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California Energy Commission: efficiency rules and programs deliver large net savings and should be preserved
Summary
The California Energy Commission told the Little Hoover Commission that statewide efficiency standards, school ventilation and plumbing grants, equipment listing work and the EPIC research program produce net savings and other benefits that contribute to affordability, reliability and emissions reductions.
Michael Sokol, director of the Efficiency Division at the California Energy Commission, told the Little Hoover Commission the agency reviewed its ratepayer-funded programs after Governor Newsom's affordability executive order and concluded that "the big energy efficiency programs remain highly cost beneficial and deliver substantial savings to customers" while helping meet the state's clean-energy goals.
Sokol summarized four program areas: codes and standards, CalSHAPE (school ventilation and plumbing grants), the statewide solar…
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