Demand-side management (DSM)
Most recent content on this topic
Total planned DSM spending will decline through 2020
Liza Minor, Rachel Reiss Buckley | July 17, 2018
Utilities have significantly increased demand-side management (DSM) program spending in the past decade, but based on market data found in E Source DSM Insights, we expect overall spending to decrease from 2018 through 2020.
Newsletter
2018 E Source Summit for the Tennessee Valley
January 18, 2018
In April 2018, we brought Tennessee Valley utility peers together for a day of collaboration focused exclusively on your LPC, your customers, and the changes taking place across the utility industry. Download the presentations from the event.
Best practices for cost-effective DSM programs
Liza Minor, Kevin Andrews | January 12, 2018
It can be difficult to maintain program cost-effectiveness in a postlighting world. To help you learn how to build lasting cost-effectiveness, we identified best practices for four core program types as part of our series on the "Next Generation of Energy Savings."
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Swimming Upstream: When DSM Programs Can Benefit from Upstream Incentives
Melanie Wemple | November 23, 2017
When should you consider an upstream program? Have other utilities found success with this program model?
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Building resilient custom C&I programs
Liza Minor | November 14, 2017
Custom programs can help fill your utility's postlighting savings gap. Learn how to get the most savings from your custom C&I programs with these industry best practices.
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The powerful pull of plug loads
Katie Gelber | October 9, 2017
Interested in knowing how much power common appliances and devices draw? Check out this paper to find the highest power guzzlers.
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Growing Pains: How Utilities Are Meeting Increasing Efficiency Goals
Rachel Reiss Buckley | July 6, 2017
Utility spending on electric DSM has continued to increase through 2015, albeit at a slower pace than earlier in the decade. To meet these increasing goals, utilities are relying more on behavioral programs than on traditional custom and prescriptive programs. Check out our e-book for the details!
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DSM Evaluation Library
Learn more about the E Source DSM Evaluation Library, a searchable database of process and impact evaluations for energy efficiency and demand response programs.
Measure Insights
Whether you’re developing technical reference manuals (TRMs), responding to utility requests for proposals, implementing programs, or evaluating them, E Source Measure Insights speeds up the process by putting the critical TRM data at your fingertips.
Measure Insights
March 2, 2021
E Source Measure Insights speeds up program-planning time by consolidating all the important technical reference manual data in a structured online database of deemed savings values and other measure-specific assumptions on which utilities base their demand-side management program calculations.
