Wisconsin
Act 141. Wisconsin Stat. 196.974 (3) (b)
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Wis. Stat. § 196.491
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PSC undertakes quadrennial planning requirement for energy efficiency and renewables
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Strategic Energy Assessment ”that evaluates the adequacy and reliability of Wisconsin‘s current and future 4 electrical capacity and supply”
While Illinois utilities are not required to conduct integrated resource planning, they are required to incorporate energy efficiency into their procurement plans. Each Illinois utility procuring power must provide the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) with an annual assessment of cost-effective energy efficiency programs or measures that could be included in the procurement plan, which must include an energy efficiency potential study for the utility’s service territory. Under the Public Utilities Act,5 beginning in 2012, procurement plans are to include an analysis of the impact of building energy codes or appliance standards, as well as an assessment of opportunities to expand energy efficiency programs that have been offered under plans or to implement additional cost-effective energy efficiency programs. The IPA must include in the prepared procurement plan energy efficiency programs and measures it determines are cost-effective and the associated annual energy savings goals. The Commission will approve the energy efficiency programs and measures included in the procurement plan, including the annual energy savings goal, if they determine it fully captures the potential for all achievable cost-effective energy savings. Utility Energy Efficiency Policies – Energy efficiency policies have been adopted in a majority of the states and in every region of the nation. As the map below illustrates, Republican and Democratic governors and legislators in 28 states have recognized the importance of energy efficiency and adopted statewide policies to encourage or require utility-focused energy efficiency savings. These policies established the framework for specific spending or energy savings targets for ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs. In addition, policymakers in other states have adopted policies that encourage efficiency to be incorporated though the utilities’ respective planning processes or simply provided the mechanism for the state’s utility regulatory commission to address efficiency programs on a utility-byutility or case-by-case basis.
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Energy Efficiency Policies, Programs, and Practices in the Midwest