8. Utilities' Comprehensive Long-Term Statewide Strategic Plan

This decision takes the next step in the Commission's recent energy efficiency decision, D.07-10-032 by providing guidance to the utilities for drafting the LIEE portion of a comprehensive long-term statewide strategic plan. D.07-10-032 laid the groundwork for "a move beyond a narrow focus on short-term savings through a broader strategic focus on long-term goals." The Commission found that "Californians would be better served by a more comprehensive approach to program planning, design, and delivery for energy efficiency." The Commission directed the utilities to file a strategic plan that is "specific enough to serve as a roadmap to meaningful action in the near term, while providing direction for future program design and development through 2020 and beyond." Consistent with these directives and the elements discussed in this decision, the utilities' state wide strategic plan, which is to be filed by May 15, 2008 shall contain a section on LIEE programs that includes the following elements:

· A general strategy for accomplishing the programmatic initiative adopted today that emphasizes long-term and enduring energy savings, ways to leverage the resources of other entities, and ways to integrate LIEE programs with other demand-side programs, especially energy efficiency programs;

· Specific program elements that emphasize long-term and enduring energy savings, specific ways to leverage the resources of other entities, and specific ways to integrate LIEE programs with other demand-side programs, especially energy efficiency programs;

· Specific strategies for improving ME&O efforts in ways that promote policy objectives and the programmatic initiative, including a program element that targets renters;

· General strategies for program delivery, which will be discussed in workshops held to implement this decision; and

· Specific program participation goals in specific population sectors or segments and budgets designed to meet those goals, consistent with D.06-12-038.⁶⁴

⁶⁴ D.06-12-038, Ordering Paragraph 23.