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The National Energy Screening Project (NESP^TM) convenes stakeholders to improve cost-effectiveness screening practices for distributed energy resources (DERs).

Learn about NESP’s mission, purpose and structure.

NESP’s main products and services are:

• National Standard Practice Manual^TM for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources
• Methods, Tools and Resources: A Handbook for Quantifying Distributed Energy Resource Impacts for Benefit-Cost Analysis (MTR handbook)
• Providing technical assistance to states to apply the NSPM and developing case studies
• Assessing Energy Affordability Alongside BCAs: Conducting Distributional Analyses of Affordability, Reliability and Other Metrics