Friday, November 13 Small Group SAG Meeting

The purpose of the November 13 meeting:

1. To discuss evaluation treatment of business closures, an issue raised during a June SAG meeting to discuss COVID-19 evaluation impacts.
2. To discuss questions raised by Guidehouse on treatment of negative savings by evaluation.

Agenda for Friday, Nov. 13 Small Group Evaluation Meeting

Evaluation Treatment of Business Closures (Joint Presentation by Opinion Dynamics and Guidehouse)

Evaluation Treatment of Heating Penalties and Negative Savings (Guidehouse Presentation)

Background materials:

• Guidehouse and Opinion Dynamics Memo: Treatment of Business Closure in Estimating Lifetime Savings (Sept. 10, 2020)
• Guidehouse Memo to ComEd: Treatment of Negative Electric and Gas Savings by Evaluation (Aug. 4, 2020)

Follow-up: Attendee List and Meeting Notes from Nov. 13, 2020 Meeting

Documents for Review (Circulated on 11/30/2020; Comments Due on 12/11/2020):

1. Heating Penalties and Negative Savings (Policy Resolution)
2. Business Closure (Five Approaches for Review)
3. Normalization in CY2020 (Policy Resolution)

Additional Background and Follow-up (January 2021):

• Background on 2020 SAG Evaluation Questions
• Evaluation Treatment of Business Closures – SAG Comments Received
• Normalization in Calendar Year 2020:
  • Estimating Savings in Calendar Year 2020 Due to COVID-19 Pandemic (Redline Edits Received in Dec. 2020)
  • Estimating Savings in Calendar Year 2020 Due to COVID-19 Pandemic (Final, December 21, 2020) – Posted on the Policy page