Last month, I wrote about the state?s proposal to revamp the Guaranteed Energy Savings Program because, as it claims, the initiative wasn?t living up to its promises.
Today, the environmental advocacy group PennFuture called on the Corbett administration to back up its claims.
The organization filed a Right to Know request for the evaluation that the administration said showed the program wasn?t yielding the energy and dollar savings that energy savings companies promised.
Comments on the proposal are due Jan. 18, but PennFuture is asking to extend that deadline until after the evaluation documents are in hand ? the organization wants a 45-day extension, but will be submitting comments by Jan. 18 just the same.
PennFuture?s release claims that ?until the Corbett Administration suspended the GESA program, more than 12 agencies were participating with 69 projects underway. These projects guaranteed energy savings of $449 million with $379 million invested by energy savings companies. The net savings up to the time of the program suspension was $54 million.?
That data comes from a 2010 assessment of the GESA program over the past decade.
Christina Simeone, director of the PennFuture Energy Center, said that the Department of General Services, which oversees the program, hasn?t offered an explanation of why some of its proposed changes are warranted.
In fact, some may be detrimental, she claimed, such as the proposal that a state engineer, rather than an energy service company engineer, perform the initial energy audit to come up with a savings plan.
Anya Litvak covers energy, transportation, gaming and accounting. Contact her at alitvak@bizjournals.com or (412) 208-3824.
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