Evaluation of energy efficiency and demand reduction programs requires solid data on important customer attributes.

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Evaluation of energy efficiency and demand reduction programs requires solid data on important customer attributes. However, data collection has been characterized as the “Achilles’ heel” of program evaluation. Care needs to be taken in choosing samples of customers for the analysis and in collecting data on the characteristics of these customers.

Applicability

• Section: sampling_analysis (corpus label other)
• Scope: evergreen_candidate
• Observed documents: 8
• Years: 2011 to 2024
• Issuers: Duquesne Light Company;Idaho Power Company;Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission;Washington Gas Light Company
• Program types: MISSING
• Jurisdictions: Idaho;Maryland;Oregon;Pennsylvania;Virginia;Washington

Sources

• [F000554, paragraph:314]
• [F009015, paragraph:338]
• [F015578, paragraph:317]
• [F021171, paragraph:232]
• [F021298, paragraph:221]
• [F021391, paragraph:228]
• [F022331, paragraph:189]
• [F023038, paragraph:201]