This is embarrassing.
Here is the first sentence of a post on the Sierra Club’s Compass blog by Washington attorney Zach Fabish, who represented the Sierra Club in the Harrison PSC case:
On October 7, the West Virginia Public Service Commission issued an order requiring FirstEnergy to, among other things, double its energy efficiency target to one percent annually by 2018. [emphasis mine]
I’m surprised, because I thought Mr. Fabish negotiated the settlement with FirstEnergy to transfer the Harrison Power Station to my electric bill.
Here is what the settlement (Appendix A of the final order) actually says:
The Companies’ achievement of this target may either: (i) be independent of the current energy efficiency programs in place; or (ii) may incorporate energy savings achieved through the Companies’ existing energy efficiency programs to achieve a 1% cumulative gross savings in the 2017/18 delivery year based on the average of 2009 distribution sales and2013 distribution sales. [emphasis mine]
Mr. Fabish, 1% cumulative gross savings by 2018 is not “one percent annually by 2018.”
Was this an honest mistake, or another Sierra Club misrepresentation of the settlement?
Wow! The fantasy and denial just keeps getting worse.