Gas and Electric Whole House Partnerships: Sharing the Load, Sharing the Savings

March 23, 2011
2:00-3:30pm Eastern
(11:00am-12:30pm Pacific)

Facilitator: Margie Lynch, Senior Program Manager, CEE

The Experts
Presenters: Cynthia Swaim, Southern California Gas Co. & Amri Christianto, Southern California Edison; Peggy Curran, National Grid
Discussants: Lisanne Altmann, Long Island Power Authority; Erick Seelinger, PNM & Steve Casey, New Mexico Gas Company

What's It About?

This webinar will highlight partnerships between electric and natural gas organizations that offer joint whole house energy efficiency programs. Collaboration on comprehensive whole home programs enables administrators to pursue additional avenues for energy savings and efficiency measures. Within the whole house context, gas and electric utility partnership programs can seize unique opportunities to maximize available resources, reach a greater number of customers, and achieve increased savings through collective efforts. Learn how your organization might establish such partnerships in your local service territory, what the benefits entail, and where the greatest challenges lie.

Speakers will represent both new and existing homes programs, ENERGY STAR and other platforms, and various program design structures. In two presentations, program administrators will discuss the impetus for their collaboration, the specific objectives of their programs, and the delineation of roles and responsibilities. They will review the successes and benefits of their partnerships as well as the challenges and barriers encountered to date. Following these presentations, two discussants will speak briefly about their regional efforts to establish effective partnerships and the models for shared savings that they have developed. There will be opportunities for listeners to pose questions during the webinar.

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 is targeted to Program Designers and Planners, Program Managers, Portfolio Managers.

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.