APPENDIX B

Public Benefits Funding Levels in Nine Deregulated States


State

Types of Public Benefits Programs

Initial Funding


References

1996 Utility Generation

CA
  • Market transformation

$540 million/yr

Report of the Energy Efficiency Working Group (1996).
NARUC winter newsletter (1998).

114.7 GWh/yr
(4.7 mills/kWh)

IL
  • Residential energy efficiency grants

$3 million/yr

Illinois 1HB0362, ELECTRIC SERVICE CUSTOMER CHOICE AND RATE RELIEF LAW OF 1997

114.1 GWh/yr
(.03 mills/kWh)

MA
  • Market transformation
  • Lost-opportunity
  • Retrofit
  • Low-income

$610 million/yr

Electric Industry Restructuring Act, Chapter 164 of the Acts of 1997, Section 37 Subsection 19.
DTE Order 96-100.

27.8 GWh/yr
(21.9 mills/kWh)

ME
  • Market transformation
  • Education & research
  • Small businesses
  • Low-income

$26.4 million/yr

Maine PUC Rulemaking, 6/26/98. Docket No. 97-591.

7.8 GWh/yr
(3.4 mills/kWh)

MT
  • Renewable energy
  • Energy efficiency
  • Low-income

$90 million/yr

Montana Senate Bill 390

26.0 GWh/yr
(3.5 mills/kWh)

NY
  • Market transformation and evaluation
  • Education
  • ESCO support

$174 million/yr

NYSERDA, 1998. "Proposed Plan for Public Benefits Programs Funded by SBC".

104.4 GWh/yr
(1.7 mills/kWh)

RI
  • Renewable energy
  • Energy efficiency

$75 million/yr

RHODE ISLAND UTILITY RESTRUCTURING ACT OF 1996

3.3 GWh/yr
(22.7 mills/kWh)

VT
  • Emerging markets
  • Lost-opportunity
  • Dairy farm
  • Low-income

$77 million/yr

Vermont Department of Public Service, 1997. "The Power to Save: A Plan to Transform Vermont's Energy Efficiency Markets", Docket 5854.

5.0 GWh/yr
(15.4 mills/kWh)

WI
  • Market transformation
  • Customer-sited renewable energy
  • Applied research

$500 million/yr

Wisconsin PSC, 05-BU-100.

51.7 GWh/yr
(9.7 mills/kWh)

Table Notes

Data in first four columns came from Maryland Energy Administration Web site: http://www.energy.state.md.us/public.htm#, Public Benefits and Electric Market Restructuring in the State of Maryland.

Data in last column came from U.S. Energy Information Administration Web site: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/toc.html, State Electricity Profiles for 1996.

The (mills/kWh) in the last column was calculated by dividing the state's utility generation for 1996 into the state's initial funding for public benefits programs. This is NOT a system benefits charge; it simply is an expression to normalize funding levels against utility generation levels.