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Benefits for Customers, Utilities, and Society . . . . . 4National Assessment of Efficient Electrification . . . . 7State-Level Assessments of Efficient Electrification . . . 9Electric Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Water and Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Air Pollutants and Toxics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15End Use Energy Efficiency and Demand Response . 17Understanding Electric Utility Customers . . . . . . . 19Electrification for Customer Productivity . . . . . . . 21Energy, Environmental, and Climate Policy Analysis . 23Fostering Plug-In Electric Vehicle Adoption . . . . 25Indoor Agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27The Next Generation Heat Pump . . . . . . . . . . 29

EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION AT EPRI

WHAT IF WE COULD ACHIEVE…• Economic Advantages

• Environmental Enhancements

• Operational Improvements

…simultaneously by using an integrated portfolio of:

• Science and Technologies

• Tactical and Strategic Guidance

• National and State Level Efficient Electrification Assessments

THE GOALThese advances are the aim of EPRI’s Efficient Electrification Initiative. By accelerating development and demonstration of a diverse set of electric technologies; by assessing the costs, benefits, and barriers to electrification; and by building a collaborative infrastructure to support short- and long-term, tactical, and strategic solutions, EPRI’s R/D/D can help electric-system stakeholders realize the benefits of efficient electrification for customers, utilities, and society.

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POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION

• Increased economic productivity

• Reduced costs for customers

• Improved electric asset utilization

• Improved water and air quality

• Reduced CO2 emissions

• Reduced water consumption

• Improved human health and safety

• Increased grid flexibility

• Improved performance of customer end uses

• Increased customer choice

• Improved customer satisfaction and energy utilization

ABOUT THE RESEARCH

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EPRI’s Efficient Electrification Initiative is aligning and expanding EPRI’s research and development portfolio of programs and supplemental projects to:

• Analyze electrification’s costs and benefits to electricity consumers, utilities, and society

• Develop and demonstrate advanced electric technologies

• Support effective implementation of comprehensive electrification strategies

• Inform all industry stakeholders on the costs and benefits associated with electrification

EconomicEnvironmental and

SocietalOperational

SCIENCE AND ASSESSMENTSEXPLORING CURRENT AND

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

MEASURING THE OUTCOMES

• A national assessment of efficient electrification

• State efficient electrification assessments

• Ongoing, in-depth analyses of electrification scenarios

• Quantification of air quality improvements

• Assessment of water availability/quality, environment, ecosystems, and biodiversity impacts and benefits of electrification

• Electric transportation

• Indoor agriculture

• Industrial process devices and systems

• Next generation heat pumps

• Improved productivity for electric assets

• Increased energy efficiency

• Choices and control for electric utility customers

• Adoption strategies for electric transportation

• Improved air and water quality, as well as worker safety

• Maximized R&D value through EPRI’s collaborative research model

• The national electrification assessment communicates costs, benefits, barriers, and opportunities for efficient electrification in the United States, laying the groundwork for near- and long-term benefits.

• The state-level electrification study addresses local circumstances, barriers, drivers, and strategies for efficient electrification.

• Environmental assessments quantify the ecological impacts and benefits of electrification to aid informed policy and decision making.

• Indoor agriculture can provide high-quality produce with reduced chemical usage, as well as reduce water consumption by up to 90%.

• Efficient electrification improves the use of utilities’ assets to spread overall utility operating costs and to reduce customers’ bills.

• Electric vehicles have lower maintenance costs and are less harmful to the environment; in addition, the diversified fuel use increases energy security.

• Advanced heat pumps reduce customers’ energy bills, improve customer comfort, and increase flexibility to meet grid needs.

SAMPLE BENEFITS

HOW TO LEARN MOREThe EPRI Customer Assistance Center, 800.313.3774, 650.855.2121, [email protected], www.epri.com

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About EPRI:The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI, www.epri.com) conducts research and development relating to the generation, delivery and use of electricity for the benefit of the public. An independent, nonprofit organization, EPRI brings together its scientists and engineers as well as experts from academia and industry to help address challenges in electricity, including reliability, efficiency, affordability, health, safety and the environment. EPRI’s members represent approximately 90 percent of the electricity generated and delivered in the United States, and international participation extends to more than 30 countries. EPRI’s principal offices and laboratories are located in Palo Alto, Calif.; Charlotte, NC; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Lenox, Mass.

