NESP News

2022:

NESP Quarterly Newsletter October 2022
Benefit-Cost Analysis: What it Can and Cannot Tell us About Distributional Equity of DERs, ACEEE Summer Study Paper and Presentation. See here for background on Distributional Equity Analysis.
NESP Quarterly Newsletter June 2022
New: BCA Use Case Examples
Companion document to the NSPM: Methods, Tools and Resources: A Handbook for Quantifying Distributed Energy Resource Impacts for Benefit-Cost Analysis
NESP Quarterly Newsletter February 2022
Planning for the Future – Aligning BCA and LCBF in DSP and IRP With the Help of NSPM MEEA blog by Gregory Ehrendreich

2021:

NESP Quarterly Newsletter October 2021
Non-Energy Benefits of Distributed Energy Resources August 2021, blog by Owen Connolly
NESP Quarterly Newsletter June 2021
NESP Quarterly Newsletter March 2021
How Can We Better Account for Economic Development in Benefit-Cost Analysis? blog by Shayna Fidler, Julie Michals, and Devin Hubbard

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2020
- NESP Quarterly Newsletter December 2020
- SEPA Trailer “National Standard Practice Manual For DERs” Part 1,2 and 3
- Barriers to Strategic Electrification Programs by Andrew Winslow, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
- Valuing Energy Efficiency by Greg Ehrendreich, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
- VIDEO: Here’s Why You Should Know About the National Standard Practice Manual featuring Tim Woolf, Synapse Energy Economics on the Energy Nerd Show. Click here for part 2 and part 3
- NESP Quarterly Newsletter September 2020
- New National Standard Practice Manual for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources – Released by Building Performance Association
- A New Manual Paves the Way for Sound, Consistent, Comprehensive, and Transparent Assessment of Clean Distributed Energy Resources by Tim Woolf, Synapse Energy Economics
- New National Standard Practice Manual for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources released. View media release.
- NSPM QUARTERLY – NEWSLETTER 6 (amended re: New Jersey article)
- NSPM QUARTERLY – NEWSLETTER 5
- Measuring Three Rs of Electric Energy Efficiency: Risk, Reliability, and Resilience, a ACEEE Topic Brief
- AEE Blog Why a Bandage Fix for Cost-Effectiveness Testing Isn’t Enough by Adam Scheer, Recurve, Jake Millette and Olivia Patterson, Opinion Dynamics, and Julie Michals, E4TheFuture
2019
- NSPM QUARTERLY – NEWSLETTER 4
- TRCs and Sugar Cookies – a Holiday Review of Cost-effectiveness Testing Practices blog by Alaina Boyle, E4TheFuture
- Utility System Impacts of Energy Efficiency: Taking Nothing for Granted by Greg Ehrendreich, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
- Assessing Resource Cost-Effectiveness by Erin Malone, Tim Woolf, and Danielle Goldberg, Synapse Energy Economics
- NSPM QUARTERLY – NEWSLETTER 3
- Evolving the National Standard Practice Manual by Samantha Caputo, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
- A New Tool to Improve Energy Efficiency Practices, an American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Topic Brief
- NSPM QUARTERLY – NEWSLETTER 2
- Sowing the Seeds of Change: REEOs report on NSPM developments in their region, blog by Cyrus Bhedwar, Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance; Greg Ehrendreich, Midwest Energy Efficiency Association; and Samantha Caputo and Elizabeth Titus, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
- NESP Webinar: Quantifying the Impacts of Energy Efficiency (and Other DERs)
- NSPM QUARTERLY – NEWSLETTER 1
- Gliding Into the New Year . . . New Case Studies & Resources Help States to Apply the NSPM, blog by Julie Michals, E4TheFuture
2018
Case Studies and Database of Screening Practices (DSP) now available
- NSPM: The Role of Evaluation in Carbon Reduction by Samantha Caputo, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
- Cost-Effectiveness Testing Needs a Refresh. The “Minnesota Test” Could be Just the Thing. blog by Gregory Ehrendreich, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
- Staying Cool with the NSPM: States Wade into Deeper Waters, by Julie Michals
- NSPM References page goes live. See monthly updates covering North American references of the manual.
- Advocates, utilities challenge cost-benefit formulas for efficiency by Karen Uhlenhuth, U.S. Energy News
2017
- Taking Stock: NSPM Makes Quiet Inroads, blog by Julie Michals
- Pollinating a Framework for Cost-Effectiveness Testing, blog by Julie Michals
- A New Lens for Assessing Cost-Effectiveness, blog by Julie Michals
- New standard practice manual for cost-effectiveness is an indispensable resource, by Martin Kushler, ACEEE
- Press release announcing the manual’s publication