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Below are 46 results of the Related Publications of 'Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) of Residential Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency Programs: Issues and Recommendations'. The publications are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

1.	Coordination of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Summarizes existing research and discusses current practices, opportunities, and barriers to coordinating energy efficiency and demand response programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

2.	Customer Incentives for Energy Efficiency Through Electric and Natural Gas Rate Design Summarizes the issues and approaches involved in motivating customers to reduce the total energy they consume through energy prices and rate design.   Details Bookmark & Share

3.	Customer Incentives for Energy Efficiency Through Program Offerings Summarizes the approaches used by energy efficiency program administrators when assessing the range of financial and other incentives to be used in energy efficiency programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

4.	Understanding Cost-Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Programs Discusses the five standard tests used to assess the cost-effectiveness of energy efficiency, how states use the tests, and how the tests can determine the cost-effectiveness of efficiency measures.   Details Bookmark & Share

5.	Who Should Deliver Ratepayer-Funded Energy Efficiency? A 2011 Update Identifies and discusses factors that should be considered in evaluating model choices for administering and implementing ratepayer funded energy efficiency programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

6.	Customer Information and Behavior Fact Sheet Provides an overview of how state policymakers, utilities, and regulators can overcome barriers to deploying customer energy information and feedback strategies.  Details Bookmark & Share

7.	Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide The key efficiency evaluation, measurement, and verification resource for novices and experts. Includes definitions, concepts, and steps for calculating savings, avoided emissions, and other impacts.  Details Bookmark & Share

8.	A Regulator’s Privacy Guide to Third-Party Data Access for Energy Efficiency Summarizes approaches taken by states on privacy and security issues related to third-party access to customer data and provides guidance on policy options for providing access to customer data.  Details Bookmark & Share

9.	Guide to the Successful Implementation of State Combined Heat and Power Policies Provides utility regulators and other policymakers with actionable information based on effective state strategies for implementing CHP policies  Details Bookmark & Share

10.	National Action Plan Vision for 2025: A Framework for Change Establishes a goal of achieving all cost-effective energy efficiency by 2025 and presents 10 implementation goals as a framework for advancing the National Action Plan’s key policy recommendations.  Details Bookmark & Share

11.	National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Report Summarizes recommendations, key barriers, and methods for energy efficiency in utility ratemaking as well as revenue requirements, resource planning processes, rate design, and program best practices.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Review of Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Approaches Used to Estimate the Load Impacts and Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Programs Provides an overview of evaluation, measurement, and verification approaches used to estimate the load impacts and effectiveness of energy efficiency programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

13.	Setting Energy Savings Targets for Utilities Helps policymakers understand how electric and natural gas utilities can achieve greater efficiency by establishing numeric energy savings targets and goals for energy efficiency programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

14.	Strategic Energy Management for Regulators of Ratepayer-Funded Programs Provides regulators with information on how to design and implement whole-building, continuous-improvement energy management programs for commercial buildings.   Details Bookmark & Share

15.	Strategic Energy Management for State and Local Governments Provides policymakers with information on how to design and implement whole-building, continuous-improvement energy management programs for commercial buildings.   Details Bookmark & Share

16.	Using Integrated Resource Planning to Encourage Investment in Cost-Effective Energy Efficiency Describes how utility planning processes that allow demand-side resources to compete with supply-side resources can promote cost-effective energy efficiency.   Details Bookmark & Share

17.	Energy Benchmarking, Rating, and Disclosure for Regulators of Ratepayer-Funded Programs Provides information on how supporting access to building benchmarking data can help utilities increase efficiency and drive down energy demand.   Details Bookmark & Share

18.	Impacts of Energy Efficiency Programs on Customer Satisfaction Provides data from nationwide utility customer satisfaction surveys and two case studies to encourage utilities to offer high-quality energy efficiency programs and services for their customers.   Details Bookmark & Share

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Overview of Residential Energy Feedback and Behavior-based Energy Efficiency Provides an overview of residential customer information and behavior efficiency programs, and identifies key challenges to and solutions for increasing the penetration of these programs nationwide.   Details Bookmark & Share

20.	Regulatory Policy Guide/Game Concept Paper Proposes a new resource for utility regulators to plot a course through regulatory options available to surmount barriers to aggressive and sustained utility investment in energy efficiency programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

21.	Retro-Commissioning for Regulators of Ratepayer-Funded Programs Describes how customer usage data can help promote the adoption of retro-commissioning polices for public and private commercial buildings.   Details Bookmark & Share

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Utility Best Practices Guidance for Providing Business Customers with Energy Use and Cost Data Summarizes the context; current state of utility practices; and the customer, business, and policy cases for providing business customers with consistent, standardized energy use and cost data.   Details Bookmark & Share

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Analyzing and Managing Bill Impacts of Energy Efficiency Programs: Principles and Recommendations Provides policymakers with principles and recommendations to understand and manage concerns about bill and rate impacts resulting from requiring utilities to provide efficiency programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

