;

3. Formalize a process by which the IOUs can determine when a specific lighting technology has become sufficiently mainstreamed and no longer requires IOU program support.

PGE2240 Builder Energy Code Training Since 1995 this dynamic program has helped the building industry and code officials keep up with changes in the energy codes. The program improves compliance with Title-24 through classroom, on-site, and webinar trainings, which focuses on the most comprehensive and cost-effective ways to bring a home up to and above the CA Energy Code requirements

PGE2241 Green Building Technical

Support Services Promotes Green Building through education and outreach as a core strategy to achieve greater energy efficiency in new and existing homes. Trains custom builders, remodelers, and affordable housing developers on Green Building techniques

PGE2242 Cool Cash Cool Cash is a third party program offering comprehensive facility audits and financial incentives for energy efficiency measures installation at qualifying commercial and industrial facilities, concentrating in the Central Valley. The program promotes the introduction of a proven energy efficiency technology – indirect evaporative pre-cooler - that uses indirect evaporation to pre cool incoming makeup air streams, and is the only measure eligible for incentives. Program audits and other activities promote comprehensive energy efficiency upgrades across a broad spectrum of technologies

Government Partnerships

PGE2125 Local Government Energy Action Resource (LGEAR)

PGE2125 Innovator Pilot Program New initiative to support local governments that demonstrate new, non-traditional pilot approaches to reducing energy use and GHG

PGE 2125 Green Communities The program helps local governments address the Strategic Plan goals; support includes tools to provide energy use data for local GHG inventories and assist-ance in developing energy or GHG action plans.

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PGE2126 Institutional/Statewide

Government Partnerships Continues joint agreements among IOUs and several state entities: California Community Colleges (CCC), University of California (UC)/California State University (CSU), State of California, and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

PGE2131 City of San Joaquin Energy

Watch Pacific Gas & Electric has partnered with Intergy, San Joaquin County, and the cities of Manteca, Tracy, and Lathrop to provide a targeted energy efficiency campaign in South San Joaquin County. With the San Joaquin Energy Watch partnership, PG&E has expanded outreach and energy efficiency funding for the businesses, residents, and city facilities of San Joaquin County.

Codes & Standards

PGE21071 C&S Advocacy and Case

Studies: Building Codes Case studies in support of Title 24 rulemaking PGE21072 C&S Advocacy and Case

Studies: Appliance Standards Case studies in support of Title 20 appliance standards PGE21073 C&S Compliance

Enhancements Training Training to enhance codes and standards compliance PGE21074 C&S Coordination (Statewide,

EE Programs, External Entities)

PGE21075 C&S Reach Codes Reach Codes is a new area of focus in the 2010-2012 funding cycle. In addition to mandatory minimum-level codes, the Codes and Standards program develops and supports the creation and implementation of “Reach Codes” that exceed minimum state code requirements and may be adopted voluntarily by local juris-dictions or agencies. These Reach Codes provide an opportunity to test the effectiveness of increasing the stringency of existing codes at a local level basis

PGE21076 C&S Other

Emerging Technology Programs

PGE 2108 Total Emerging

Technologies (ET) Programs PG&E's Emerging Technologies (ET) program has evaluated and assessed new and innovative technologies for more than 30 years. To accelerate its efforts to develop performance enhancing and cost-saving energy-efficient products for our customers, the ET program is now offering additional incen-tives for customers who host a technology assessment at their facilities. PGE21081 Assessments Technology assessments provide an in-depth report on performance

enhance-ments and cost savings at the facility as a result of the technology installation. Host sites provide access to their facility for PG&E assessment activity. PGE21082 Scaled Field Placement

PGE21083 Demonstration/Showcasing PGE21084 Market and Behavioral Studies PGE21085 Technology Supply Side

Efforts

PGE21086 Incubation

PGE21087 Zero Net Energy Lab/Demo

Home (Capital Rrq) Operate the ZNE Demonstration Home and Laboratory (projects initiated by Emerging Technologies Team to optimize design, supply, and awareness of ZNE technologies); provide assistance and cost sharing of advanced EE mea-sures to designers/developers of cutting-edge homes and commercial buildings; create case studies of home, commercial buildings, and district heating and

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WE&T Programs

PGE2109 Total Workforce and

Education Training Specific workforce development efforts supporting prescriptive and performance programs include the following: CEC/EDD: California Clean Energy Workforce Training Program, other community college programs, third party programs, IOU trainings

PGE21091 WE&T Centergies PGE21092 WE&T Connections PGE21093 WE&T Strategic Plan

Implementation

HVAC

PGE21061 Upstream HVAC Equipment

Incentive The Program provides incentives in the form of cash to qualifying distributors (“Distributors”) for selling qualifying high efficiency HVAC equipment to nonres-idential PG&E electric customers. The two goals of the Program are to encourage increased stocking and upselling (i.e., explaining the technical benefits to cus-tomers and calculating return on investment) of high-efficiency HVAC equipment. PGE21062 HVAC Technologies and

System Diagnostics Advocacy Implemented by the Western Cooling Efficiency Center at UC Davis, this pro-gram provides higher levels of HVAC efficiency in equipment design, installa-tion, operainstalla-tion, and maintenance; improves quality assurance throughout the HVAC supply chain; provides workforce education and training; and supports improved compliance with current and future codes and standards.

PGE21063 Commercial Quality

Installation This program applies to installations of packaged HVAC systems with a rated capacity of up to 760,000 BTU/H. A financial incentive is available to contrac-tors who complete a system installation according to the appropriate industry standards. Qualifying contractors are actively recruited into the program by offering certain non-incentive services providing benefits such as co-branded customer marketing materials, and diagnostic equipment..

PGE21064 Energy Star Residential

Quality Installation Program This program applies to central air systems and air-source heat pump systems installation with a rated capacity up to 65,000 BTU/H. A financial incentive is available to homeowners who have a system installed in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency HVAC Quality Installation Guidelines. Home-owners will also receive an ENEGRY STAR® certificate for their qualifying installation. Contractor training on quality installation practices is available. PGE21065 Residential Quality

Maintenance and Commercial Quality Maintenance and Commercial Quality Maintenance Development

This program focuses on energy and demand savings achieved through the regular application of quality maintenance (QM). The program attempts to quantify the potential savings, and develop through a full industry vetting, a QM program focused on comprehensive and continuously improving Operation and Mainte-nance activities to provide customers with a high return on investment. This program focuses on both residential and commercial customers.

PGE21066 Workforce Education and

Training This program offers industry specific education and training opportunities targeted at all levels of the HVAC value chain. Prior to initiating the program, a comprehensive needs-assessment will be made to determine industry skill gaps, identify opportunities for collaboration with existing HVAC education and training infrastructure, and implement recommendations needed to close gaps. The HVAC WE&T effort will seek to influence quality inclined contractors, installers, and technicians to deliver premium services to their customers. Low Income Energy Efficiency The LIEE program provides no-cost weatherization services to low-income

households who meet the CARE guidelines. Services provided include attic insulation, energy efficient refrigerators, energy efficient furnaces, weather stripping, caulking, low-flow showerheads, water heater blankets, and door and building envelope repairs which reduce air infiltration.

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