Energy efficiency resources save energy and can reduce peak power demand. Typically, however, efforts to quantify energy efficiency benefits have not focused on how efficiency savings are more valuable at certain times of the day and year—namely summer peaks—as a result of the time-varying upstream value of energy savings for the larger grid system. Because many grid investments are driven by when consumers use energy, it’s not possible to accurately assess the upstream grid benefits of energy savings without knowing when energy savings are occurring.

To help fill this knowledge gap, and to better understand the full economic impact of energy efficiency measures, BTO recently sponsored a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) analysis and new report evaluating the time-varying value of efficiency measures for five electricity end-uses—residential lighting, residential water heating, residential air conditioning, commercial lighting, and exit signs—in the Pacific Northwest, California, Massachusetts, and Georgia.

LBNL will be hosting a free webinar to discuss this new report on Monday, July 10, 2017 at 2 p.m. EDT / 11 a.m. PDT.