Unpacking CA's Total System Benefits Metric and the NSPM
In October, I shared a panel at ACEEE’s Energy Efficiency as a Resource conference in Philadelphia with Mohit Chhabra of NRDC. I spoke about how states and utilities in the Midwest have started to apply the principles of the NSPM Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) framework to cost-effectiveness testing. Mohit spoke about a metric in use in California called the Total System Benefit (TSB), which measures the economic value of efficiency programs for the electric grid.