WAC 194-37-060   Conservation reporting requirements.  Each utility shall submit an annual conservation report to the department by June 1 beginning in 2012. The conservation report shall document the utility's progress in meeting the conservation targets established in RCW 19.285.040 and shall include the following:

     (1) A summary of the data the utility reports to the "planning, tracking and reporting system." The summary shall include total electricity savings by customer sector - residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural, by production efficiencies, and by distribution efficiencies. To create this summary report, each utility will report its annual conservation achievements using the NWPCC's regional technical forum "planning, tracking and reporting system," or an alternative reporting system approved, in advance of the reporting year, by the department. Each utility can report using the default values embedded in the NWPCC's planning, tracking and reporting system or the utility may use its own inputs as documented per WAC 194-37-080 (8) and (9).

     (2) If the utility counts towards its biennial target any electricity savings from local, regional, state, or federal market transformation programs, or local, state or federal codes or standards, the utility shall include copies of reports of the annual electricity savings for the utility's service territory as estimated and recorded by entities such as the department, the NWPCC, regional market transformation organizations, or the utility.

     (3) A brief description of the methodology used to establish the utility's ten-year potential and biennial target to capture cost-effective conservation, including the share of this target to be captured by efficiency improvements in customer measures, and, if any, in distribution measures and production measures.

     (4) The utility's total expenditures for conservation broken down by residential sector, commercial sector, industrial sector, and agricultural sector, and, if any, production efficiency and distribution efficiency.

     (5) The most recent final audit report(s), if any, that evaluate(s) the utility's compliance with chapter 19.285 RCW and the information the utility reported per this chapter.

     (6) In even years this report must include the following information categorized by customer conservation savings, and if any, total distribution efficiency savings, and total production efficiency savings:

     (a) The utility's achievement in meeting its preceding biennial target; and

     (b) The utility's current ten-year potential and biennial target.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 19.285.080(2). 08-07-079, § 194-37-060, filed 3/18/08, effective 4/18/08.]