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Rocky Mountain Power asks Utah PSC to clarify rule requiring DSM programs to pass five cost tests
Summary
Rocky Mountain Power told a Utah Public Service Commission technical conference that changes in technology and costs have made it difficult to design demand-side management programs that pass the five standard cost-effectiveness tests in a 2009 order and proposed clarifying the language or holding a technical workshop.
During a teleconference with the Utah Public Service Commission, Rocky Mountain Power officials said the utility can no longer reliably design its demand-side management (DSM) programs to “pass all five standard cost effectiveness tests” required by a 2009 commission order and asked regulators to consider clarifying the rule or convening a technical workshop.
Clay Monroe, managing director of customer solutions for Rocky Mountain Power, told commissioners the five tests — the utility cost test (UCT), the total resource cost test (TRC), the Pacificorp-modified TRC (PTRC), the participant test and the ratepayer impact measure (RIM) test — provide different lenses on program benefits and costs. He said that as low-cost measures such as LED lighting have become baseline practices, the portfolio has shifted toward higher-cost measures…
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