DEFG LLC Reports

2011 - November ABACCUS

ABACCUS Report. The Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS) identifies successful competitive retail electricity markets.

2011 - November Regulatory Choices 07

A Method for Estimating the Conservation Effects of Energy Prepayment. The seventh in a Series of Regulatory Choices considers energy conservation and energy prepayment.

2011 - September Regulatory Choices 06

Low Income Consumer Issues and Voluntary Prepaid Energy Offerings:  Perspectives from Three Industry Thought Leaders. The sixth in a Series of Regulatory Choices considers prepaid energy and low income consumers.

2011 - July Regulatory Choices 05

Resource Adequacy and the Cost of Reliability. The fifth in a Series of Regulatory Choices considers resource adequacy and the cost of reliability to initiate the 2012 Resource Adequacy Working Group.

2011 - April EcoPinion 11

Resurgence for Retail Electricity Choice and Competition? The eleventh EcoPinion survey report addresses consumer perceptions and attitudes in regard to consumer desire for more choices and more competition in the retail electricity sector.

2011 - March EcoPinion 10

Lighting the Path Forward for Greater Energy Efficiency. The tenth EcoPinion survey report addresses consumer perceptions around residential lighting efficiency.

2011 - February Regulatory Choices 04

Regulatory Issues and Questions Presented by Voluntary Prepay Options Offered by Utilities. The fourth in a Series of Regulatory Choices considers prepay for utility services.

2011 - January EcoPinion 09

Is Prepay the Way? The ninth EcoPinion survey report considers consumer perceptions and expectations around prepay for utility service.

2010 - December Prepay

Prepay Online Industry Survey. The Prepay Online Indsutry Survey was conducted in November 2010. There were nearly 600 respondents.

2010 - December ABACCUS

ABACCUS Report. The Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS) report identifies successful markets and explains the policy choices that led to those successes.

2010 - September Regulatory Choices 03

Local Governments and Federal Agency Clash Over Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs. The third in a Series of Regulatory Choices considers PACE programs.

2010 - June Project Energy Code 05

Nudges for Energy Conservation. The fifth Project Energy Code report considers behavioral economics.

2010 - May EcoPinion 08

Separating Smart Grid from Smart Meters. The eighth EcoPinion Survey highlights consumer perceptions and expectations of smart grid.

2010 - May Regulatory Choices 02	Feed-In Tariffs and Renewable Resource Policy Tradeoffs. The second in a Series of Regulatory Choices considers feed-in tariff policy.
2010 - April Project Energy Code 04	Why Germany? Why Solar? A Political Economic Analysis. The fourth Project Energy Code looks at German industrial policy.
2010 - March EcoPinion 07	Energy Star Shining Bright? EcoPinion Consumer Survey Points to Challenges Ahead. The seventh EcoPinion Survey considers the Energy Star brand.

2010 - February Regulatory Choices 01

New York City’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan. The first in a Series of Regulatory Choices considers New York City’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan which is comprised of four laws.

2009 - December ABACCUS	ABACCUS Report. The Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS) report identifies successful markets and explains the policy choices that led to those successes.
2009 - October EcoPinion 06	Green Gap Redux: Green Words Gone Wrong. This sixth EcoPinion Survey confirms that consumers generally have positive associations with commonly used terms; however, consumers do not understand the meaning of the terms or perceive personal relevance or value.
2009 - April Project Energy Code 03	Using a Values-Based Model to Improve Customer Communications and Marketing. EcoAlign has released the third report, "Cracking the Green Code: Using a Values-Based Model to Improve Customer Communications and Marketing” by research psychologist John Marshall Roberts.

2009 - February Project Energy Code 02

Increasing Energy Efficiency Through Decentralized Coordination. EcoAlign has released the second report in the Project Energy Code series: "Markets, Technology and Institutions: Increasing Energy Efficiency Through Decentralized Coordination," by distinguished economist Dr. Lynne Kiesling.

2008 - December ABACCUS

Residential ABACCUS Report; C&I ABACCUS Report.  The Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS) reports identify successful markets and explain the policy choices that led to those successes. One report focuses on the residential sector (mass markets) and the other on commerical and industrial (C&I) customer choice.

2008 - November EcoPinion 05	Climate Change and Consumers: The Challenge Ahead. This fourth EcoPinion Survey focuses on consumers and climate change: customer feelings and levels of personal responsibility in regard to reducing climate change, willingness to take action and what type of actions, perceptions of costs, who should pay and how new revenue should be used.
2008 - October Project Energy Code 01	Visibility, Ambivalence and Trust: Cultural Stumbling Blocks to Greater Household Energy Efficiency by Dr. Pippa Chenevix Trench. The first Project Energy Code report provides critical thinking on why consumers who may "talk the talk" in relation to understanding global warming and the need for energy conservation do not "walk the walk."
2008 - August EcoPinion 04	Banking the Green: Customer Incentives for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Offerings. This fourth EcoPinion Survey focuses on customer incentives: what type of incentives or promotions will motivate customers to adopt green offerings or program offerings, and how companies, particularly utilities, should deliver and drive customer awareness of customer incentives.
2008 - March EcoPinion 03	Branding Green but Seeing Red. This third EcoPinion Survey focuses on branding: how companies and utilities prove and talk about their level of environmental commitment to the consumer and, conversely, the level of awareness of consumers around these brands.
2008 - January EcoPinion 02	Consumer Perceptions of Green Technologies. The second EcoPinion Survey provides further evidence of a green gap between willingness to adopt or purchase green products, services and technologies, and consumer value perceptions around those offerings.  While concern for the environment is at an all time high, consumers think that many forms of green technology ... are cost prohibitive ...
2007 - November EcoPinion 01	The Green Gap: Communications and Language. The EcoPinion Survey confirms the existence of a "green gap" between the communications and language commonly used by companies and stakeholders in the energy and environment space, and customers’ understanding, acceptance and perceptions of value around terms such as energy efficiency ...
2007 - May ABACUS 2007	ARC's Baseline Assessment of Choice in the United States:  An Assessment of Restructured Markets. ABACUS is designed to assess each state on its progress in implementing retail competition ... Retail electricity choice is thriving in Texas and New York because the market structure has advanced sufficiently for competitive markets to work effectively.
2007 - May Alternative Energy Market Survey	2007 Alternative Energy Market Survey. Respondents are strongly bullish about industry growth prospects. As an investment, more than one-half the respondents call the AE sector a "buy.” High energy prices and favorable regulation are positive factors in sector growth and outlook.

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