Resource Standards

In conjunction with the 2011 Wisconsin Energy Expo, MEEA analyzed the historical impact of Wisconsin's long-term investment in energy efficiency and what current trends in program funding and savings can mean for Wisconsin's residential and business energy customers, and for the state's economy.

Three years ago, in April 2008, the Ohio General Assembly with nearly unanimous support
passed Senate Bill 221 (SB221) which the Governor signed it into law in May 2008. Among other
clean energy provisions, SB221 established an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS) for
investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) in the State of Ohio. The EERS requires that a percentage of
the load (the amount of electricity that customers use each year) based on an average of the actual

MEEA submitted the attached comments in response to a questionnaire about Minnesota's Conservation Improvement Plan (CIP), the statewide energy efficiency resource standard for Minnesota.

 
Testimony of
 
Kevin K. Cullather
Senior Policy Manager
Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
 
before the
 
Illinois Senate Energy Committee
October 28, 2010

In late 2009/early 2010, MEEA analyzed the savings that Missouri could achieve from the adoption of a statewide Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS).  The attached Factsheet summarizes the findings, and the full report is also attached below.  Some minor errors were corrected and v1.2, incorporating these changes, was released in September 2010.

MEEA has released a new report that examines the potential savings that the state of Michigan could achieve through a doubling of their current Energy Optimization Standard to 2.0% of electricity and 1.5% of natural gas to be met through energy efficiency. This standard would bring Michigan in line with the energy efficiency standards adopted in other states in the region.

This position paper discusses the need for and benefit of the adoption of an energy efficiency resource standard for the State of Ohio.  It was published as part of the campaign that led to Ohio's adoption of SB221 in 2008.

This paper analyzes 2007's Ohio Energy, Jobs, and Progress Plan, which was an attempt to pass an energy efficiency resource standard for the state.