Other Provisions Affecting the PSC and Other State Agencies

PSC Exercise of Regulatory Authority
- The commission shall exercise its regulatory authority to ensure that the maximum reductions in the use of and demand for electricity and natural gas are achieved through the implementation of cost−effective energy efficiency and conservation programs, utility demand response and load management programs, and tariffs designed to reduce energy use, while taking account of the costs and benefits for customers and the need to maintain a highly reliable system capable of delivering an adequate supply of electricity and natural gas at reasonable cost.

Energy Conservation and Efficiency Programs
- Under current law, in a proceeding before the PSC in which an electric public utility is a party, the PSC shall not order or otherwise impose energy conservation or efficiency requirements on the electric public utility if the PSC has fulfilled all its duties under Wis. § 196.374 and any of the following is satisfied:
  - The electric utility has satisfied the requirements of Wis. § 196.374 for the year prior to commencements of the proceeding or,
  - If the electric public utility is a municipal utility, the PSC determines that the electric public utility has, on average over the 4 years preceding the commencement of the proceeding, met, in the aggregate, the quadrennial goals established in § 196.374 (3) (bn) 1. f. in this bill, for the electric public utility or the PSC determines that the electric public utility has made a good faith effort to meet the goals during the 4-year period.
Statewide Energy Conservation Goals Assessment (Wis. Stat. § 196.025 (7); Section 69; p. 73)
- No later than July 1, 2013, and at least every 4 years thereafter, the commission shall prepare and provide to the DNR an assessment of progress toward meeting the statewide energy conservation goals.