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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11 Conservation Monthly Report Agenda Item # 11 Truckee Donner PUD Board meeting Nov 19, 2007 Conservation Committee Monthly Report Outline of Comments by Doug Grandy, Chair 1. Committee meetings a. Minutes of Oct 11 and Nov 6 meetings attached b. Future meetings set: Dec 6; Jan 10; Feb 7 2. E3 Model 3. Budget-related principles—interim recommendations Item Recommendation Tiered Rates Adopt Load Study Fund and perform Programs As many as budget will allow Marketina Plan Fund and perform Voluntary Green program Adopt— no cost to budget Wire to water subsidies Cease the practice Supply Contract subsidies Cease the practice TDPUD Citizens' Conservation Advisory Committee Thursday November 6, 2007 Minutes Attendance: Scott Terrell, Anna Demm, Joanna Walters, Ben Benson, Gerald Herrick, Jim Booth, Eric Perlman, John Hillstrom, Doug Grandy, Ronnie Colby Guests: Ed Taylor, Jimmy Smith, Robert Mowris, Brian Woody I. Brought to order 6:05pm II. Roll Call . A sign-up sheet was circulated. III. Minutes Approval September minutes approved via email. October minutes will be approved in the next 2 weeks via email in preparation for the next Board meeting on Nov 191" IV. Public Input. Jimmy Smith in charge of new services and facilities for Southwest Gas came to sit in and see what the committee was all about. V. Ed Taylor from the water department is present to give background on water district in Truckee. Truckee started as a small community and has grown tremendously. In the beginning the water system and supply was regionalized. Small sources were designated for certain areas. An aggressive plan was developed and began moving towards a global system. Water from any well can be delivered to any customer. Allows better control in water quality and energy use and there is built in redundancy. Energy is calculated by how much energy it takes to pull water to customer. Nov 13'h Ed Taylor will be at a presentation to town to explain water situation in Truckee. One well produces 3 million gallons a day. Water brought from bedrock, 1,000+feet down. The lower each well is dug, the more energy it takes to pump out the water. We have the water, after the 4 highest usage months it took 4 days for the wells to recover to the previous level.. The crux of conservation is doing it for the right reasons. For example if you are limited in supply and every home saves 10%, the community can support 10% more development. Cost- if you have to buy your water from another area and transport it (i.e. LA), saving water saves you money. Energy- if we conserve water we conserve energy. Every ounce of water takes energy to deliver. We have to pump it out of the ground. That is why we need to conserve, conserve water= conserve energy. Biggest problem for Water is the valley and peaks. Summer consumption is 2 to 3 times the winter average. Reason for increase is primarily attributed to lawn and landscape maintenance. 62% of water customers are 2"d home-owners. 2"d biggest problem is no meters. Money has been requested (via a grant application) to do a test program on metering homes. Cost to install meters is estimated at $3,000 per home on the high end for the older homes that require ditch digging and infrastructure improvements. Total estimated cost to meter every home in system $15-$17 million. Meters would allow more analysis on usage that could be applied to a rate structure. Commercial rate customers are charged a base rate that covers all fixed costs. The base rate then changes for each customer based on consumption. There is a descending rate structure so the more a commercial customer uses the less it costs per unit. The idea was that the base rate would cover the fixed cost and the excess usage rate would cover just the energy used to get the water to the customer. At the time of inception the large users were schools, hospital, etc. Water department uses 8% of energy of district. 12 wells with the largest being 500 horsepower and smallest 30 horsepower. 26 service pumps bring the well water to customers. Highest service customer is 7,400 ft. A conversation started arguing that a rate structure that rewards usage is not good for conservation. The cost of energy today makes the declining rate structure no longer a good idea 1 Conservation Committee, Minutes-Nov.6,2007 fiscally, as energy costs do not similarly decline. Concern over golf courses receiving a break for usage was brought up Ed: Of the 3 courses that get water from the district, only Tahoe Donner falls under the declining rate structure. The other courses negotiated a different rate structure before they were given approval to be built.. Golf courses are also monitored by the district and have water conservation plans in place. The water department and electric department coordinate so that water pumps are used at low electric demand times, e.g. midnight— 6 a.m. Committee question: Who are peak users? Ed: Golf Courses and Rec & Park Dept. because of the landscaping use. Even without commercial accounts, residential use doubles from winter to summer. Committee question (Eric Perlman): If you were king, what would you do to improve our conservation? Ed: It would be a combination of meters and education. Adding meters would create an educated customer who could visually see their usage. The high usage customers would be more inclined to adopt conservation measures to lower bill if not for conservation. 