MEEA Response to Focus on Energy Quadrennial Planning Process IV - Phase 2 (Docket 5-FE-104)

MEEA seeks an achievable pathway for all people and communities in the Midwest to receive the economic, environmental and societal benefits of energy efficiency and the larger clean energy economy. [...] The CIP Cost-Effectiveness Advisory Group, of which MEEA is a participant, has engaged in a multi-stage process, following the framework laid out in the NSPM, to determine the test for the state. [...] As a secondary test, then, it is most useful to have a test that strips back the list of included impacts to only the core utility system impacts and shows the net costs and benefits to the utility system of acquiring the resource. [...] This would be the most useful for understanding the cost of acquisition for the program administrator and help to prioritize between programs that pass the primary screen. [...] Regardless of what decisions are made in this Quad Plan, we hope that the Commission and Staff continue to explore ways to expand the reach and charge of the Focus program.