The Public Utility Commission of Texas regulates the state's electric, telecommunication, and water and sewer utilities, implements respective legislation, and provides customer assistance in resolving consumer complaints.
The PUCT's Energy Efficiency Division (EED) oversees energy efficiency programs administered by the eight investor-owned utilities (IOUs). These programs ensure all IOU residential consumers and participating distribution-level commercial customers have access to energy efficiency programs. EED staff work with an Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) contractor — Tetra Tech — to evaluate these programs annually and ensure the IOUs meet their energy efficiency goals mandated by the Public Utility Regulatory Act. The EED also makes regulatory recommendations to the Commission on energy efficiency policies, procedures, and rules.
Energy Efficiency Implementation ProjectFall Meeting
Tuesday, October 07 9:30 am
Learn more about energy efficiency programs and partners for each IOU by clicking the utility name.
IOUs provide energy efficiency services to underserved consumers through low-income (LI) and hard-to-reach (HTR) programs. ERCOT IOUs must offer programs serving LI households while all eight IOUs provide HTR programs. The charts below show IOU budget and demand reduction goal performance for programs serving these consumers for program years 2021-2023.
ERCOT IOU HTR Demand Reduction GoalsCompared to Actual Demand Reductions
ERCOT IOU Low-Income BudgetaryGoal Performance
Outside-of-ERCOT IOU HTR Demand Reduction GoalCompared to Actual Demand Reductions