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Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency:

Policy, Programs and Best Practices

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Sample Terms Described in E-Textbook

Adaptation
Agency problem (Split Incentives)
Attribution
Barriers to energy efficiency
Benefits of energy efficiency
Briefing note
Building energy simulation models
Cabinet submission
Capacity market funded programs
Carbon abatement cost curve
Carbon pricing funded programs
Challenges of energy efficiency
Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM)
Community Energy Plans (CEP)
Conservation Behaviour
Consumers perspective on energy
Conversion efficiency
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Cost effectiveness tests
Critical peak pricing
Culture of conservation
Delivered energy
Demand Response (DR)
Demand Side Management (DSM)
Distribution systems
Discounted payback period
Drivers of energy efficiency
Energy
Energy Conservation Measure (ECM)
Energy demand
Energy flows
Energy efficiency
Energy productivity
Energy Service Company (ESCo)
Energy Service Performance Contract (ESPC)
Energy supply
Equation for cost savings
Evaluation, Measurement & Verification (EMV)
Free riders
Fuel substitution
General government revenue funded programs
Green lease
Gross savings
Impact evaluation
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Intervention
Jevons effect
Levelized Unit Energy Cost (LUEC)
Load duration curve
Long Term Energy Plans (LTEP)
Lost Revenue Adjustment Mechanism (LRAM)
Mandatory codes and standards
Marginal cost
Market effects evaluation
Market transformation
Minimum Energy Performance Standard (MEPS)
Mitigation
Net Present Value (NPV)
Net savings
Net to Gross ration
New technology
On site generation
Outcome evaluation
Payback period
Persistence
Policy evaluation
Policy options
Policy window
Potential for energy efficiency
Power
Power quality
Primary energy
Process evaluation
Program Administrator Cost Test (PAC)
Program development cycle
Program evaluation
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)
Quality of energy source
Rate-payer funded programs
Realization rate Reported savings
Rebound effect (Jevons effect)
RETScreen
Return on Investment (ROI)
Rosenfeld
Service plot
Shared Savings Mechanism (SSM)
Societal Cost Test (SCT)
Spillover
Standby losses (Phantom load)
System operations
Time-of-use periods and rates
Transmission systems
Total Resource Cost Test (TRC)
Voluntary programs

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