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Home My WebLink About7 2008 Conservation Budget Agenda Item # TRUCKEE DONNER Public Utility District Memorandum To: Board of Directors From: Alan Harry, General Services Manager Date: November 15, 2007 Subject: 2008 Conservation Program Budget Why this matter is before the board The District's Board of Directors are charged with the authority to approve the District's annual budget. Objective 5-Manage the District in an environmentally sound manner Goal 5.4- District will maintain a program of energy and water use efficiency Goal 5.5-District will conduct its business in an environmentally lawful manner History In October staff provided the Board with the proposed 2008 Department 4 -Conservation budget. At that time staff reported very general program information, while advising the Board that speck program information had not yet been received from the Advisory Committee on Energy and Water Conservation. New Information Staff, in conjunction with the District's Advisory Committee on Energy and Water Conservation, has prepared a revised program budget for 2008 public benefit and energy efficiency expenditures. This program budget has been prepared using the"Power of Conservation" proposal delivered to the Board by Robert Mowris on November 7 . It is important to note that this proposal is being 0 Page 1 recommended by both the Conservation Committee and District staff, and virtually doubles the District's conservation activities from 2007 to 2008. This revised budget, attached as an excel spreadsheet, has no additional impact on the District's electric rate. It does however require the transfer of$35,000 in unexpended '07 Public Benefit funds and the transfer of 50%of the District's Wire-to-Water program, $87,500, to the Water Department's Capital Improvement budget using Facility Fees as its funding source. As agreed, the Conservation Programs proposed for 2008 are as follows: Public Benefits 1)Rebate Program for products and services such as CFLs, insulation, windows, duct sealing, heat pumps, and water heaters. Annual Budget:$100,000 2)Low and Moderate Income Program (mobile homes,affordable housing, and specified employee housing) Annual Budget:$50,000 3)Appliance Recycling Program to recycle energy inefficient appliances such as refrigerators. Annual Budget:$17,000 4)Truckee Climate Challenge Program. Staff and the Conservation Committee will study the opportunity to initiate this program in 2009. As proposed this program would promote energy efficiency,water conservation, recycling, and renewable energy. This program provides awards to best-in-class projects and individuals who promote and install energy and water efficiency and renewable energy projects. Annual Budget:$500 5)Green Neighborhood Program. Staff and the Conservation Committee will study the opportunity to initiate this program in 2009. As proposed this program would promote neighbor-to-neighbor energy efficiency measures and energy education..Annual Budget:$500 6)Green Schools and Energy Education Program for K-12 and Sierra College to include building energy efficiency as well as a kit of measures and simple audit form for students to implement at their homes and the schools to save energy and teach children about insulation, low-e windows,energy efficiency lighting, appliances and HVAC,and renewable energy such as solar water heating, solar cooking and solar electricity. This program is tied to Earth Day. Annual Budget:$25,000 7)Green Partners Program includes three elements:a)retail, b)restaurant,and c)hospitality. The program includes an annual award banquet and"Green Partner"labels for partners to inform customers that the partner meets minimum energy efficiency requirements. a) Retail program element encourages local hardware and grocery stores to install, market,and sell energy efficient products and services. Shopping locally saves transportation energy and increases local sales tax dollars. Local retailers charge about 1.5 to 2 times more for CFLs compared to Home Depot and Lowes(subsidized by Sierra Pacific).This program will work with local retailers to sell higher volumes of CFLs and offer co-op advertising to promote shopping locally for energy efficient products. Other retail stores will be motivated to install energy efficient lighting. Demonstration sites will show how efficient retail lighting works.Annual Budget:$50,000 0 Page 2 b) Restaurant Program element encourages restaurants to install energy efficient lighting,cooking, dishwashing(machines and pre-rinse spray valves), refrigeration, and HVAC. Annual Budget: $10,000 c) Hospitality Program element encourages hotels, motels, and resorts to implement LEED design principles and energy efficient lighting, controls, HVAC,water heating, pool/spa, restaurant, renewable energy and green building technologies.Annual Budget:$10,000 8)Green Builder and Installer Program. Staff and the Conservation Committee will study the opportunity to initiate this program in 2009. As proposed this program would promote green building, LEED certification, solar, and energy and water conservation.This program promotes 20%greater energy efficiency than the minimum Title 24 building codes.Annual Budget: $500 9)Million CFL Program includes giveaway and incentives plus recycling of used CFLs to prevent mercury from going to landfills.The goal is to install one million CFLs over 10 years by providing$1/CFL incentives for 100,000 CFLs per year.There are approximately 600,000 to 1,000,000 inefficient lamps in Truckee including incandescent screw-in, MR16, inefficient fluorescent, HID, etc. Most residential sites have 25 to 150 incandescent lamps per dwelling unit. Commercial customers have approximately 50 to 200 or more incandescent lamps per site.Annual Budget:$100,000 10)TDPUD Power of Conservation website would provide education, audits,tracking of installed measures, advertising, events,tracking, reporting, and evaluation, measurement, and verification(EM&V).Annual Budget:$7,500 11)LED Holiday Light Swap. This program would provide for the exchanging of incandescent holiday light strings for energy efficient LED holiday light strings.Annual Budget:$10,000 Recommendation It is recommended that the Board approve, in concept, the 2008 Public Benefit and Energy Efficiency program budgets as proposed by the District's Advisory Committee on Energy and Water Conservation&District Staff. Ex: AI " ar , G neral Services John UI 'c ,41nteGM 5. SOURCE OF FUNDING (if applicable)for proje :requipment Funding for the District's Conservation programs will be provided by Public Benefit and Energy Efficiency funds, all of which are electric rate based. 6. BOARD AUTHORIZATION TO TRANSFER FUNDS It is recommended that$35,000 be transferred from the 2007 Public Benefit restricted fund. 0 Page 3 Department 4 - Conservation; Program Budget (non-labor) TDPUD Proposed 2008 ft"eq/TOPUD _ .. Program Expenses Budget ropose Cash Rebate Programs $103,500.00 Per $ t0t{ :$7,50 a ef lSchools, Energy &Water Educ. ta Mrar Renewable Energy Purchase $175,000.00 ,7777 � $1Ot !' Wire-to Water Program $175,913.00 � �� go �� $ .{ Marketing $15,000.00 �n frgA 'rPtrrrt �.flQ Cash Rebate Programs $123,000.00 � � rEr Etlup titrl :fi0'. marketing $2,000.00 0*64 � Rtat3 � Evaluation, Measurement &Verification $7,500.00 Qe� � Expense Total $609,413.00 �€ Mtn $ ,0 }00 Pt�WO f�r3 rVa#i ,Sfl .Q Program Funding sp1 "0'00.0E Public Benefits $476,913.00 � 1e rchse 1 '6�9f . E?. Energy Efficiency $132,500.00 1 Win?e .; "Root Over"of Pub. Ben. Restricted Fund $0.00 Tt $644,413,,00 Funding Total $609,413.00 u � 1 Balance $0.00 OIL fit $4?' , 11 a10 77 $ 32'600.QQ 4'+ �t ►�Funt $ cam.C4 � ' '►1a f41 -00 0.00 �Y ares�t ! p�m November 15, 2007