Welcome to Energy Savers

Welcome to Energy Savers. We’re leading consultants in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy and telecom portfolio planning and management. For rate-payer funded and market-based energy efficiency products and services, we provide services in:

o Strategic planning, portfolio design, and service delivery consulting;
o Negotiation and expert witness testimony;
o Management consulting;
o Evaluation; Utility auditing and
o Technical research.

Our clientele includes utilities, government, non-profit organizations, and energy service companies.





Energy Savers strives to help clients examine, formulate and execute efficiency investment alternatives that:



Reduce electricity and/or gas demand growth sufficiently to postpone the need for more costly new supply.
Maximize economic value from efficiency savings by helping customers spend less on saving energy then they pay to use it.
Reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources and the undesirable by-products of their production and use.
Maximize the benefits of your telecom expenses
Energy Savers provides two different types of services depending on the setting. The bulk of our practice deals with efficiency programs funded by consumers of regulated electricity and/or gas service. In this setting we assist clients with program design and development; program planning; program assessment and evaluation; implementation; management; and regulatory review and policy support.

We also serve a limited clientele of energy service businesses seeking to harness the value, safety, comfort, and quality of efficiency products and services to build market share and customer loyalty.

Efficiency and Renewable Portfolio Strategic Planning and Management Consulting

Program design and development

Defining program scope (regional, state, utility system, targeted electric distribution circuits)and objectives (market transformation, resource acquisition, economic value, customer service, distributional equity)
Devising and packaging technical, financial, marketing, and delivery strategies to maximize program energy, economic and environmental savings
Program Planning

Characterizing costs and performance of efficiency and renewable technologies
Estimating achievable market penetration and participant savings\
Setting program performance goals
Projecting program resource savings
Program budgeting
Program assessment and evaluation

Developing, applying and supporting use of cost-effectiveness screening tools to demonstrate economic value of programs and particular projects.
Valuing and integrating projected program savings and costs into supply planning and acquisition
Developing, overseeing, conducting, and reviewing evaluation of program results and market research
Management Consulting

Development of management performance goals for meeting program objectives
Assisting program management with development of implementation plans and procedures to meet and exceed program performance goals
Supporting business development for commercial and industrial customers and trade allies (e.g., vendors, architects/engineers)
Establishing methods and assumptions for estimating and tracking program savings
Providing decision support in staffing and contracting (job descriptions, recruiting, contractor scope of work).
Reporting of program progress and outcomes.
Quality assurance planning and execution
Regulatory review and policy support

Expert testimony and advice on regulatory policy for efficiency and renewable investments
Support in regulatory review and approval of efficiency and renewable program plans and results
Formulation and support of cost recovery and program performance incentives
Development, Planning, Startup and Ongoing Support For Retail Energy Products and Services Businesses

Product Development

Helping conceptualize and define efficiency and renewable products and services
Integrating efficiency and renewable offerings with related products and services to strengthen market position
Business Planning and Startup

Preparing written business plans capable of securing startup financing
Putting in place the sales, operating, and customer service personnel and procedures that will sustain and grow the business over time
Providing ongoing support to improve business performance
Energy Saver’s Cost Effectiveness Screening Tool is a key element of our analysis capabilities. The tool provides a foundation for strategic planning efforts by assessing and accounting the costs and benefits of both individual applications and comprehensive portfolios, supporting short-and long-term evaluations of strategies and offered services.

The tool is highly versatile and multifaceted yet transparent. It is a spreadsheet-based software application, and is in use today at numerous utilities for efficiency program analysis.

Among the tools many capabilities are:

Full accounting of technology costs, including capital, fuel, operating and maintenance, and cost offsets such as non-electricity savings (e.g. gas) and non-energy benefits (e.g.water).
Proper accounting for the benefits of electric energy and demand savings from efficiency and renewable technologies, calculated using annual values of long-run avoided costs.
Precise treatment of various timing effects, including different lifetimes, multiple electricity costing periods, and proper handling of cost and savings shifts over time due to early retirement of existing inefficient equipment with high-efficiency technologies.
In-depth treatment of long-term market effects, including changes in technology costs and performance over time (e.g. reductions in technology costs due to market transformation), and projections of market penetrations under business as usual and under different policy initiatives.
Full reporting of electricity, economic, and environmental impacts over time.
Here are some of the hallmarks of Energy Saver’s approach to efficiency investment planning:

Rigorous analysis formulated and conducted to demonstrate the net economic value of efficiency investments, analysis that is both accessible to the public yet stands up to regulatory and investor scrutiny.
Complete treatment of all major determinants of efficiency technology and program performance, especially their interaction and integration as part of comprehensive solutions.
Effective integration of efficiency savings into energy supply planning, particularly the influence of efficiency program performance on the timing of generation, transmission and distribution needs.
Deep understanding of market barriers to efficiency investment by customers and suppliers , and solid grasp of proven market intervention strategies for overcoming these barriers rapidly and permanently.
Unique blend of hands-on experience with efficiency technologies and investment decision-making real-life business settings, backed by extensive technical, policy, management, and regulatory expertise.
Wide-ranging knowledge of the history, results, and lessons from efficiency programs run throughout North America over the past quarter-century.
Energy Savers has consistently brought these qualities to bear in the development, analysis and planning of energy-efficiency portfolios worth hundreds of millions of dollars throughout North America. These attributes make Energy Savers the first choice for consulting assistance in the design, development, planning, assessment, startup, and ongoing implementation management support for large-scale efficiency investment programs. Especially effective are the analytical tools Energy Savers uses to help clients demonstrate the net economic value to be realized from achievable efficiency and renewable technology potential, which manifests itself in the form of increased disposable income to households and increased competitiveness and profitability on the part of participating businesses.



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