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National Assessment of Efficient Electrification in the U.S.

Innovative Analyses of the Feasibility, Value, and Evolution of Expanded Electrification for Consumers, Utilities, and Society

A first-of-its-kind national assessment of the potential costs and benefits of expanded electrification over the next 30 years (based on current knowledge and assumptions) will: • Evaluate the drivers, feasibility, and benefits of adopting electrification technology in the United States• Document strategies for increasing use of efficient electrification technologies that could increase the share of

electricity as a percent of total annual U.S. energy usage from 19% (current) up to 50% (by 2050), as well as significantly reduce CO2 emissions with associated benefits for all stakeholders

• Determine the composition of energy demand and load shape impacts across the transportation, residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors, as well supply-side impacts

• Identify key issues for further investigation and enhance awareness of the potential values of expanded electrification

BENEFITSUtility Customer

• Receive initial information that helps inform their long-term thinking on electrification

• Increase understanding of the benefits from large-scale deployment electrification in the forms of cost savings, flexibility, comfort, convenience, safety, health, security, and quality of life

• Learn of opportunities to work with utilities and other stakeholders to enhance their productivity, lower their costs, protect their health and safety, provide comfort and convenience, and ensure stewardship of the environment—on a national scale

Electric Utility• Gain an important baseline understanding of efficient

electrification to inform integrated resource planning, grid operations, regulatory interactions, and customer and stakeholder communications

• Improve proactive planning and take advantage of emerging opportunities though accelerated actions

• Receive information that can inform policy and regulatory entities, consumers, and other stakeholders on the value of efficient electrification

• Increase understanding of customer choice and satisfaction through their participation in an initiative that provides many consumer benefits

Society• Gains a broader perspective and awareness of the value of expanded electrification, as well as the drivers and feasibility

of significantly expanding efficient electrification in the United States• Enables key infrastructure planning that balances the needs for economic productivity and competitiveness, energy security,

power system reliability and resiliency, public health and safety, and environmental stewardship• Recognizes the myriad benefits of expanded electrification more quickly and efficiently, through a process that engages all

stakeholders, identifies impediments to address, and enhances planning for desired outcomes• Gains improved air and water quality that will yield increased benefits over time


Allen Dennis, 865.218.8192, [email protected] • Francisco de la Chesnaye, 202.293.6347, [email protected]

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RESEARCH NEEDS

Adoption and use of energy technologies and solutions that increase the share of total energy use served by electricity can increase economic productivity; lower costs of products and services; reduce CO2 emissions; enhance air quality; reduce water consumption; improve public health and occupational safety; and enhance grid performance and asset utilization. EPRI’s Efficient Electrification Initiative is aligning and expanding EPRI’s research and development portfolio to:• Analyze electrification’s costs and benefits to electricity

consumers and producers, and to society • Develop and demonstrate advanced electric technologies • Support effective implementation of comprehensive

electrification strategies For more information, contact: Rob Chapman, 650.855.7972, [email protected]

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The U.S. electrification assessment is designed to answer the following questions on a national scale:• What is the value of expanded electrification?• What are the drivers of expanded electrification?• How will the electricity demand evolve across sectors,

regions, and technologies?• What will the entire energy system look like?• What are the research needs for technologies and

analytics to enable efficient electrification?This national assessment framework will support subsequent state-level studies of expanded electrification.


