Update: OMAEG witness John Seryak provided testimony in opposition to several aspects of FirstEnergy’s energy efficiency and peak demand reduction (EE/PDR) plan. Mr. Seryak’s testimony focused on three primary areas. First, he urged the PUCO to deny FirstEnergy’s proposed Customer Action Program (CAP) whereby FirstEnergy would survey customers on what energy-efficiency investments and other actions they implemented absent FirstEnergy’s involvement. FirstEnergy requests to count towards its benchmark-compliance obligations the savings achieved by these customer-initiated projects and also charge customers for the costs of implementing CAP. Mr. Seryak explained that CAP should be rejected because it is not cost effective and does nothing to create energy-efficiency savings beyond the business-as-usual case. Second, Mr. Seryak criticized the proposed shared-savings mechanism as excessive because it requires customers to pay taxes on FirstEnergy’s profits (the total including taxes could reach up to $39 million). He also observed that the incentive is unnecessary for FirstEnergy to deliver better EE/PDR performance. Third, he described how FirstEnergy’s proposed combined heat and power (CHP) incentive is too low. In keeping with the spirit of Governor Kasich’s energy policy, Mr. Seryak recommended that the PUCO increase the incentive. A hearing on FirstEnergy’s EE/PDR plan is scheduled for October 11, 2016.