Section 18 - Water Heater Conservation

18-A PROGRAM DESCRIPTION. The Company will conduct a Water Heater Conservation program which entails the offering of certain electric water heater conservation measures to all eligible customers without charge. The goal of this program is to provide at least 5000 packages of water heater conservation measures per year on an on going basis until such time as all eligible customers have received the service or it is no longer cost effective to continue the program.

18-B PROGRAM PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS. In order to qualify as a program participant a customer must:

1. Be a customer of the Company receiving electric service under any of the retail rate classes; and

2. Be the owner, renter, or lessor of a building or dwelling unit whose hot water is provided by one or more electric water heating tanks of a capacity of 80 gallons or less.

3. If a renter or lessor of a building or dwelling unit, have the signed written permission of the owner of the building

18-C METHOD OF DELIVERY. Service shall be delivered through one or more contractors chosen by competitive bid, either on a system-wide basis or on a company operating division basis. Such contractors shall be required to:

1. Install electric water heater conservation measures (insulation jackets, pipe wrap insulation, low-flow shower head and sink aerators).

2. If desired by customer, turn down water heater temperature and, if practical, drain sediment from water heater.

3. Agree to subject all work performed to random inspections by the Company.

4. Agree to bill the Company monthly for the charges for the performance of its activities under the program at the bid rate.

5. Agree to deliver information concerning other programs aimed at encouraging conservation efforts or investments.

6. Obtain electric water heater measure packages for the Company. A package would consist of an R-11 jacket, pipe wrap insulation, and up to two sink aerators and one low-flow shower head.

18-D REQUIREMENTS OF THE COMPANY. The Company shall be required to:

1. Design and implement promotional campaign, while keeping the Commission, Public Advocate and Office of Energy Resources informed of the contents of the promotional campaign and affording each of them an opportunity to comment in a timely manner upon the contents of such campaign.

2. Refer customers to contractor and assist, when practical, in scheduling work.

3. In soliciting bids from contractor(s) for the water heater program, to solicit bids for the installation of "seal-up" measures. These "seal-up" measures may include, but are not limited to caulking or weatherstripping of windows and doors, insulation of hot water pipes on heating systems or hot water systems whether or not such systems are electric, and sealing of various other sources of heat loss.

4. In evaluating bids, to give preference to those contractors submitting bids for both water heater and "seal-up" measures, provided that the bid price for the installation of the water heater measures does not substantially exceed the bid price of competing contractors that submit bids on the installation of water heater measures only. A statement to the effect that a contractor's ability to deliver "seal-up" measures will be a factor in bid evaluation shall be included in the request for bids. Such a Seal-Up Program will be designed to offer customers the opportunity of purchasing Seal-Up conservation measures from a contractor at a reasonable cost with no subsidy being provided by the Company.

 

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