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EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION AT EPRIState-Level Assessments of

Expanded Efficient Electrification A tailored assessment of the potential benefits of expanded efficient electrification in U.S. states over the next several decades will: • Conduct tailored assessments as requested by participating utilities• Provide energy system assessment for various state-specific scenarios• Conduct environmental assessments focused on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions that include

environmental considerations (for instance, water resources)• Conduct electric technology assessments that include energy and non-energy benefits, market penetrations,

and load shapes across residential, commercial and industrial customer sectors in the state• Develop long-term implementation plans for electric technologies in particular states• Perform a high-level assessment of transmission impacts

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Gains improved understanding of the likely benefits of expanded electrification in their state in the form of cost savings,

flexibility, comfort, convenience, safety, health, security, and quality of life• Benefits from insights on expanded electrification that are tailored to their specific needs • Learn of opportunities to work with their utility and other stakeholders that understands their particular needs and seeks to

enhance their productivity, lower their costs, protect their health and safety, provide comfort and convenience, and enhance stewardship of the environment.

Electric Utility• Gain insights on electrification in their state that are

tailored to the state’s economic activity and customer impacts, regulatory activities, climate zone, relative fuel prices, household characteristics, and policies

• Receive detailed information on how to best integrate expanded electrification into their corporate goals, long-range planning, integrated resource planning, grid operations and planning, regulatory compliance planning, and customer communications

• Gain an important baseline understanding of efficient electrification to inform in-house strategic partners supporting integrated resource planning, grid operations, regulatory interactions, and customer and stakeholder communications

• Obtain perspective on how to integrate expanded electrification into existing and future infrastructure

Society• Gain awareness of the drivers and feasibility of

significantly expanding efficient electrification in parts of the United States that have diverse needs.

• Gains a state-specific perspective on the value of expanded electrification

• Enables infrastructure planning that is tailored to regions and states which balances the needs for economic productivity and competitiveness, energy security, power system reliability and resiliency, public health and safety, and environmental stewardship

• Realizes state-based benefits of expanded electrification more quickly and efficiently, through a process that engages all stakeholders, identifies impediments to address, and enhances planning for desired outcomes

• Addresses location-specific environmental issues related to electrification, including air and water quality and CO2 emissions, to enable better informed regulatory and state-level decision making


Allen Dennis, 865.218.8192, [email protected] • Francisco de la Chesnaye, 202.293.6347, [email protected]

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RESEARCH NEEDS

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The state-level efficient electrification assessments are designed to answer the following questions:• What is the value of expanded electrification in specific

states?• What are the drivers of expanded electrification in these

specific areas?• How will electricity demand evolve across customer

sectors, geographical areas, and technologies?• What will the state’s energy system look like?• What are the research needs for technologies and

analysis to enable efficient electrification in this part of the country?

• What are the key issues for and insights needed by policymakers and stakeholders to enable efficient electrification policies in conjunction with utility programs?






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Program 18: Electric TransportationAn Energy-Efficient, Clean Alternative to Petroleum

for a Rapidly Growing Customer Load

In on-road and off-road applications, electric vehicle (EV), and other electric transportation options:

• Offer an energy-efficient alternative to petroleum-fueled vehicles

• Save customers money, while empowering them to choose their mode of transportation

• Reduce the environmental impact of petroleum-based vehicles

• Provide fuel diversity, energy security, and economic growth

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Saves money over the vehicle life by switching to EVs• Gains the power to choose their transportation option• Benefits from the convenience of EV charging at home, work, and public charging stations• Realizes improved vehicle performance including quiet and smooth operation, and instantaneous torque and acceleration• Protects the environment–no tailpipe, no exhaust system, and no emissions

Electric Utility• Responds to customer expectations by helping customers

choose from various transportation options• Enables the offering to customers of an alternative

transportation technology that is projected to grow at asustained high rate into the foreseeable future

• Enhances customer relationships by guiding customerson charging infrastructure, EV value in fleet applications,and other services

• Integrates EVs as grid-connected distributed storagedevices in various applications

Society• Achieves fuel diversity and energy security by using a

stable, domestic, available fuel (electricity), rather than avolatile one (oil)

• Promotes environmental sustainability by reducinggreenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide) compared toliquid fuels

• Realizes economic growth in the global production ofelectric drives, batteries, and other aspects of the supplychain

