From ACEEE Efficiency Program Compendium 2005

Table B2 Ranking by Spending as a Percentage of
Revenues

This chart (entered by hand, so there may be atypo or
two)ranks the fifty states for electric efficiency
program spending as afractionof total electric
revenues.  Sierra Clubis likely to pass a new policy
statement which calls for spendingbetween threeand
five percent of revenues.  This chartis somewhat dated
already – there are a number of states that I
knowhaveincreased their spending – including
Vermont,Oregon and Illinois– but I don’t have the
accurate new levels. Vermont and Oregonare definitely
spending more than 3% of revenues.  Itis unclear
whether those states haveeliminated all growth in
electric consumption, but they are very close,and itis
clear that the more states spend on these programs the
moreeffective thespending gets, largely because it
reduces the cost of the efficiencytechnologies which
the programs address.

Activists who want to do somethingabout global warming
shouldconsider whether their states might be an
appropriate place to proposeincreased efficiency
spending.  Thenational average for these programs is
3.1 cents per KWH saved.  This is often compared to
the utility’sinternal cost of generation, but the
correct comparison is against theretailprice of
electricity, which is close to 9 cents per KWH.


- Ned




Rank    State               Percentage of Revenues
Spent onEfficiency Programs

1          Vermont                       2.98

2          Massachusetts              2.38

3          Washington                 2.04

4          RhodeIsland                1.86

5          NewHampshire           1.78

6          Oregon                        1.71

7          Wisconsin                    1.39

8          NewJersey                  1.35

9          Montana                      1.25

10        California                     1.20

11        Iowa                           1.19

12        Minnesota                   1.16

13        Connecticut                 1.10

14        Maine                          0.90

15        NewYork                    0.81

16        Utah                            0.78

17        Hawaii                         0.72

18        Idaho                          0.64

19        Nevada                       0.45

20        Florida                        0.37

21        Texas                          0.34

22        Colorado                     0.27

23        Tennessee                   0.24

24        NorthDakota               0.17

25        Ohio                            0.15

26        Michigan                     0.13

27        SouthDakota               0.12

28        Kentucky                    0.10

29        SouthCarolina              0.10

30        NewMexico                0.07

31        Indiana                        0.06

32        WestVirginia                0.05

33        Arizona                       0.05

34        Illinois                          0.03

35        Pennsylvania                0.03

36        Mississippi                   0.02

37        Arkansas                     0.02

 Louisiana,Alabama,Oklahoma, Missouri0.01

 Maryland,Nebraska,North Carolina, Kansas,District of
Columbia, Delaware,Virginia and Wyominghave no
reported efficiency spending

 The U.S.average is 0.52%.
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