11,500 customers in district. 4,800 or so already have meters. By 2011, we will be required to charge those customers by meter. The rest of the customers will be required by law to be on meter by 2020. Water bills will go up even just to cover the labor to read the meters and that is if the meters are covered by a grant. Any infrastructure costs that would be incurred from upgrading to meters would be passed on to customer. It doesn't make sense to charge only some customers on metering, so all customers need meters by 2011. Committee question: How many pumps have been retrofitted with high efficiency pumps? Ed: Replacement program to increase efficiency in pumps is about 'h way through. The largest most used pumps were replaced. There are 2 remaining larger pumps that could be replaced but the rest are small 30 horsepower pumps that would not see a huge gain in the replacement. Those 2 pumps will be replaced in conjunction with a pipeline and routing project scheduled for 4-5 years from now. Commercial (about 580 customers) use about 30% of the water delivered. Connection fees are charged to new development based on sq ft of house. National average of water use is about 100 gallons per person per day. About $5 million a year for the next 3 years will be spent to improve the local underground system, then about $1.2 million per year. The list of leaks is no more than 10 leaks. When it reaches 10 outside crews are brought in to repair. At the moment there are only 4 leaks on the list. A rough estimate is about 10 to 15% loss due to system leaks. Doug thanks Ed for his time. Vl. Committee breaks into Subcommittee Meetings VII. Subcommittees return and report The Outreach and Strategies & Tactics sub committees had a combined subcommittee meeting. They supported the material presented by Robert Mowris and want him to present the material to the board Nov 7th in the public forum. If possible the committee would like to receive some feedback from the board on the items listed in terms of feasibility, possibility, etc. Presenting the information is important in terms of the board allocating 2008 budgets in December. The list gives substance to the committee's intentions and ideas and allows the board to see how the committee would allocate public benefit money. Policy and Fiscal Subcommittee Recommendation 1: In principal the subcommittee proposed to the committee at large that we should recommend that current commercial water accounts on the rate structure be reversed- so the price per gallon would increase with usage. Depending on analysis of data and need, the subcommittee also 2 Conservation Committee, Minutes-Nov.6,2007 presents in principal the possibility of creating a second rate for non-profit and public agencies like the hospital, Rec and Park and schools. That recommendation will come after usage data is reviewed. The change in policy is to help encourage business to reduce consumption rather then encouraging consumption. The change would also cover increased energy expenses that are being absorbed by the District under the present rate structure. Motion to accept. Committee 1 st Eric Perlman and 2"d, Ben Benson with no opposition the motion was passed accepting Recommendation 1 in principal. Recommendation 2: In principal, the Fiscal Subcommittee recommends the electric rate structure be changed to a 3-tier rate structure based on usage. Lowest rate would be 1st tier; if consumption exceeds that allowance a 2"d tier rate would go into effect for the excess kWh used. The 3rd tier would be for highest users and would be charged the highest rate. Additionally the rates charged to all homes would be the same. 2"d homeowners would no longer receive a different rate. There was general discussion of how this would impact low income users and tenants renting inefficient, electrically heated homes. There was agreement that a low income program, separate from the rate structure, could be adopted so there was not undue hardship for these customers. Jimmy Smith noted that SW Gas could share their list of low-income customers directly with District staff. They have already done this with Sierra Pacific. PUD should offer low interest rate loans to customers specifically for energy efficiency improvements that replace equipment like baseboard heating, upgrade water heaters, install EnergyStar double pane windows, etc. The loan would then be paid back over time. Motion to accept. Committee 1st and 2"d, with no opposition the motion was passed accepting Recommendation 2 in principal. Recommendation 3: No future public benefit funds should be spent on internal TDPUD infrastructure costs, and or capital improvements. Incentives should be spent on community"public" projects and incentives that will increase the awareness and acceptance of conservation community-wide. Also, if