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- Catalog: Features and Results of Utility-WAP Partnerships - updated continuously.
  - Case Studies of Important Programs from the Catalog
- The Local Weatherization Survey of PY 2000 Leveraged Resources and Weatherization Plus - The only national survey of what local Weatherization programs actually DO with their leveraged resources.
- Best Practices in Utility/W.A.P. Combined Programs
  - Utility/WAP Combined Programs - Advice from Peers Introduction and The Best Designs for Utility - WAP Programs: A List of Do’s and Don’ts - Summarizes successes and failures in early utility partnerships with W.A.P. Contact info for the now-wiser peer advisors is included.
  - Integrating WAP with Other Efficiency Programs: the Do’s and Don’ts - Presentation by Dave Rinebolt
- Weatherization PLUS Major Home Repair Can Produce Better Results for Payment-Troubled Utility Customers
- How Do Utility Residential Energy Efficiency Programs for Low- and Moderate-Income Consumers Work Now? What Makes Them Effective?
WHY PARTNER UTILITY PROGRAMS WITH A STATE or LOCAL W.A.P.?
Meeting Essential Needs: The Results of a National Search for Exemplary Utility-Funded Low-Income Energy Efficiency Programs - Descriptive profiles of the 24 utility-funded low-income energy efficiency programs selected by ACEEE to represent leading examples in the field.
- Coordination Between Utility and DOE Low-Income Weatherization: What do Public Utility Commissioners Need to Know? by Theo MacGregor and Jerrold Oppenheim - A short report based on interviews with actual state utility regulators.
- What Weatherizers Need to Know - Strategic issues for managers of Weatherization Plus programs: a typology of utility funding, program models and the case for coordinated delivery with W.A.P.
- Demand Side Management Opportunities for W.A.P. - Introduces programs in which Weatherizers are reimbursed through conventional utility demand-reduction programs
Utility Programs, Integrated Affordability, Bill Reduction
- Integrated Program Results
  - Utility Program Evaluations - Link to a selection of evaluations of low-income energy programs, by APPRISE, Inc. including programs in CO, NJ, OH, and PA.
    - Also, see their Multi-state overview of the results of a variety of rate-payer funded affordability programs.
  - California’s Low-Income Energy Efficiency Program (LIEE) - program provides no-cost weatherization services to low-income households who meet income guidelines.
    - ^NEW! EOS Report: Program Features: California’s Low-Income Energy Efficiency (LIEE) Program
    - KEMA Inc. Report for CA Public Utility Commission (CPUC): Final Report on Phase 2 Low Income Needs Assessment
    - CPUC’s LIEE page
  - ^NEW! EOS Report: Program Features: Pennsylvania’s Low-Income Usage Reduction Program (LIURP)
  - Report on 2005 Universal Service Programs & Collection Performance by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
  - Ohio Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) - A presentation by Dave Rinebolt
    - In-Depth Review of OH PIPP: Focus Groups
  - Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Inc. Universal Service and Energy Conservation Plan
  - Evaluation of Low-Income Program in Wisconsin
  - New Jersey Percentage of Income Payment Plan
  - LIHEAP Energy Burden Evaluation Study by APPRISE
- Bibliography of Evaluations of Energy Affordability Programs
- State-by-State Overview of Low-Income Programs in Restructuring Legislation, Regulation, and Implementation History"