I. Energy situation in the West (3 pages including charts)

a) Growth driving demand (cite demographic trends and energy uses)
b) Changing regulatory environment for electric power
c) Energy markets in the WRAP region (changes in structure of the economy including potential Internet impacts, associated environmental background (e.g. regional haze), fuel mix (include various scenarios of gas prices and demand growth), governmental jurisdiction (e.g., FERC jurisdiction, international markets))

II. List of challenges currently facing the West (5 pages including charts)

a) Air quality (impacts from current generation, planned generation additions to meet growing demand, and backup power generators)
b) Electricity price volatility resulting from an inadequate demand side response to prices
c) Electric system reliability issues (adequacy of electricity supplies, and constraints on electric power resources)
d) Reduced investment in utility energy efficiency programs due to restructuring in electric markets
e) Electric power transmission and generation siting concerns
f) Equity issues

III. The role energy efficiency and demand-side energy management can play as a potential solution to the problems outlined in Section II (5 pages)

a) Efficiency measures to reduce overall emissions from electricity generation
b) Efficiency measures as a tool to mitigate price shocks and reduce electricity prices
c) Efficiency measures to reduce the need for the siting and investment in new generation and transmission facilities
d) Available policy tools to employ efficiency measures to address challenges facing the West:

• Mandates
• Financial incentives
• Education
• Market transformation tools
• New vs. retrofit efficiency options
• Supply-side generation efficiency options

IV. AP2 Forum's recommended "best energy efficiency practices/programs" by sector (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial, electric generation)

This section will contain information on a portfolio of best energy efficiency practices and programs recommended by the Air Pollution Prevention Forum. A synopsis of each best practice will be provided that includes:

1. Description of the practice or program
   
2. Explanation of the public policy rationale for the policy or program including a discussion of whether the measure is consistent with deregulated markets
   
3. Examples of implementation
   
4. Political feasibility of practice or program
   
5. Summary of costs and benefits for each practice or policy (the Forum may use the ICF model for an evaluation of an aggregation of all the policies)
   
6. Interaction with other potential policy options and discussion of any need for regional coordination to enhance the effectiveness of the practice or program.
   
7. Whether and how the practice can be quantified in state implementation plans
   
8. Required actions to implement the practice or program

WRAP and the Air Pollution Prevention Forum
Energy efficiency language of the GCVTC and Section 309
Background data referenced in the body of the report