Review of 2008 Ten-Year Site Plans - Public Service Commission

Demand-Side Management and Energy Efficiency
As previously discussed, load and energy projections are affected by many variables.
Consumer choice and lifestyle, however, serve as the foundation to controlling load and energy
demand. Florida’s utilities play an important role in educating consumers to make wise energy
decisions.
As illustrated in Figure 4 below, statewide per capita residential energy consumption usage
has increased over the past 15 years but decreased over the past 5 years. Given current population
growth projections, residential customers would need to reduce their per capita energy consumption
by more than 15 percent over the planning period in order to maintain or reduce their total energy
consumption.
Per Customer Usage (KWh/Year)
Figure 4. State of Florida: Energy Consumption per Residential Customer
17,000
16,000
15,000
14,000
13,000
12,000
1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Actual Jan 06' Forecast Jan 07' Forecast Jan 08' Forecast
Key to the reduction of energy usage is customer participation in utility sponsored demandside
management (DSM) and energy conservation programs. Since 1980, utilities have offered DSM
programs to customers based on the requirements of the Florida Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Act (FEECA). The FEECA emphasizes reducing the growth rates of weather-sensitive peak demand,
reducing and controlling the growth rates of electricity consumption, and reducing the consumption of
scarce resources such as petroleum fuels. To accomplish these objectives, the FEECA requires the
Commission to establish conservation and DSM goals and requires all IOUs and any municipal or
cooperative utility with annual energy sales of at least 2,000 GWh as of July 1, 1993, to implement
DSM programs to meet the established goals. Demand and energy goals for the seven FEECA
utilities (FPL, FPUC, 5 GULF, JEA, OUC, PEF, and TECO) were last set in July 2004. The goals set
5 Florida Public Utilities Corporation (FPUC) is a non-generating, investor-owned utility subject to FEECA’s requirements.
FPUC does not file a Ten-Year Site Plan with the PSC.
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