by Shane Henson — April 12, 2013—A publicly available database that offers federal, state, and local decision-makers information documenting the results of energy efficiency programs in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions was recently launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP), a nonprofit that facilitates regional partnerships in the Northeast United States to advance energy efficiency within buildings and homes.
The Regional Energy Efficiency Database (REED) provides a one-stop resource to readily access energy efficiency program data, including energy and peak-demand savings, costs, avoided emissions, and job impacts, says NEEP.
The REED database allows users to generate reports and download underlying data showing the impacts of ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. According to NEEP, REED will help inform a broad range of policy issues, including energy, economic, and air quality planning, and help demonstrate the long-term, money-saving benefits of energy efficiency investments.
Specifically, policymakers, program administrators and other industry stakeholders can use the REED data for a variety of purposes, including comparing efficiency program impacts across states to help identify best practices in efficiency policy and program design, as well as informing progress toward clean air and climate change goals. The database currently includes 2011 electric and gas energy efficiency program data and will expand this fall to include 2012 data from Delaware and the District of Columbia, as well as from the states currently in the database.
REED was developed for NEEP’s Regional Evaluation Measurement and Verification Forum (EM&V Forum) by Boston-based Peregrine Energy Group, and was supported by the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the states in the EM&V Forum.
