http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/bie_becc_2019/rss Recent eScholarship items from 2019 Conference Proceedings Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:50:18 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ch5r7bj Since 2001, eighteen utilities in eight states have received approval from their utility regulators or oversight boards to offer tariffed on-bill programs for energy efficiency upgrades. Tariffed on-bill programs facilitate site-specific investment with site-specific cost recovery, and they are accessible to all residential customers, regardless of credit score, income, or renter status of the customer. Although most of these utilities serve relatively small service areas in rural regions, they have deployed more than $40 million for thousands of cost effective energy efficiency upgrades with a cost recovery rate averaging above 99.9%, even in persistent poverty areas. This utility business model has produced key performance indicators that diverge from loan-based on-bill financing programs. Factors such as doubling the eligible population, higher offer acceptance rates, and deeper savings have a compounding effect resulting in much higher growth in investment compared to programs... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ch5r7bj Thu, 7 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Hummel, Holmes, PhD Toth, Max S