• Improves air quality and human health


Dan Bowermaster, 650.855.8524, [email protected]

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To help advance the use of electricity as a transportation fuel, the EPRI Electric Transportation Research Program:

• Conducts research and development on EV and infrastructure technologies

• Analyzes the economic and environmental impacts of electric transportation

• Supports industry and utility programs to build public awareness of, and foundational work supporting, electric transportation in the public interest

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EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION AT EPRIWater and Ecosystems

PROGRAMS 54: Fish Protection|55: Water Availability and Ecological Risk|195: Endangered and Protected Species|196: Water Quality

Water, Environmental, and Ecosystem Benefits and Impacts of ElectrificationAnalyzing and Quantifying the Potential Benefits and Impacts of Electrification on

Water Availability and Quality, the Environment, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity

The Water and Ecosystems program area analyzes and quantifies the potential benefits and impacts to water and other resources, the environment, and ecosystems due to electrification. EPRI is developing the tools, strategies, and assessments of the water-related and ecosystem benefits/impacts of efficient electrification technologies at the national, regional, state, company, and local levels to:• Quantify the location, magnitude, and timing of electrification benefits/impacts to water quality, water availability,

environmental impacts, ecosystem services and health, rare species, and cultural assets• Identify economic sectors and subsectors in which water, environment, ecosystem services, and biodiversity can be most

improved through electrification• Assess the energy-water nexus and opportunities to both electrify and reduce demands on water and reduce energy demands

through electrification

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Gains a better understanding of water, environment, ecosystem, and biodiversity costs and benefits of electrification • Makes informed choices about their energy and water use that affect the local environment and ecosystems• Learns about the synergies between water and energy use efficiency, electrification, environmental impacts, and ecological

systems

Electric Utility• Demonstrates to regulators, customers, the public,

and other stakeholders the quantified improvements or impacts to the environment of adopting electrification technologies

• Identifies opportunities to manage operations and permits in a sustainable manner

• Defines sectors and subsectors with largest benefit from electrification programs, based upon the greatest potential ecological improvements and minimized cost

• Enhances customer satisfaction through commitment to environmental stewardship

Society• Gains a more in-depth understanding of the public

benefit regarding potential impacts and benefits of various types of electrification technologies on water, ecosystems, and biodiversity at various scales

• Provides sound and reliable information to regulatory agencies that can be used to incentivize efficiency through electrification

• Enables a wide range of stakeholders to make more informed decisions on electrification and environmental quality


Kent Zammit, 805.481.7439, [email protected]

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EPRI plans to perform energy-water planning (conservation methods and implementation) that can be used to assess the potential environmental benefits and impacts of changes to the utility generation/fuel mix and end-use electrification penetration. EPRI will conduct these analyses on various scales, using opportunities offered through participating utilities to provide results based on a range of situations. This work will help utilities and other stakeholders address both the benefits and impacts of electrification on water availability and quality, the environment, ecosystems, and biodiversity applicable to their locations and environment. This section describes R&D specifically relevant to electrification. For more information on the EPRI Research Programs contact EPRI.

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EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION AT EPRIProgram 91: Air Pollutants and Toxics: Assessments and Models

Understanding the Air Quality Benefits of ElectrificationQuantifying the Potential Improvements in Air Quality and

Resulting Benefits Due to Electrification

Tools and assessments of the air quality benefits of efficient electrification technologies:

• Quantify the location, magnitude, and timing of benefits on a national, regional, state, and company level of

reduced air emission concentrations and deposition to water and land

• Identify economic sectors and subsectors in which air quality can be most improved due to electrification

• Enable non-attainment areas to achieve attainment, with resulting economic and utility siting flexibility benefits

BENEFITSUtility Customer

• Gains cleaner air quality• Benefits from a lower incidence of human health effects

due to improved air quality• Gains a better understanding of the air quality benefits

of electrification• Makes informed choices about their energy use that

affect the quality of the air they breathe

Electric Utility• Demonstrates to regulators, customers, and the public

the quantified likely improvements in air quality of adopting electrification technologies in its service territory

