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what additional efficiency investments are economically justified for gas heated 

 homes and to support efforts by the Council, gas companies, and other parties 

 to modify MAP to include a gas efficiency option. 



In the 1992 Resource Program, BPA recognized the need to review its 

 electricity conservation programs and incentive payments for unintended fuel 

 choice effects. The goal of BPA's programs is to acquire cost-effective 

 conservation, not to inadvertently induce consumers to choose electricity over 

 natural gas or induce consumers to stay with electric space or water heat when 

 they would have switched to natural gas absent BPA's programs. We have 

 scheduled review of all of our programs where fuel choice/fuel switching is an 

 issue Results of our initial reviews of the Long Term Super Good Cents and 

 MAP programs will be available in June, 1993. Results for other programs will 

 follow in summer and fall 1993. 



BPA is working with its customers on three or four customer-initiated projects 

 to develop better information on fuel choice costs, benefits and policy options 

 In the 1992 Resource Program, BPA determined that it had insufficient basis 

 for specific fuel choice actions beyond those noted above. We are now 

 pursuing three customer initiated projects that will provide us with better 

 information for developing sound fuel choice policy options for the 1994 

 Resource Program. These projects also provide specific economic or 

 information benefits to sponsoring customers. 



BPA is continuing work to develop information and policy options for the 

 1994 Resource Program. These activities include data development and 

 analysis, participation in the Council's Natural Gas Advisory Committee, and 



