National Energy Screening Project News
2025
- OpenBCA Tool – An NSPM-Based Model for DERs – overview and project launch announcement
- The Database of Screening Practices (DSP) is now available from its new home, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
- State Benefit-Cost Analysis Practices: Accounting for Non-Utility System Impacts of Select Distributed Energy Resources is published, a report prepared for NESP by AnnDyl Policy Group (Feb.)
- Michigan Case Study is published (Jan.)
2024:
- Maryland UBCA Case Study is updated (Dec.)
- NESP Newsletter November 2024
- Maryland UBCA Case Study is published (Oct.)
- Distributional Equity Analysis for Energy Efficiency and Other Distributed Energy Resources: A Practical Guide is published (May). Complementary stakeholder engagement guide is published (July).
- NESP Newsletter May 2024
- NSPM media coverage: (Energy News Network) Virginia lawmakers reached a compromise on energy efficiency – here’s what it will mean for utilities and regulators
- Inaugural and ongoing BCA trainings with AESP Academy: See Training and Certification for details.
2023:
- NESP Newsletter November 2023
- NESP Newsletter July 2023
- Treatment of Lost Revenues in a World of Expanding DERs, article by Karl Rábago: The issue of lost/gained revenues impacts associated with DERs is contentious in regulatory dockets and decisions. Karl Rábago (Rábago Energy, former commissioner) expertly illuminates the backdrop of utility recovery of revenue requirements, in particular in the context of distributed generation; he shows the danger of mixing apples and oranges if lost revenues are included in BCAs. Karl hopes that more stakeholders can approach the issue from a position that embraces a common understanding, with the NSPM providing guidance based on foundational principles.
- NESP Newsletter February 2023
- Update on Benefit Cost Analysis for Distributed Energy Resources, Public Utilities Fortnightly article featuring Julie Michals (E4TheFuture) and Kate Strickland (SEPA).
2022:
- Consistent Methods to Evaluate DERs: Opposite of Arbitrary and Capricious, Public Utilities Fortnightly article by John Shenot (Regulatory Assistance Project) and Chris Neme (Energy Futures Group).
- NESP 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 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 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 Newsletter October 2021
- Non-Energy Benefits of Distributed Energy Resources August 2021, blog by Owen Connolly
- NESP Newsletter June 2021
- NESP Newsletter March 2021
- How Can We Better Account for Economic Development in Benefit-Cost Analysis? blog by Shayna Fidler, Julie Michals, and Devin Hubbard