Extracted Data From: Energy Savings and Impacts Scenario Tool (ESIST)

This submission includes publicly available data extracted in its original form. Please reference the Related Publication listed here for source and citation information. If you have questions about the underlying data stored here, please contact ESIST at [e-mail]. If you have questions or recommendations related to this metadata entry and extracted data, please contact the CAFE Data Management team at: [e-mail]. The Energy Savings and Impacts Scenario Tool (ESIST) Version 1.2 is a customizable and transparent Excel-based planning tool for analyzing the energy savings and costs from customer-funded energy efficiency programs and their impacts on emissions and public health. ESIST enables users to develop, explore, and share energy efficiency scenarios between 2010 and 2045. ESIST users first select a study area based on states, utility types, specific utilities, or different customer sectors within a utility. Users can adjust inputs, including electricity sales growth forecasts, energy efficiency savings goals, program budgets, savings expiration schedules, discount rates, and first-year costs. The tool allows users to compare levels of energy efficiency savings, annual costs, and levelized costs of saved energy. ESIST users can then estimate multiple benefits that could result from the user-generated energy efficiency scenario—including avoided emissions, public health benefits, peak demand impacts, and energy burden reductions—and review customer demographic data. ESIST focuses primarily on energy efficiency savings in the electricity sector. The ESIST: Pilot Gas Version 1.2 is focused on natural gas savings from energy efficiency or other gas-saving measures in the in the residential and commercial sectors. [Quote from: https://www.epa.gov/statelocalenergy/energy-savings-and-impacts-scenario-tool-esist#About]