Appendix E: Mini-Lesson #3— Further Discussion of the RIM and TRC Preliminary Cost-Effectiveness Screening Tests for DSM

The RIM and TRC preliminary cost-effectiveness screening tests for DSM options have probably been the subject of more prolonged discussion over the last several decades than any other single utility resource planning-related issue that I am aware of. This has certainly been the case in the state of Florida and I seem to continually run into cases in other states where the issue of the two preliminary screening tests has again resurfaced. We discussed the basics of these two preliminary cost-effectiveness screening tests in Chapter 6. In this mini-lesson, we shall discuss the two tests a bit more.

As evidenced by the discussion ...

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