Ohio Admin. Code 122:5-3-08 - Energy efficiency and weatherization services and consumer education
(A) Allocation of
energy efficiency and weatherization services. To the extent practicable,
energy efficiency and weatherization services supported with resources from the
fund shall be targeted to the certified territories of an electric distribution
utility in the same proportion as the revenue remitted by such electric
distribution utility to the director for the fund as corresponds to the total
revenue remitted from all electric distribution utilities to the director for
the fund. In the event any electric distribution utility makes any other
funding contribution to the director to support energy efficiency or
weatherization services, such additional funding shall be targeted to delivery
of energy efficiency and weatherization services in such electric distribution
utility's service territory.
(B)
Target high-cost, high-use structures. The director shall establish and
maintain criteria designed to target energy efficiency and weatherization
services to high-cost, high-use structures, provided that such criteria may
allow flexibility to perform cost-effective energy efficiency and
weatherization services for residences of PIPP plus customers and customers then eligible to
participate in the PIPP plus program even though
such residences may not be the highest cost or highest use structures. Such
criteria may include, among others identified by the director from time to
time:
(1) the extent to which an adequate
delivery infrastructure is available to serve the targeted structures within a
particular region;
(2) the extent
to which additional training is necessary to deliver the energy efficiency and
weatherization services; and
(3)
the net present value of savings to the fund from the implementation of
particular energy efficiency and weatherization services. Any energy efficiency
or weatherization measure projected to yield a savings-to-investment ratio of
greater than one shall be considered a cost-effective measure.
(C) Rental properties. Energy
efficiency and weatherization services may be provided for a rental property
then leased to a PIPP plus customer or to a
customer then eligible to participate in PIPP plus. As a condition to providing energy efficiency
and weatherization services for a rental property, the director may require the
owner of such rental property to agree:
(1)
for the benefit of the PIPP plus customer not to
increase rent charged to such individual as a result of any investment made in
the property in connection with the energy efficiency and weatherization
services to be provided; and
(2)
to make a funding contribution toward the cost of the energy efficiency and
weatherization service where such services are likely to enhance the value of
the rental property. Replacement of consumables (e.g., light bulbs and furnace
filters) and tenant-owned appliances shall not require landlord approval or a
funding contribution from the landlord. The director may authorize service
providers to solicit and obtain landlord approval and funding contributions to
be applied against the cost of the energy efficiency and weatherization
measures provided. A funding contribution will not be required from an
individual owner of a rental property who is himself or herself eligible to
participate in the PIPP plus program. The amount
of any funding contribution received by a service provider from an owner of
rental property for energy efficiency and weatherization measures will be
offset dollar-for-dollar from the amount to be paid by the department to the
service provider for such measures.
(D) Service providers. The director shall
establish and maintain standards for the selection and performance of service
providers who offer energy efficiency and weatherization services to
participants in low-income customer assistance programs. No service provider
shall hold itself out as a department of
development services agency authorized provider
unless the service provider has a current designation of such status from the
director. The standards for authorized service providers shall require, without
limitation, service providers to:
(1) be able
to provide services which are to be paid for from the fund comparably and in
accordance with energy efficiency and weatherization program standards, as
established and amended by the office of community services
assistance
from time to time;
(2) employ
electronic data collection methods for reporting service data, cost data, and
customer eligibility data, and report all such data to the director;
(3) provide for proper verification of
service delivery; and
(4)
cooperate fully in an evaluation of such service provider's
provider's
services through an objective third-party review, which may include an on-site
evaluation, collection and analysis of pre- and post-service energy usage, and
an analysis of bill payment behavior. The director may modify the standards for
authorized service providers from time to time, and the current standards for
authorized service providers shall be made available upon request to the office
of community services
assistance and posted on the website of the
department of development
services agency.
(E) Evaluation of program effectiveness. The
director shall periodically review and analyze data collected from authorized
service providers and otherwise in connection with low-income customer
assistance programs to evaluate the results of energy efficiency and
weatherization services. In particular, the director shall determine whether
such data provides evidence of reduced energy
consumption by households receiving such services and reduced costs of electric
service provided to PIPP plus
customers.
(F) Consumer education.
To the extent practicable within the resources available from the fund for
consumer education, the director will establish and maintain a consumer
education program covering energy efficiency, energy conservation, demand
reduction, and such other subject matter as the director determines relevant
and useful for customers eligible to participate in low-income customer
assistance programs, including such materials as electric distribution
utilities may provide for distribution to their respective customers about
energy efficiency, energy conservation, and demand reduction programs the
electric distribution utility offers.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4928.53
Rule Amplifies: 4928.51 - 4928.57
Prior Effective Dates: 09/01/2000, 11/01/2010, 02/15/2015
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4928.53
Rule Amplifies: 4928.51 to 4928.57
Prior Effective Dates: 9/1/00, 11/1/10
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