a project is energy efficient, the District shouldn't need the added incentive of Public Benefit funds for any added cost to make financial sense. Motion to accept. Committee 1st and 2"d, with no opposition the motion was passed accepting Recommendation 3 in principal. Vill. Recommendations/Comments to present to TDPUD Board. This item will be handled via e-mail due to being well over the allotted time. Next meeting December 6m IX. Meeting adjourned 9:45pm 3 Conservation Committee, Minutes-Nov.6,2007 Conservation Committee Thursday October 11, 2007 Minutes Attendance: Dan Dickerman, Susie Sutphin, Scott Terrell, Anna Demm, Joanna Walters, Tom Gorin, Gerald Herrick, Jim Booth, on phone Doug Grandy, late Brian Woody, Ronnie Colby, . I. Call to Order- Joanna Joanna calls meeting to order since DG is on phone. Meeting starts 6:05 II. Roll Call -- Joanna asks members to sign in on attendance sheet. Intro of Lauren Hickey as minute taker. Thanks to district and board for availing Lauren to the committee. This was seconded by several in attendance. III. Approval of Minutes -- Last meeting minutes were not received until last night so approval of minutes will be done via email by Joanna. Group in attendance agrees IV. Public Input- no public in attendance to submit input. V. Presentation of Mary Chapman on district's budget and financing. Truckee Donner Public Utility District Department 4, Agenda Item 16 was handed out to committee. How do things get paid for? 2008 has not been presented to board so it is not open for discussion. More information will be given on October 17th. Budget books will then be passed out and more info will be available. The department of conservation proposed budget was passed out to the committee. This has not been passed by the board just presented. Alan is presented as department #4. The 2007 budget was presented differently than 2008 due to requirements and changes in department organization. Gerald Herrick: Are the priorities listed in order of importance? Mary Chapman: No just a list- everything is a priority and will get done. Truckee Donner Public Utility District, Treasurer's Report for the month ended August 31, 2007 was handed out to committee. This time every year the district budgets for the following year, as well as reviews the 5 year capital budget. It includes general fund statement, statement of investments. A summary provided in front to give you direction if there is something you want to look at specifically. August budget report provided with electric and water presented on separate lines. Information provided on where the district is in the year in terms of spending and collecting. Planning Services is department 4 in this document; in 2008 this will be called Conservation Services. Joanna Walters: do all departments have numbers? Mary Chapman: Yes is goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, starting at the top of the page. Mary continues to explain how the ledger works- money moving in and out of various departments. 3% of sales go to future rate increases in case of market turn. The fund has been Comservation-Minutes Oct 11 2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 1 used so only$1 million remains. During 2002 when the power industry was crazy money was used to secure future power. Tom Gorin: Residential/ commercial are all below what was budgeted? Does that mean sales are lower then expected? Mary Chapman: No the 1 st line is actually up for the year. The number listed is the annual. We are actually behind in commercial. The biggest months are Jan, Feb, March, April. So if we do not have an early winter commercial might not make budget. John Ulrich- Power is not linear so it is difficult to forecast month to month. Mary Chapman directs the committee to look at revenue for Electric specific- we are ahead of last year in revenue but if you look at purchase power cost you will see they have gone up significantly. The hydro sales from WAPA (Western Area Power Administration) have hurt us with not as many credits as received in previous year. JW: What is WAPA? John Ulrich: Western Area Power Administration. You have to remember Steve's presentation, the stacking of power. So we did not get as much from WAPA and it was more expensive. There have been changes- you pay whether you get it or not. So you have a fixed cost, regardless. It used to be you take you pay. Now you pay regardless of what you take. Mary Chapman: The financial statement includes more info- depreciation etc. Budget is just cash. Revenue estimate and operating expenses are important to look at- they indicate where we are in relation to our goals Doug: What is the total Revenue Requirement for Electric power? Mary Chapman: 30 million, $1.62 million surplus is actually used for capital projects. Doug: What is the project list? Mary Chapman: Each year it is updated and shifted in importance if needed. Mary Chapman continues to review the documents that were handed out focusing on the developer and facility fees. Yes a developer fee is charged for installation of water line. Facility fees are more to buy into a system that already exists. If we add a well, that is a