PSC-19-12-00011-P Approval to Modify EEPS Electric Program Budgets and Targets Administered by NYSERDA

5/9/12 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-19-12-00011-P

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXIV, ISSUE 19

May 09, 2012

RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

PROPOSED RULE MAKING

NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

 

I.D No. PSC-19-12-00011-P

Approval to Modify EEPS Electric Program Budgets and Targets Administered by NYSERDA

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:

Proposed Action:

The Commission is considering whether to adopt, modify, or reject, in whole or in part, or to take any other action regarding a request by NYSERDA to modify EEPS electric program budgets and targets.

Statutory authority:

Public Service Law, sections 4(1), 5(2) and 66(1)

Subject:

Approval to modify EEPS electric program budgets and targets administered by NYSERDA.

Purpose:

Modify NYSERDA's EEPS electric program budgets and targets.

Substance of proposed rule:

The Commission is considering whether to adopt, in whole or in part, to reject, or to take any other action with respect to a March 30, 2012 petition from the New York State Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) proposing changes to its Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (EEPS) electric program budgets and energy savings targets. In its petition, NYSERDA proposes to decrease energy savings targets in 11 electric programs and to re-allocate budgets between various electric programs. NYSERDA is proposing to reallocate $3.8 million (20% of the total budget) from the Home Performance with Energy Star (HPwES) program to the Point-of-Sale Lighting program (POS Lighting), with a corresponding reduction of 5,352 MWH (12% of total savings) to the HPwES program and an increase of 34,282 MWH to the POS Lighting program. Overall, NYSERDA is proposing a reduction in the energy savings target of the POS Lighting program from 1,522,560 to 224,352 MWh, a reduction of 85%, due to significant changes in the lighting market. NYSERDA is proposing to reduce the energy savings target of the low-income residential EmPower NY program from 83,600 MWh to 61,960 MWh, a reduction of 26%, with no change in the corresponding budget. NYSERDA proposes to decrease the energy savings targets for the Multifamily Performance Program (MPP) and the Low-Income Multifamily Performance Program (LI-MPP) from 113,712 to 108,124 MWh (4.9%) and from 136,628 to 130,169 MWh (4.7%), respectively, while keeping the corresponding budgets unchanged. NYSERDA proposes to reallocate $14.8 million of the $21.1 million budget (70%) of the Electric Reduction in Master-Metered (ERMM) multifamily program budget to the Technology and Market Development (T&MD) Combined Heat and Power (CHP) program. NYSERDA also proposes to reallocate the entire $21.2 million budget of the Benchmarking and Operations Efficiency (BOE) commercial and industrial program to the CHP, with an elimination of the 106,640 MWH energy savings target. NYSERDA estimates the corresponding reduction in the ERMM program energy savings target from 41,928 to 12,579 MWH (70%). NYSERDA further proposes to subsume the function of the BOE program into the Flex Tech program. NYSERDA is proposing, due to various factors, the following energy savings target reductions: the Flex Tech audit program reduced from 758,120 MWh to 445,000 MWh (41%); the Industrial and Process Efficiency program reduced from 1,010,624 MWh to 800,000 MWh (21%); and the High Performance New Construction program savings reduced from 552,050 to 350,000 MWh (37%). NYSERDA has proposed no changes to those program’s budgets.

Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained by filing a Document Request Form (F-96) located on our website http://www.dps.state.ny.us/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:

Leann Ayer, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:

Jaclyn A. Brilling, Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Public comment will be received until:

45 days after publication of this notice.

Regulatory Impact Statement, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Rural Area Flexibility Analysis and Job Impact Statement

Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.

(07-M-0548SP57)