99 



25 



Please provide an estimate of the total expenditures to date of the "Super 

 Good Cents' program in areas vAitxe natural gas service is currently available. 

 Please estimate the budget savings that would resuh from a termination of the 

 Super Good Cents program in areas currently served by natural gas per fiscal 

 year from FY 1994 to FY 1998. 



It is difficuh to estimate the expenditures for areas in which gas is available, 

 because expenditures are done by utility and gas is not equally available 

 within each utility, even when gas is available to a part of the service area. 

 Nevertheless, we estimate that between FY 1985 and FY 1992, BPA paid 

 incentives of $8.4 million for new construction where gas is currently 

 available. 



The Super Good Cents Program covers both single family and multifanuly 

 construction. We estimate that, if the Super Good Cents Program were 

 terminated in the areas served by natural gas, BPA expenditures would be 

 reduced by $3 to $5 million in each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1998, and 

 2.0 average megawatts of electrical efficiencies would be lost in multifamily 

 construction in those areas. 



It is my understanding that a study has been conducted which compares the 

 costs of BPA conservation programs per unit of energy saved to the costs 

 incurred by certain Northwest utilities per unit of energy saved. Please provide 

 a copy of this study and explain the differences in conservation costs, if any, 

 between BPA and regional utilities. 



We have not conducted such a study, nor were we aware of any such study. 

 Further, the Northwest Power Planning Council, in preparing its "Green 

 Book", did not discuss the issue of cost/kilowatt hour. Such comparisons are 

 extremely sensitive with regard to whether the "achieved" savings are 