facility fee. So if a neighborhood is added, it would depend on what they bring to the table. If enough customers are added no developer fee is charged. Otherwise if a developer adds a neighborhood, the cost of the project is paid by the customers and/or the developer. Glenshire is charged a surcharge because their installation went over budget. This surcharge will be removed when the debt is paid. Doug: So these fees are to keep existing customers neutral on addition of new areas? Mary Chapman: yes, exactly. Mary Chapman suggests that if this committee was to suggest a project they should be aware of overhead charges. These are charges that are assessed based on the project. If any employee of the district is required to do any kind of work there would be labor, transportation (vehicles), Admin, inventory (if sourced from the warehouse), and construction overhead if a work order is required. We do not allocate the building, computer or insurance costs. If you hire a consultant and that is it then the district would just charge the bill -- no other overhead cost would be assessed. Comservation-Minutes Oct 11 2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 2 Doug: If we did anything to affect the cost of a ratepayer bill, say if ratepayer Joan gets a $10 discount on her bill, then what would happen with overhead costs? Tom Gorin: Are you talking about programs that reduce consumption? Doug: Yes. So we reduce consumption how does that affect the district? Mary Chapman: Well, that would cause the margin to shrink. But then we would need to purchase less power... Doug: Lots of these changes could have ripple effects over time. John Ulrich: You might cause an increase in cost because your cost per kilowatt-hour will go up. The fixed cost is increased and spread over fewer hours. Mary Chapman: it is a zero sum game Joanna Walters: You provided an overhead presentation, with more detailed information? Mary- yes that was last year's numbers and information. Joanna Walters: Do the # change? Mary Chapman: Yes- and sometimes substantially, definitely more than 1%. 1 think 2008 will go down. A few years ago we did a project for Old Greenwood- we ran the entire inventory through the system. So we had a huge credit because the overhead cost was charged on the entire inventory that went through the warehouse. 2008/2009 looks like slow years for development- so that means that the district will need to absorb cost instead of spreading it across overhead charges. Joanna Walters: Would light bulbs be inventory? Mary Chapman: No only wire, poles, etc. are considered inventory. Light bulbs would be ordered and only the cost of the item, tax and shipping would be charged. Joanna Walters: What if we had a loan program for tools? Mary Chapman: It would depend on how much time/energy it would require from the staff. Overhead costs are not assessed unless it is used. Transportation is an overhead. The transportation costs are collected - gas, maintainence, etc. We add it all up and decide how it will be distributed- based on hours used by individual. So the costs are allocated out to the work that it is done. So the numbers do not add up. Transportation is not charged to everyone- they are not consistent. Doug: The transportation 28%, where does this get charged? Mary: The money coming in is allocated based on the job. Doug: It looks like water is free. I get charged the same no matter how much or how little water I use. Mary Chapman: Yes- that is true but the cost of getting it to you is not cheap. So the charge is the same for each customer. Commercial accounts are metered, i.e. golf courses. Commercial accounts like retail stores will not be charged because the usage will not be excessive compared to a residential customer. There are big costs for metered systems. The system and the people to check them is very expensive. Jim Booth: Could we meter only some of the year? Comservation-Minutes_Oct_11_2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 3 Tom Gorin: Yes, but you still have to pay for the system 12 months. John Ulrich: I think you need to determine your goal? What do you want at the end of the day? Jim Booth: Don't we want to save water? John Ulrich: The objective may be to save energy. So the less water you pump the less energy you use. Woody: Can't you do a broadband connected system? John Ulrich: yes but that system is very expensive. You need to be careful. The meters run $350 each and that is not broadband connected. This community is unique- our water availability and usage patterns are unique. Mary Chapman: Remember, no property tax money is used to supplement the district. Tahoe city does supplement with property tax. Tom Gorin: How much water are we talking about? Joanna Walters: how do you know when the system is leaking? Mary Chapman: people report the leaks to the district. The pipes are then put on a list and fixed. It is a long list. Contractors are hired; 26 million was borrowed to fix pipe lines in Donner, Glenshire and other parts of Truckee. Doug: I was thinking about asking Ed to come in and talk about the water system. John Ulrich: Nov 13th- a meeting has been set for the public