Utility Conservation Achievements Report

2007 was a record year for gains in electric power efficiency in the Pacific Northwest. The one-year, energy-conservation achievement in 2007 amounts to reduced electricity use of 200 average megawatts, or 1,750 million kilowatt-hours. 

See the survey report and press release.

Background

In 1996, the steering committee of the Comprehensive Review of the Northwest Energy System recommended that the Regional Technical Forum (RTF) track progress in meeting conservation and renewable energy goals.

Every two years the RTF conducts a survey of the region's utilities to report their conservation achievements.

No effort has been made to evaluate the methodology used by the utilities in calculating their savings, nor was a particular accounting method specified for reporting costs. As a result, the cost and energy savings attributed to measures by individual utilities are based on their own accounting practices and energy savings estimates.