housing to low-income Californians in deed restricted, government and owned multi-family buildings, as described in this Decision, subject to a cap of $80 million of unspent funds by each language utility…(similar in Decision p. 196) 5. PROGRAM Jan 12 Protest p. 12: We urge the ALIGNMENT. CHPC Commission to require IOUs to provide provided evidence of the lack sufficient detail on their proposals to of coordination among various coordinate ESAP with MFEER, EUC, energy efficiency programs programs offered by the Department administered by the utilities of Community Services & and the California Department Development (CSD), and others, in of Community Services & order to comply with the mandates of Development (CSD). CHPC D.14-08-030 to coordinate among demonstrated how the failure multifamily programs, including to coordinate undermines providing proposals to pool funds. achievement of energy savings and discourages participation Prehearing Conference Statement filed in ESAP. CHPC provided by NRDC/NCLC/CHPC on March 2, guidance for methods to 2015 2 p. 4: (“March PHC”) “We improve program coordination, agree that the Commission should and integrating multiple examine the IOU coordination efforts, programs to achieve better but ask the Commission to explicitly results. state that coordination efforts also include coordination with the general Energy Efficiency programs, such as Energy Upgrade and the Multifamily Energy Efficiency Rebate program.” April 27 Stamas-01 p.25-26: programs that still have “Layering varying timelines, unique eligibility and enrollment rules, unique administrators, and incentives that PROGRAM ALIGNMENT cut against participation in multiple (page 2 of 5) programs, does not provide for true program coordination… Furthermore, budgets and timelines are incongruent with providing integrated offerings, see Table 5: Utility Program Budgets Based on Historic 2013 ESA Expenditures and Average of 2013 and 2014 Non-ESA p. 33: 5 illustrates, Budgets” “As Table budgets in other multifamily utilities’
housing to low-income Californians in deed restricted, government and owned multi-family buildings, as described in this Decision, subject to a cap of $80 million of unspent funds by each utility…(similar language in Decision p. 196) 5. PROGRAM ALIGNMENT. CHPC provided evidence of the lack of coordination among various energy efficiency programs administered by the utilities and the California Department of Community Services & Development (CSD). CHPC demonstrated how the failure to coordinate undermines achievement of energy savings and discourages participation in ESAP. CHPC provided guidance for methods to improve program coordination, and integrating multiple programs to achieve better results. PROGRAM ALIGNMENT (page 2 of 5) Jan 12 Protest p. 12: We urge the Commission to require IOUs to provide sufficient detail on their proposals to coordinate ESAP with MFEER, EUC, programs offered by the Department of Community Services & Development (CSD), and others, in order to comply with the mandates of D.14-08-030 to coordinate among multifamily programs, including providing proposals to pool funds. Prehearing Conference Statement filed by NRDC/NCLC/CHPC on March 2, 2015 (“March 2 PHC”) p. 4: “We agree that the Commission should examine the IOU coordination efforts, but ask the Commission to explicitly state that coordination efforts also include coordination with the general Energy Efficiency programs, such as Energy Upgrade and the Multifamily Energy Efficiency Rebate program.” April 27 Stamas-01 p.25-26: “Layering programs that still have varying timelines, unique eligibility and enrollment rules, unique administrators, and incentives that cut against participation in multiple programs, does not provide for true coordination… Furthermore, program budgets and timelines are incongruent with providing integrated offerings, see Table 5: Utility Program Budgets Based on Historic 2013 ESA Expenditures and Average of 2013 and 2014 Non-ESA Budgets” p. 33: “As Table 5 illustrates, utilities’ budgets in other multifamily
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