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ogram spending in order to adhere to the $173.0 million investment level for the 2023-2025 DSM Plan period. E1's Demand Response program forecast for the now concluded 2025 season (December 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025) is 7.2 MW of availa...
AI summary E1's Demand Response program underperformed in 2025, achieving 7.2 MW vs. a 17.9 MW target. Challenges since 2023 and variances requiring explanation are noted. The 2025 Plan as Approved, set by NSUARB, outlines investment and savings targets.
5 The New Home Construction program component of the New Residential program ended on December 31, 2023. The wind-up of the program 6 component was outlined in E1's 2023-2025 DSM Plan 7 Affordable Single-family Homes and Mi'kmaw Home Energ...
AI summary The New Home Construction program component of the New Residential program ended on December 31, 2023. Participation in the DSM Plan includes various subsets such as Affordable Single-family Homes and Mi'kmaw Home Energy Efficiency Project Appliance Replacements. Participation metrics are defined differently for Residential Behaviour, Demand Response, and BNI Demand Response, with specific counting methods for facilities and households.
3 6. DEMAND RESPONSE - 4 E1 launched its Demand Response program in 2023, an initiative outlined in the 2023-2025 Plan - 5 with a Performance Target of 17.9 MW. It is delivered through the Residential and BNI sector - 6 Demand Response pro...
AI summary E1 launched its Demand Response program in 2023 with a 17.9 MW target, delivered through Residential and BNI sectors. The 2024/2025 season includes Commercial/Industrial Aggregator and Residential Eco Shift pathways with specific devices. E1 will not meet its 2023-2025 Plan's capacity target, as highlighted in Table 10.
Program Components • The Residential Demand Response program component aims to help facilitate a more flexible residential load that provides residential customers with economic incentives and more visibility and control of their loads. E1...
AI summary The Residential Demand Response program, implemented by E1 (EfficiencyOne), aims to provide residential customers with economic incentives and load control through a pilot pathway featuring four eligible devices: domestic hot water direct load controllers, smart thermostats, EV telematics and chargers, and home battery storage systems.
Residential Demand Response Highlights - The Residential Demand Response program component achieved 0.6 MW of available capacity during the 2024/2025 season (December 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025) through the Eco Shift pilot pathway, with...
AI summary The Residential Demand Response program achieved 0.6 MW of capacity in 2024/2025 through the Eco Shift pilot, but faced challenges like lower domestic hot water controller installations, slow EV telematics enrollment, and low battery participation. Installations increased in Q2 2025 via the Efficient Product Installation program.
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When comparing the current tracked participation results of 4,006 for the 2024/2025 season to the 2025 Plan as Approved, it's important to note that one of the pathways modelled in the 2023-2025 DSM Plan that was not pursued by E1 – behavi...
AI summary The 2024/2025 tracked participation results show 4,006 participants, significantly lower than the 2025 Plan as Approved, which included 39,096 participants. E1 focused on pathways with higher available capacity potential, excluding behavioural demand response and dynamic pricing with enabling technologies, which had lower participation and capacity expectations.
Development of the 2027-2031 DSM Plan The results and learnings from E1's first three years of operating a Demand Response program have informed where E1 plans to focus its attention during the five-year 2027- 2031 DSM Plan. The pathways w...
AI summary The 2027-2031 DSM Plan will focus on pathways with the highest growth potential, such as smart thermostats and domestic hot water controllers for residential demand response, and the BNI Demand Response aggregator pathway. The plan will not include previously unmodelled pathways like behavioural demand response. Despite lower participation and capacity performance, investment remains near planned levels due to program cost structures and foundational activities.
1 The largest share of Residential Demand Response costs is tied to delivery fees, which 2 include a fixed monthly delivery partner contract and a variable per-device cost for 3 integration into the Distributed Energy Resource Management S...
AI summary The largest share of Residential Demand Response costs is tied to delivery fees, including fixed monthly contracts and variable per-device costs for DERMS integration. Costs scale with enrolled devices rather than event performance, and investments focused on enrollment and platform development have informed program refinements expected to improve participation and performance.