Residential Appliances: Partnering With Water Utilities

December 07, 2010
1:30-3:00pm Eastern
(10:30am-12:00pm Pacific)

Facilitator: Eileen Eaton, Program Manager, CEE
Experts: Allison Bard, PG&E; Laura Wilson, Puget Sound Energy
Discussants: Christine Bunch, Seattle City Light; Billie Fisher, Seattle City Light; Al Bandazy, Snohomish PUD

What's It About?

Efficiency program administrators are always looking for opportunities to enhance the success of their programs, particularly with increasing savings targets and rigorous cost effectiveness tests. As a result, several CEE members have been partnering with local water utilities to leverage their resources and provide greater incentives to encourage consumers to optimize their energy and water savings. Pacific Gas & Electric has piloted a program with their local water utilities for high efficiency clothes washer since 2007 and Washington state programs lead a similar effort called WashWise. Experts from these programs will provide insight on how to best leverage program resources through developing relationships with other organizations, like water utilities, and structuring joint programs. Questions to be addressed include:

• Were the water utilities receptive of partnering from the beginning or did you have to sell the concept?
• What are the challenges of running a joint program?
• How is your program structured differently than it would be without an external partner?
• Does the partnership impact what savings you are able to claim?

What is Ask the Experts?

This webinar is part of the Ask the Experts series of free workshops presented in webinar format to help new or prospective efficiency program administrators tackle specific energy efficiency program issues. The format is both informative and interactive, so be sure to bring your questions.

Who Should Attend?

This session will cover program experiences and approaches for partnering with water utilities on appliance programs. The experts will review their strategies for how to develop relationships with water utilities and structure joint programs. This session is targeted to program administrators who are looking to maximize their resources by partnering with other organizations, such as water utilities.

Ask the Experts is open to new administrators of energy efficiency programs, state regulators, and employees of CEE members. Contractors and consultants are currently excluded. Others may participate by personal invitation of CEE.