• Defines sectors and subsectors with largest benefit from electrification programs in its service territory based on the greatest potential improvements in air quality, while considering other electrification benefits

• Gains credible information for development of air quality management plans and implementation plans, including filing for potential emission reduction credits

• Moves toward reaching attainment in existing non-attainment areas, with consequent benefits in economic development and generation sourcing flexibility

• Enhances customer satisfaction due to a further commitment to enhanced air quality

Society• Gains a more in-depth understanding of the national-,

regional-, and state-level potential air quality improvements, as well as economic and other environmental benefits, from various types of electrification technologies to aid electrification assessments at each level

• Provides credible information to regulatory agencies that can be used to consider incentivizing efficiency through electrification

• Enables a wide range of stakeholders to make more informed decisions on electrification and environmental quality


Eladio Knipping, 202.293.6343, [email protected] • Naresh Kumar, 650.855.8758, [email protected]

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To help utilities assess potential air quality improvements from efficient electrification, EPRI’s Research Program on “Air Pollutants and Toxics: Assessment and Models” offers various opportunities:

• A tailored supplemental project assesses these potential benefits in a particular service territory—assessing specific sources, activities, sectors and subsectors, electrification technologies, and types of air quality impacts (i.e., all non-greenhouse gas emissions).

• The overall research program enhances the assessment tools and the science behind the models. This program delivers scientifically-based tools (models) and assessments (measurements, model applications) for EPRI members, the regulatory community, and other stakeholders to aid air quality compliance activities, standard setting, asset management, and long-term strategic planning.

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Program 170: End Use Energy Efficiency and Demand Response

Technologies and Utility Programs that Reduce Utility and Customer Costs

Electric energy efficiency and demand response (EE&DR) technologies, utility programs, and leading

practices for residential, commercial, and industrial applications:

• Encompass advanced lighting, space conditioning, water heating, smart home devices, building energy

management, industrial electric technologies, sensors and controls, refrigeration, and more

• Reduce and shift load away from peak usage periods–with customer, utility, and societal benefits

• Address rising customer expectations, grid complexity, regulatory mandates, and increasing costs

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Saves money on their electric bill by reducing their peak

load use, shifting their load to off-peak periods, and other measures

• Benefits from enhanced productivity–and hence reduces costs–via adoption of EE&DR technologies

• Gains comfort, convenience, safety, and security via adoption of smart devices and EE&DR technologies

• Gains the power to choose, monitor, and control their end-use devices and processes

• Realizes improved performance in end-use commercial and industrial facilities and processes

Electric Utility• Enhances power system performance, reliability, and

resiliency via enhanced grid stability • Defers capital investments via increased capacity

resources• Reduces costs and risks of asset operation and

maintenance • Enhances resource planning via modeling and

information• Enhances customer EE&DR program development and

deployment• Responds to customer expectations and enhances

customer satisfaction by acting as an energy partner• Addresses applicable regulatory and legislative

mandates

Society• Reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by operating

the power system more efficiently• Conserves finite energy and water supplies


Ronald Domitrovic, 865.218.8061, [email protected]

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To help advance development and adoption of EE&DR technologies and programs, EPRI’s EE&DR Research Program:

• Assesses, tests, demonstrates, deploys, and provides information on EE&DR technologies

• Influences the progress of codes and standards• Develops analytical frameworks for utility EE&DR

application• Accelerates availability of EE&DR technologies and

methods• Mitigates risk and uncertainty of EE&DR pilot programs• Provides tools and techniques to integrate EE&DR into

planning processes

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Program 182: Understanding Electric Utility Customers

Making Optimal Choices on Electricity Supply and Usethat Benefit Customers, Utilities, and Society

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Gains more control over their electricity supply and use • Makes the most beneficial choices among a variety of

supply and use options• Saves money by choosing cost-effective supply and use

technologies, practices, and programs• Enhances comfort, convenience, safety, and security

through optimal choice of supply and use options• Gains an energy partner that they can trust