to discuss water growth and impact. Joanna Walters: Does anyone have any more questions on allocating and the budget for Mary Chapman? Mary Chapman: Thanks for having me, Joanna did I answer all of your questions? Joanna Walters- Are there forecasts for the conservation budget for the next 3 years? Mary Chapman: Yes Department 4 expenditures are within the proposed budget. Details to these numbers will be presented at the beginning of November so that will make it clear what dollars are available to the committee. Joanna Walters: So is all the money budgeted out? John Ulrich: The committee should talk to the staff and review possible programs before submitting them to the board. Joanna Walters: Alan will not review proposed budget. I called to see if we could do green power for the district. Kathy called back and said she was already assigned to do a green program. So I think there is a disconnect here. Scott: Kathy just started working on it. Comservation-Minutes Oct 11 2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 4 John Ulrich: Your role is to get the 5 objectives complete. There may be some overlap with what the staff is already working on but, that is okay. Joanna Walters: I have been to board meetings and I have been asked what part of the budget is going to pay for new program ideas. I would like that answer. I am afraid we are going to hear, `We have already allocated our funds.' John Ulrich: The board has not said- we want to allocate money to the committee for anything. The board has said we want you to do these 5 things over the next year. There is no money in the budget. The board wants the ideas that the committee generates, if the board likes the idea they will then turn to staff and ask them to find money to implement the ideas. Larger ideas might not get included until the next budget. Scott Terrell: Say we have a $300,000 budget for conservation. Our 8 ideas only spend $20,000. You can go back with more ideas and spend the rest of the money. Say towards the end of the year you are running out of money, the board could allocate more money to the program. The money is in there. Joanna Walters: I guess I am just concerned on how the money has been spent. Are we going to buy more water pumps? John Ulrich: Maybe? The energy saved by adding a water pump may make sense. Scott Terrell: We will know the numbers after November. Joanna: I calculated out all the numbers from Alan and Steve. Water to Wire percentage was where most of the money has been spent, at least 39%. 93.9% was for efficiency and of that over $1 M was spent on pumps and wells. R&D and low income made up a very small percentage Mary Chapman: We started by improving public facilities because it gave the most bang for the buck. John Ulrich: The past does not foretell the future. We have spent time fixing inefficient pumps. Scott Terrell: We do have enough money allocated to effect a lot of conservation for 2008. Ronnie Colby: So we are not going to show up and hear that the money has already been spent? Doug: We have kept Mary longer than expected. Mary, John thanks for taking the time to come tonight. Several members thank Mary and John for their time. Set meeting Dates- Tues November 6th- everyone okay? Scott Terrell: Setting our dates so we are ready for the board meeting would be good. VI. 6. Set Meeting Dates: The committee confirmed the following future meetings; Tuesday November 6th, Thursday December 6th, Tuesday January 10th, and Thursday February 7th. VII. Subcommittee Breakouts Comservation-Minutes_Oct_11_2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 5 Joanna Walters: presented a document that could help form the details required for implementing ideas. Each committee should flesh out ideas and provide a short description of program, estimated cost, and estimated benefits. An update is needed to the board for next Wednesday. Scott Terrell: It can not be official. We are only on the agenda as a workshop item. So we can present it and if they approve they will add it as an action item on the next agenda. Jim Booth: I am on info overload. How are we ever going to come to a consensus on what is the right program? We are all over the place. We know we want to do CFL's, but how? Then find the next thing. Tom Gorin: We could do what PGE has, and hand out coupons for light bulbs at Safeway when they don't sell the light bulbs. Jim Booth: I like Sierra Pacific Power. They sent out an insert in their bills inviting customers to come in and collect a 12 pack of CFL bulbs. When they come in to collect the bulbs we upsell and ask if they want a power audit. We could also create a database. Joanna Walters: Exactly. What I want is each sub-committee to go and meet and determine how each program will work, providing specifics. We have a bulb program; this is how it will work. Think of it as draft plan. Outreach is about creating a pipeline for all the programs. We need people to start writing things down. Pick a program, write it out, hand it around and get feed back. Scott Terrell: We have started a list of ideas. Each one of these ideas needs to be fleshed out. Joanna Walters: I think we need to pick something