In an era of rising fuel prices, T&D restraints, reliability issues, and imminent greenhouse gas regulation, energy efficiency and demand-side management are at the forefront of strategic planning initiatives.

Determining the best path forward in the face of myriad opportunities and challenges is a difficult–yet essential–task.

From clarifying the potential for energy efficiency and integrated resource planning to calculating options for greenhouse gas strategies and developing action plans–Global Energy Partners offers multiple services to maximize the effectiveness of your planning and the value of your results.

To bring your ideas into fruition, Global provides strategies, advice, and expert witness testimony to help you streamline regulatory processes.

Planning is the foundation upon which all utility programs are built. Developing a solid roadmap for your energy programs will drive effective design and implementation, maximizing your success.

Global's Energy Planning Services walk clients through the different levels of the planning process and regulatory channels – efficiently and easily. Starting with the assessment of potential energy savings quantified from several perspectives, Global provides a more solid evaluation, laying the groundwork for powerful energy programs that provide results – results that support your strategic objectives and business success.

• Integrated Resource Planning
  Integrating demand-side resource objectives into supply-side planning is essential to ensure the most effective results in forecasting demand growth and achieving supply, reliability and economic goals.
• Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Potential Assessments
  Putting utility staff in the driver's seat with data and solutions allows them to more effectively assess the changing environment and build stronger energy programs.

Integrated resource planning (IRP) fulfills a range of utility objectives from consideration of national and regional issues and power quality and reliability to energy security and benefits to the local economy. However, these objectives don't always lead to a clear direction.

Global's services help companies maintain an objective analysis and process to evaluate all the various issues and produce a meaningful plan for the future. Our IRP services consider the full range of supply - and demand-side options, assessing them against a common set of planning objectives and criteria to help you more productively address demand-side efficiency and supply-side needs.

Global services help clients to:

• Establish planning objectives
• Survey energy use patterns and development of demand forecasts
• Investigate electricity supply options
• Investigate demand-side management measures
• Prepare and evaluate demand-side management and supply-side plans
• Integrate these plans into an integrated resource plan

Let Global help you support your Strategic Planning efforts for more powerful energy programs

Global's potential assessment services help you identify and value available energy efficiency potential to maximize your energy resource planning efforts and create highly effective strategic plans. Our analysis framework estimates the savings of the technical and economic potential as well as achievable potential possible through expected program participation.

To support this analysis, Global develops the appropriate list of energy efficiency measures, performs measure screening, develops technology and behavioral parameters and the baseline forecast, and estimated impacts using engineering analysis.

The result: a package of the best possible program options for use in IRP and energy program design delivered in a planning tool that enables clients to take into account changes in the marketplace, technology, and customer behavior as programs are planned and implemented.

Our approach to Energy Efficiency Potential Assessments:

• Begin with a comprehensive baseline – critical to develop an understanding of customer energy use and purchase patterns.
• Consider primary Market Analysis to augment existing sources of data
• Leverage databases and results from the National Potentials Study
• Develop Load Forecasting baseline of end-use sales and peak by sector, customer segment and a "business as usual" scenario
• Develop energy efficiency potential estimates using a "bottom-up" analysis
• Deliver a Business Planning Tool that enables customers to review and adjust estimates on a regular basis and improve management of DSM programs.

Staying Ahead of CO2 Regulation –
Putting it to Work for You and Your Customers

Global Warming is a reality that electric and gas utilities are now addressing along with other pressing energy issues. However, regulations such as California's AB 32 and evolving federal policy will pose even more of a challenge to utilities, municipalities and large energy users alike, as they are integrated into corporate strategic planning processes and operations.

Global's energy expertise in energy, industrial knowledge in water and air and understanding of a host of energy and environmental solutions provides an ideal partner in your greenhouse gas (GHG) strategic planning process. From the powerful role that energy efficiency programs can play to understanding cap and trade strategies, our experts can help you understand, manage and reduce GHG emissions, turning them into economic benefit and a positive public image.

Global's process provides flexibility and thoroughness with primary components such as:

• CO2 emissions inventory
• Projected emissions target developed with input from customers
• Application of:
• Energy efficiency, renewables and cogeneration to reduce direct and indirect emissions
• Smart energy management and other on-site capital investments to maximize economic benefit
• Carbon markets for options to sell or purchase carbon offsets

Your final deliverable: a cohesive, impactful plan you can use to integrate GHG planning into your overall strategic process.

• Global is currently conducting a national study of the potential for energy efficiency and demand response in the U.S. (National Potentials Study). This study estimates technical, economic and achievable potential across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors for four Census regions and for the nation as a whole.
• It also considers several policy and technology scenarios. A group of 100 "advisors" representing a variety of organizations and utilities across the country were invited to provide input into the study and feedback on the results.
• Once finalized, this study will represent the most accurate and detailed potential data "by specific-end use" for energy efficiency and demand response available today. Global intends to leverage this study by using it as a basis along with existing methodology to work with clients in developing service territory specific potential studies for their specific service territories.
• Develop a Reference Case forecast for 2008 through 2030 of what is -- Realistically achievable -- Technically possible through utility energy efficiency programs
• Understand the historical and expected future impact of market-driven efficiency, prices, and codes and standards
• Develop sensitivities around the Reference Case:
  • The availability of advanced emerging technologies
  • A supportive regulatory framework
  • The structure of carbon controls
  • Aggressive codes and standards
  • Pricing policies

Let Global help you support your Strategic Planning efforts

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Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
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