Electric Utility• Responds to customer expectations for beneficial choices

in electric supply and use• Enhances customer satisfaction via enhanced services• Enhances utility load forecasting and enables better

matching of loads and resources• Enhances utility operations and resource planning–

informed by likely customer choices• Enhances customer relationships by offering building

energy management services and other services

Society• Realizes the maximum benefits of efficient electrification

by providing utility customers options that they prefer and, hence, are likely to adopt


Erin Erbin, 541-214-8549, [email protected]

WHAT IT ISInsights, tools, and methods to evaluate electricity supply options (e.g., distributed resources) and

devices (e.g., smart appliances and thermostats, plug-in electric vehicles):

• Help all parties make optimal decisions regarding efficient electrification

• Enable utilities to offer customers what they prefer, while benefiting the utility and society

• Foster communication and understanding between utilities and customers to maximize the benefits

of efficient electrification to all parties

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To help utilities offer choices that customers prefer and that benefit the utilities and society, EPRI’s Understanding Electric Utility Customers Program:• Provides insights on how electricity customers interact

with electricity service plans and customer technologies• Determines how to forecast and determine impacts of

customer participation, performance, and persistence• Demonstrates how to integrate customer behavior into

utility planning and operational activities• Demonstrates ways to estimate commercial customers’

preferences for new utility program and service offerings• Describes use of advanced customer analytics

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Program 199: Electrification for Customer ProductivityJump-Start a Utility Program that Enhances

Customer Productivity

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Receives information, guidance, and support for

adopting efficient electrification technologies and practices

• Gains familiarity and understanding of efficient electrification options, enabling confident business decisions

• Benefits from enhanced productivity, profitability, and competitiveness in its operations and processes

• Reduces environmental, health, and safety impacts• Enables timely realization of efficient electrification

benefits via availability of a utility program

Electric Utility• Enables understanding of electrification opportunities

and the underpinning economics, environmental impacts, market dynamics, and regulatory constructs

• Learns how to develop a strategy, execution plan, and initial customer programs for efficient electrification

• Identifies efficient electrification technology options, and models and simulates customer adoption

• Gains initial customer program marketing materials • Increases customer engagement and satisfaction

Society• Realizes the myriad benefits of efficient electrification

sooner rather than later, by facilitating utility development of customer programs in this area


Allen Dennis, 865.218.8192, [email protected]

WHAT IT ISInsights, tools, and information for utilities to initiate a customer program on efficient electrification:

• Encompass analytics, modeling and simulation, technology and market assessment, tools, and information

utilities need to design a customer program on efficient electrification

• Facilitate customer adoption of energy-efficient electric technologies as alternatives to fossil-fueled

processes

• Enable customers to realize the inherent controllability, precision, versatility, efficiency, and

environmental benefits of electricity in commercial and industrial applications

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To help utilities develop a strategic plan and initial customer-focused program on efficient electrifications, EPRI’s Electrification for Customer Productivity Program:• Provides an analytical framework for quantifying the

electrification potential in a given region or service territory

• Provides a valuation framework that assesses the net value of electrification to business customers, the utility, and society

• Delivers a web-based knowledge base and decision support tool to help utilities screen electrification applications

• Delivers training modules on technologies to promote awareness and train sales teams

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Program 201: Energy, Environmental, and Climate Policy Analysis—Ongoing Analyses of Efficient Electrification

Scenarios, Interactions, and ImpactsIn-Depth Analyses to Inform Decisions on Policies Related to Electrification

Ongoing scenario-based analyses that inform electrification decision-making will evaluate:

• The benefits/costs, environmental, operations, efficiency, and policy impacts of electrification at the regional and national levels

• The effect of end-use electrification on system load shape and implications for generation and transmission investments

• The effect of alternative fuel price regimes on the demand and supply mix• Interactions between environmental policies impacting electric versus non-electric sectors (e.g.,

disincentives for electrification resulting from electric-only emissions constraints)• Relationships between demand-side and supply-side grid flexibility options • The economic and environmental value of integrated energy network technologies

