Kennedy Malcolm Ruling Soliciting Post-Workshop Comments on Energy Efficiency Potential Workshop and Scheduling and Soliciting Pre-Workshop Comments for the Workshop on Consumer Needs

Questions For Workshop on Customer Needs

Parties may answer any or all of the following questions:

1. Are you aware of the variety of energy efficiency programs offered by the investor owned utilities or through the state? If so, have you participated in any of these programs? If not, what could be done to make it easier for you to become aware of state energy efficiency programs?

2. For those of you who have participated in an energy efficiency program, how would you describe your experience in the program? Did the program meet your expectations?

3. What investments have you, your constituency or your company made to make your facility or business more energy efficient and what factors drove or motivated these investments?

4. If you, your constituency or your company has not invested in cost effective energy saving measures, please describe why. Address regulatory, financial, legal, information, institutional and other possible barriers to energy efficiency investment.

5. Which information sources, technical services and/or financial incentives have been most successful in motivating investments in energy efficiency and why?

6. How can government-funded programs improve energy efficiency in schools, hospitals and government buildings?

7. How can we improve coordination between government, manufacturers, program providers, and customers to promote customer interest and investment in more energy efficient technologies or practices?

8. How can government-funded programs go beyond the efficiency levels required by current government standards to increase energy efficiency in new construction, while still meeting public needs and functional energy requirements?

9. What other questions, if any, should the Commission consider as part of the agenda for this Customer Needs workshop?

Parties may file pre-workshop statements that answer these questions no later than December 5, 2003. Statements should be no longer than 10 pages. Parties should serve their statements electronically on the proceeding service list. Parties' comments will inform the workshop agenda. If you have any questions concerning the workshop, please contact Lainie Motamedi at lrm@cpuc.ca.gov.

IT IS RULED that:

1. The Commission will conduct a workshop as described herein at 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, on December 15, 2003, at 10:00 a.m.

2. Responses to the questions for Workshop #1 must be filed with the Commission no later than January 7, 2004 and may be served on parties electronically.

3. Responses to the questions in preparation for Workshop #2 must be filed with the Commission no later than December 5, 2003 and may be served on parties electronically.

Dated October 30, 2003, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ BRIAN PRUSNECK for SPK

Susan P. Kennedy

Assigned Commissioner

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that I have by mail this day served a true copy of the original attached Assigned Commissioner's Ruling Soliciting Post-Workshop Comments on Energy Efficiency Potential Workshop and Scheduling and Soliciting Pre-Workshop Comments for the Workshop on Consumer Needs on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record. In addition, service was also performed by electronic mail.

Dated October 30, 2003, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ FANNIE SID

Fannie Sid

NOTICE

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