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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2009
Grad gives paper on energy efficiency programs
Erinn Monroe presented a paper at the Association of Energy Service Professionals’ 19th Annual National Energy Services Conference in January. The paper discusses how Commonwealth Edison engaged market providers to deliver energy efficiency programs to businesses in the service territory.
“We promoted the program by working through the supply chain (with market providers) instead of marketing directly to customers,” says Monroe, a program manager with Commonwealth Edison in Illinois since early 2008. “We have found this is a more cost-effective approach to acquiring efficiency resources.”
Since graduating in 2005, Monroe has been working on demand-side management programs in the energy industry. Commonwealth Edison is an electric transmission and distribution utility that is part of Exelon, a large utility holding company.
“The program I manage helps business customers reduce their energy usage by offering financial incentives to offset the costs of capital improvements,” she says. “The three-year goal for the program is about 524,000 megawatt hours or enough to power about 58,000 homes for a year.”