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Benefits from better information and analysis that helps inform customer’s longer-term thinking on electrification

Electric Utility• Gains quantitative information to inform stakeholders

such as regulators, customers, and the general public, as well as to inform energy and environmental policy-making decisions relevant to efficient electrification

• Learns about the potential impacts of expanded electrification technologies on its power systems

• Gains information on projected demand interactions with supply to better manage its power grid

• Learns about potential outcomes of a variety of future scenarios via sensitivity analyses on critical parameters

• Gains this information on an ongoing basis

Society• Gains information to make better informed decisions

that benefit the public• Realizes high reliability and improved environmental

outcomes with economic efficiency• Achieves more optimal energy and environmental

policy design to realize electrification benefits• Achieves the benefits of expanded electrification while

minimizing its risks


Francisco de la Chesnaye, 202.293.6347, [email protected] • Geoffrey Blanford, 650.855.2126, [email protected]

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EPRI’s Research Program on Energy, Environmental, and Climate Policy Analysis is conducting these ongoing analyses in its project set on Economy-Wide Analysis and Electrification (P201.D). Research questions addressed include:• Identifying the most important drivers for electrification,

including technological change, carbon and other environmental policies, and new business models

• Understanding the interaction of these drivers and in particular how policy design can take maximal advantage of electrification opportunities

• Examining the impacts of electrification and other end-use shifts on electric system operation and planned improvements, such as changing load shapes, demand response, and increased demand growth over time

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PEVs offer energy efficiency, transportation life cycle cost savings, reduced environmental impact,

grid storage benefits, and enhanced fuel diversity, energy security, and economic growth. A utility-

specific market analysis to enhance PEV adoption:

• Assesses the relative importance of factors that affect PEV adoption, including location and

rate of charging, infrastructure, education and information, rate structure, utility incentives and

accommodations, and auto dealership incentives

• Quantifies consumer decision making and choice behavior related to PEVs

• Forecasts the impact of PEV market policies and programs

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Benefits from education and information on PEVs that

enables better informed decision making• Reduces transportation life cycle costs by gaining

access to rate structures, demand response programs, and utility and auto dealer incentives that maximize customer benefits from PEVs

• Benefits from broader accessibility of PEV charging stations

• Gains a partner that aids their transportation decisions• Makes the most beneficial choices among various

transportation options

Electric Utility• Learns the optimal combination of factors that best foster

PEV adoption in the service territory• Saves time and money in designing programs that

encourage PEV adoption• Enhances customer relationships through market

development practices, education, and knowledge sharing.

• Gains more accurate programs that forecast the penetration and impact of PEV additions to the electric system

• Responds to customer expectations for beneficial choices in electric transportation, supply, storage, and use

Society• Realizes the myriad of benefits of electric transportation

more quickly and efficiently


Jimmy Herren (West), [email protected] • Brian Fortenbery (East), [email protected]

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Fostering Plug-In Electric Vehicle Adoption: A Supplemental Research Project

Utility-Specific Market Analysis to Enhance the Transition to Plug-In Electric Vehicles (PEVs)

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To help utilities develop and implement the optimal combination of market programs to maximize PEV adoption, EPRI’s project on Identification of Utility Options Guiding PEV Adoption:• Develops utility-specific PEV adoption models that identify

utility options guiding PEV adoption in the service territory• Employs discrete choice experiments and other consumer

behavior modeling approaches to quantify consumer decision making

• Prepares a tailored PEV adoption forecasting model for each participating utility

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Indoor Agriculture: A Supplemental Research ProjectA Water-Saving Alternative to Traditional Agriculture

A source of sustainable food regardless of climate or population density, indoor agriculture:

• Optimizes plant growth using electric lighting, thermal, and sensing controls

• Offers an agricultural technology for customers that improves utility grid utilization

• Enables symbiotic food systems (matching hydroponic plants with aquaculture fish farming)

