ABSTRACT
Over the past three decades, the state of California has developed and implemented an extensive regulatory infrastructure to mitigate the environmental consequences of energy use. A core goal of the state’s energy-environmental policy paradigm is to stimulate the adoption of technologies and practices to increase the end-use efficiency of electricity and natural gas consumption in the provision of energy services across the sectors of the economy. In turn, one of the most important means of reaching this goal is electric and gas utility-based demand-side management (DSM), which comprises a range of programs and measures that directly promote conservation practices and energy-efficiency investments on the part of residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
