DSM Portfolio Pro
In the world of energy efficiency, success can be difficult to define. Simply meeting conservation goals is not enough. The cost of energy efficiency and demand response resources must be justified by their economic worth to utilities, participants, ratepayers and society as a whole. At The Cadmus Group, we understand the challenge this poses to utilities and regulators.
Our Solution . . .
At The Cadmus Group, we have designed a tool to help our clients successfully determine cost-effective approaches to achieving energy efficiency goals. DSM Portfolio Pro is a cost effectiveness model that allows utilities to ascertain program cost effectiveness from multiple perspectives. It provides a link between the results of conservation and demand response potential assessment and program development and allows users to create programs from individual measures and combine them into “portfolios.” A database of common assumptions such as financial inputs, hourly load shapes and avoided costs also allows users to maintain a consistent approach to resource valuation and risk assessment across all DSM programs.
DSM Portfolio Pro Analytical Structure
A Closer Look . . .
DSM Portfolio Pro has been designed to demonstrate and make use of the interconnectedness of various resource acquisition activities. Simplified workflow and automated analyses relieve our clients of time-consuming calculations, allowing for efficient and effective optimization of their DSM resource portfolios.
By allowing utilities to assess DSM resources at all levels of granularity, from the smallest detail to the big picture, this tool facilitates the design and implementation of truly successful conservation programs.
The Underlying Concept
The Underlying Structure
DSM Portfolio Pro allows users to:
- Analyze and screen individual measures
- Evaluate alternative program options
- Quantify and manage program risks
- Create and manage resource portfolios
- Standardize reporting across the organization
Key DSM Portfolio Pro Model features:
- Provides a consistent basis for all analyses
- Transparent methodology
- Frequent daily data back ups
- Ability to define security roles
- Shared access within security groups
- Ability to specify secondary fuel and other benefits for each measure
- Benefits calculated on a measure-by-measure basis
- Hourly load shapes
- Hourly avoided costs
- Flexible rate definitions (flat, seasonal, time-of-day, hourly)
- Built-in measures database
- Three sets of avoided capacity costs (generation, transmission, distribution)
- Sector-level line loss definitions
- Suite of standardized reports
- All reports easily exported into Excel, PDF, and other file formats
- Navigable reporting structure allows user to drill-down to most granular level of analysis