NOTES AND CAVEATS ABOUT THE BUDGET DATA

• The budgets included in this report are estimates. Total actual expenditures for the program year may vary from the budget reported for each state.
• Different organizations track budgets using different time periods. Information for the 2007 program year includes both calendar and fiscal years.
• Data collection took place during summer and fall of 2007. As budgets are subject to change, the information represents a snapshot in time valid for the collection period only.
• Not all organizations allocate program budgets by sector exactly the same way. In cases where it was impossible to determine how much of each budget was earmarked for residential, low income, and commercial and industrial programs, CEE asked the respondent to provide an estimate of the likely breakdown based on the prior year's expenditures. For those cases in which such information was not available, the entire organization's budget is reported under the "other" category.
• Estimates for load management are conservative. Some states that do not appear to have load management programs actually have such programs, but these expenditures are not considered a part of efficiency program budgets. Thus they are not reported here. In addition, a few organizations do not break out load management budgets from those of "pure" efficiency programs. In these few cases, load management is allocated by sector. Load management is shown separately on Tables 3 and 8.
• The budgets reported here are conservative. Most smaller municipal and co-operative energy suppliers are not included. Note that most low-income weatherization programs run by state energy offices are excluded.
• The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) serve multi-state regions. Thus the energy-efficiency budgets for these two organizations cannot be broken out by state. Data for BPA and NEEA have been included in a separate line under the Pacific Northwest regional heading.

For more details on CEE's annual budget data collection effort, or to report updated budget information, contact Johanna Krouk at 617-589-3949, ext. 223.