Program Operations

Successful Collaboration Across Multiple Utilities

• 

  Lisa Pfitzinger

  Manager, Energy Efficiency
  Black Hills Energy
  Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 

  Lawrence Rush, Jr.

  Home Energy Solutions Program Administrator
  UIL Holdings Corporation
  Orange, Connecticut
• 

  Kent Tomlinson

  Energy Efficiency Coordinator
  Southwestern Electric Power Company - An AEP Company
  Fayetteville, Arkansas

Moderator(s)

• 

  Elizabeth Chant

  Managing Consultant
  Optimal Energy
  HInesburg, Vermont

The Value of Partnerships – Electric and Gas utilities collaborate to jointly serve customers in shared territories using shared contractors to promote the Home Performance program.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the components of the partnership, its simplicity and benefits for the contractors with joint allotments, a single upload portal, and time-efficiency.”
• Understanding benefits to the customer from scheduling a single visit for both assessment and measure installations to ease of participating in joint incentives through a single contractor.”
• Understand the benefits of collaboration by utilities and implementers – maximizing energy savings goals, advertising, scheduling, joint contractor trainings and management process.”