• Reduces water consumption for plant growth by up to 90% using hydro recycling systems

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Receives dependable, farm-to-market produce that is locally grown, harvested, and consumed• Improves diet and health via year-round availability of a wide range of nutrient-rich food • Gains opportunities for local employment at indoor farms close to their homes• Benefits from an improved urban infrastructure as empty, under-utilized, or abandoned buildings are reclaimed

Electric Utility• Enables the offering to customers of an alternative

technology in the agricultural sector • Gains more efficient use of utility grid assets• Complements growing urban-based power generation

such as distributed energy resources by building urban load

• Supports community goals for job growth, sustainability, building utilization, and food sources despite land shortages

• Offers the potential to aid in demand response programs by operating electric loads during non-peak hours

Society• Reduces water use up to 90%, compared to traditional

agriculture, conserving increasingly scarce fresh water• Improves urban infrastructure utilization, including

optimizing building use• Gains urban economic growth via local job creation in

agriculture, horticulture, growing systems, manufacturing, and control systems

• Reduces environmental impact by eliminating soil additives, pesticides, transportation pollution, refrigeration, and preservatives

• Reduces the distance fresh foods need to be transported so fresher produce is available in the community


Frank Sharp, 865.218.8055, [email protected]

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To help utilities respond to the expanding indoor agricultural trend, EPRI has established a supplemental project that aims to:• Conduct an in-depth market survey and potential study

related to the trends, concepts, economic impacts, market forces, utility potential, job creation, production efficiency gains, crop yield, and environmental impacts of indoor agriculture

• Identify additional stakeholders and analyze existing research that can assist with future phases of this work, which may include collaborative studies, laboratory evaluations, and field demonstrations

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August 2017



The Next Generation Heat Pump: A Supplemental Research Project

An Efficient, Environmentally Clean Alternativefor the Largest Residential Energy Load

The next-generation heat pump (NGHP) for residential/small commercial space conditioning:

• Offers a high-efficiency alternative to natural gas-fired and oil-fired furnaces

• Uses variable-capacity operation to save energy, enhance capacity, and add flexibility

• Saves customers money, with comfortable space conditioning in various climates

• Reduces the environmental impact of residential space conditioning systems

BENEFITS

Utility Customer• Saves money on their electric bill via alternative electric

rate structures, using the NGHP’s flexibility and efficiency• Gains comfort via improved summer humidity control and

hotter vent air in winter compared to previous heat pumps• Reduces their demand charges (where applicable) using

the NGHP’s variable-speed design• Benefits in northern latitudes due to the NGHP’s high

heating capacity even at low ambient temperatures.• Gains NGHP lifetime performance and lower cost

maintenance using built-in online, remote diagnostics

Electric Utility• Responds to customer expectations by acting as an

energy partner, offering more services, and helping its customers realize compelling benefits

• Enables the offering to customers of an alternative high-efficiency technology that is applicable to 48% of energy consumed in U.S. residences

• Meets end-use energy efficiency goals by encouraging adoption of these high-efficiency devices

• Enhances demand response to meet capacity/grid needs

• Reduces demand loading on distribution feeders; allows utility to put more devices on a feeder without making it bigger

Society• Reduces the environmental impact of space conditioning

via decreased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and improved air quality as electricity replaces fossil fuels for space heating applications


Ronald Domitrovic, 865.218.8061, [email protected] • Tom Reddoch, 865.218.8120, [email protected]

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Because residential variable-speed heat pumps are a relatively new development in the United States, their field readiness and performance properties need to be verified. In a supplemental project, EPRI plans to:• Define various use cases for NGHP field testing and

define an NGHP test protocol and metrics for evaluation• Field test NGHPs from various HVAC manufacturers

using the testing protocol to verify capacity, efficiency, maintenance needs, flexibility, CO2 reduction, and more

• Work with HVAC manufacturers to finalize NGHP design to conform to an NGHP specification

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electrification strategies. For more information, contact: Rob Chapman, 650.855.7972, [email protected]



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