24.	Aligning Utility Incentives with Investment in Energy Efficiency Describes the effects of utility spending on efficiency programs, how those effects could constitute barriers to investment in energy efficiency, and how policy mechanisms can reduce these barriers.   Details Bookmark & Share

25.	Consumer Energy Efficiency Fact Sheet Provides information about energy efficiency, explains how utility and state investment in energy efficiency helps consumers, and describes what to expect from utility or state efficiency programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

26.	Delivering Energy Efficiency to Middle Income Single Family Households Provides state and local policymakers with information on successful approaches to the design and implementation of residential efficiency programs for households ineligible for low-income programs.   Details Bookmark & Share

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Discussion of Consumer Perspectives on Regulation of Energy Efficiency Investments Considers consumers' perspectives on policy and regulatory issues associated with the administration of energy efficiency investments funded by ratepayers of electric and natural gas utilities.   Details Bookmark & Share

28.	Energy Efficiency as a Low-Cost Resource for Achieving Carbon Emissions Reductions Summarizes the scale and economic value of energy efficiency for reducing carbon emissions and discusses barriers to achieving the potential for cost-effective energy efficiency.   Details Bookmark & Share

29.	Energy Efficiency Program Best Practices Presents best practices for operating successful portfolio-level efficiency programs, including assessing efficiency potential, cost-effectiveness screening, and developing a portfolio of approaches.   Details Bookmark & Share

30.	Guide for Conducting Energy Efficiency Potential Studies Provides guidance on determining the efficiency potential in a utility footprint, state, or region; evaluating efficiency as a supply-side resource; and developing detailed efficiency program plans.   Details Bookmark & Share

31.	Guide to Resource Planning with Energy Efficiency Describes the key issues, best practices, and main process steps for integrating energy efficiency into resource planning on an equal basis with other resources.   Details Bookmark & Share

32.	Rapid Deployment Energy Efficiency (RDEE) Toolkit Provides detailed program design and implementation guides to help entities choose successful efficiency programs with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.   Details Bookmark & Share

33.	Sector Collaborative on Energy Efficiency Helps stakeholders identify and act on cost-effective opportunities for expanding energy efficiency resources in the hospitality, retail, commercial real estate, grocery, and municipal sectors.   Details Bookmark & Share

34.	Energy Efficiency Program Administrators and Building Energy Codes Explores how energy efficiency program administrators have helped advance building energy codes at federal, state, and local levels using technical, institutional, financial, and other resources.   Details Bookmark & Share

35.	Energy Benchmarking, Rating, and Disclosure for Local Governments Provides information on how access to energy use data can help local governments create policies for benchmarking and disclosing building energy performance for public and private sector buildings.   Details Bookmark & Share

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Benchmarking and Disclosure: State and Local Policy Design Guide and Sample Policy Language Provides sample policy language based on a synthesis of existing state and local policies, and discussion on key provisions, for the design of a commercial benchmarking and disclosure policy.   Details Bookmark & Share

37.	Retro-Commissioning for State and Local Governments Describes how state and local governments can lead by example by retro-commissioning their own buildings and adopting retro-commissioning policies for the private sector.   Details Bookmark & Share

38.	Industrial Energy Efficiency and Combined Heat and Power Fact Sheet Provides an overview of the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network's (SEE Action) Industrial Energy Efficiency and Combined Heat and Power Working Group.   Details Bookmark & Share

39.	Energy Benchmarking, Rating, and Disclosure for State Governments Provides information on how energy use data access can help state governments lead by example through benchmarking and disclosing results and implement benchmarking policies for the private sector.   Details Bookmark & Share

40.	High-Performance Leasing for State and Local Governments Describes the value of high-performance leasing and how states can lead by example by using high-performance leases in their facilities and encourage high-performance leasing in the private sector.   Details Bookmark & Share

41.	Roadmap for the Home Energy Upgrade Market Outlines existing barriers that challenge progress toward achieving all cost-effective residential energy efficiency retrofits.   Details Bookmark & Share

42.	Utility Manufacturing Workshop: Discussion Summary Summarizes the industrial energy efficiency workshop, held in September 2011, that focused on addressing industrial efficiency, CHP, waste heat recovery, and barriers to investment in these areas.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Forum on Enhancing the Delivery of Energy Efficiency to Middle Income Households: Discussion Summary Summarizes discussions and recommendations from a forum for practitioners and policymakers aiming to strengthen residential energy efficiency program design and delivery for middle income households.   Details Bookmark & Share

44.	Energy-Saving Homes, Buildings, & Manufacturing This document highlights DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's advancements in saving energy in homes, buildings, and industrial plants.  Details Bookmark & Share

45.	Renewable Electricity Generation This document highlights DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's advancements in renewable electricity generation technologies including solar, water, wind, and geothermal.  Details Bookmark & Share

46.	Sustainable Transportation This document highlights DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's advancements in transportation technologies, alternative fuels, and fuel cell technologies.  Details Bookmark & Share