Optimal Energy

Optimal Energy’s Cost Effectiveness Screening Tool is a key element of our analysis capabilities. The tool provides a foundation for strategic planning efforts by assessing and accounting the costs and benefits of both individual applications and comprehensive portfolios, supporting short-and long-term evaluations of strategies and offered services.

The tool is highly versatile and multifaceted yet transparent. It is a spreadsheet-based software application, and is in use today at numerous utilities for efficiency program analysis.

Among the tools many capabilities are:

Full accounting of technology costs, including capital, fuel, operating and maintenance, and cost offsets such as non-electricity savings (e.g. gas) and non-energy benefits (e.g.water).

Proper accounting for the benefits of electric energy and demand savings from efficiency and renewable technologies, calculated using annual values of long-run avoided costs.

Precise treatment of various timing effects, including different lifetimes, multiple electricity costing periods, and proper handling of cost and savings shifts over time due to early retirement of existing inefficient equipment with high-efficiency technologies.

In-depth treatment of long-term market effects, including changes in technology costs and performance over time (e.g. reductions in technology costs due to market transformation), and projections of market penetrations under business as usual and under different policy initiatives.

Full reporting of electricity, economic, and environmental impacts over time.

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