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RAP's Recommended Reading: Our reading list offers a broad scope of policy papers that come highly recommended by RAP's staff.
Highlights of RAP's recent work around the globe:
RAP in the US:
- NARUC: RAP's presentations at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Summer Meetings, held July 18-21, 2010 in Sacramento, CA, covered topics including smart grid, decoupling and feed-in tariffs.
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Smart Policies Before Smart Grids: RAP's Lisa Schwartz recently gave this presentation at the 2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. The presentation examines how state regulators can steer smart grid investments toward customer-side solutions. Read the associated paper.
- The State Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action): RAP's Richard Sedano is staffing "Utility Motivation for Energy Efficiency," one of
SEE Action's eight working groups. Under the supervision of US DOE and US EPA,
SEE Action works to help states achieve maximum cost-effective energy efficiency improvements in homes, offices, buildings and industry by 2020. Mr. Sedano will help members understand the motivations that promote and discourage all cost-effective energy efficiency, and consider steps to improve utility sector motivation and energy efficiency outcomes.
- Energy Foundation training: RAP is offering technical assistance to Energy Foundation grantees on energy efficiency program design and implementation. RAP's Aug. 24 webinar,Integrating the Impact of Energy Efficiency Programs into Resource Planning, was presented by Mike Messenger of Itron and Tom Eckman of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. RAP's July 1 webinar, Portfolio Development and Evaluation Planning, featured Mr. Messenger and Steve Schiller as presenters. Visit RAP's resources page for more on the webinars or other aspects of the training series.
See more of RAP's work in the US.
RAP in China:
- FERC meetings: RAP recently organized a series of workshops and discussions in China for Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Read more...
- National training workshops: RAP is working with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing to hold national training workshops for Chinese officials and practitioners on implementing demand-side management (DSM) and energy efficiency projects. The first of the training workshops, "Planning and Constructing an Efficiency Power Plant," was held June 1-3, 2010. Read more on the workshops or about RAP's other work in China.
RAP in the EU:
- "Roadmap 2050" Project: This ambitious study, commissioned by the European Climate Foundation, will rigorously examine the feasibility of achieving 80% greenhouse gas emission reductions in Europe by 2050. RAP is a member of the policy team for this project, analyzing the near- to mid-term public policies needed to move the EU to this low-carbon transition. RAP's
policy paper on generation capacity market design has been incorporated into the Roadmap 2050 report.
- EU Goals and Standards for Energy Efficiency: Together with the European Climate Foundation, RAP has commissioned and supervised publication of a major research paper on the feasibility of enacting binding energy efficiency targets for the EU and Member States, along the same lines as the Commission’s binding targets for renewable power and carbon reduction. The study, prepared jointly by the highly respected firms Ecofys and Fraunhofer ISI, will be presented to the European Commission’s DG Energy and to Member States and stakeholders throughout the region in 2010.
RAP's Richard Cowart made this recent presentation to the ETS unit at the Commission’s Climate Action DG in Brussels, reporting on RAP’s research documenting the crucial role of complementary policies to the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). He has made similar presentations to EU NGOs, showing that expected carbon prices under the EU ETS are not enough by themselves to drive the investments needed to meet Europes’s 2020 and 2050 goals for efficiency, renewable power and emission reductions.
- Ongoing Support to European Energy Regulators: RAP has recently been appointed as an advisor to the International Confederation of Energy Regulators' (ICER) Climate Change Committee, and will be working with that committee on energy efficiency, renewable power, power market, and other regulatory issues. RAP has recently held workshops and made presentations thoughout the EU, including those at the
World Forum on Energy Regulation in Athens and the
US-EU conference on climate policy in Prague.
Read more about RAP's work in the EU.
RAP in other regions:
- Asian Development Bank: RAP assisted in the Asian Development Bank's Asia‐Pacific "Dialogue on Clean Energy Governance and Regulation," held in Manila, Philippines on June 21-22, 2010.
Read more about RAP's latest work in other regions.
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