small, easy to implement. Dan Dickerman: So are we going to present this piece meal? Or in a large document? Joanna Walters: I think both. We will create a large document but we will also update the board as we go along. Doug: The monthly update of the board tells them what we are up to. Scott Terrell: We should talk about our approach. Do we want to make some recommendation soon? We can, but we need our subcommittees to flesh them out. Once we have something to recommend, we should present it at a workshop meeting looking for feedback from the Board. Then we come back and report in a more formal way asking for approval. Doug: The one at a time approach is a change in our method. We were going to evaluate programs relative to one another. Scott Terrell: The district already has a comprehensive CFL bulb program. We have done a lot in the last 6 weeks. The Rotary is going out this weekend to low income housing. Joanna Walters: I think something to do with marketing would be a great place to start. It will benefit all programs. Dan Dickerman: I am having trouble seeing the impact and change that this committee is effecting. What are we going to do? How are we going to get there? What is the road map? What are we trying to accomplish. Comservation-Minutes Oct 11 2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 6 Doug: We do have the 5 bullet points from the board. We will come up with a set of recommendations. Everything else is an option. At the end we will have a document that will be presented to the board. Scott Terrell: What I would do to provide structure is a mid term recommendation at 6 months. Then in 12 months from start, provide the full report. I think providing a new program every month is too disjointed. Recycling fridge and freezer is a program that I have ready to go. Come up with a few programs with marketing ideas that we present in a few months. Then, complete the full report at the end of 12 months. Dan Dickerman: What are we doing tonight? Ronnie Colby: We need to break in to sub- committees and work out our plans. We could create a preview of coming info for the presentation on Wednesday. Joanna Walters: We need people to take ownership and write out ideas in detail. Scott Terrell: We need justification for our ideas we are presenting to the board. Make sure our reasoning is sound and we have strong rationale. Programs for the sake of programs will be a mistake. Joanna Walters: I have all the overhead and budget numbers that we reviewed with Mary. Tom also has the usage and customer info, so we should be used as resources. Doug: We are not going to have much to present next Wednesday for the board meeting. Scott: I think we update them from this meeting and what we have started looking at. Doug: I am not comfortable throwing out lightly considered ideas to the board in a month. I think we need to spend more time. Scott Terrell: I think Joanna said we need to wait and see what comes from the subcommittees. I think it depends on what the whole group is comfortable with. Vill. Subcommittee Reports Committee breaks into subcommittee for 30 minutes. Outreach, Strategies & Tactics and Policy & Fiscal. Committee members return and provide reports from the subcommittees. Policy & Fiscal: spoke about green power. It would require a premium to be paid by customer. We will look at the present contracts and see if Green Tags are available from the current power portfolio. Some research into other utilities' green power programs has started. Outreach: Narrowed interest to a few programs that need to be fleshed out via e-mail among subcommittee members. The first program idea was to have a modified low income energy audit, focusing on CFL and shower head replacement. The program at the same time could up sell the full energy audit. The second program was to target 2"d home owners, help with turning down heat and reducing consumption. This could be accomplished through changing behavior or hiring home care assistants or property managers. The final idea was to mimic a program from Grass Valley. Power Up in Nevada City is doing a Christmas light swap for more energy efficient holiday lights. The LED holiday lights could be fun, generate some excitement. PG&E Flex your Power Campaign is paying for Grass Valley. Finally, we could harness the contacts from the Truckee Clean Up Day event so you can have the leaders in the various neighborhoods take the lead in their neighborhoods on being mindful Comservation-Minutes Oct 11 2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 7 and to conserve. Spreading the word on easy grass roots solutions to save power. Reduce and conserve could be the larger campaign on what they can do to be a part of the solution. Scott Terrell: Work on Beth she is very passionate about saving energy and she could work on an energy efficiency part of the Clean Up Day. Joanna Walters: sounds great, can Susie write those ideas up and flesh them out? Susie Sutphin: Yes. Scott Terrell: Most of what was talked about is reasonable. It sounds like Outreach and Strategies should start meeting, we are talking about the same things. Strategies and Tactics: Presented 4 programs. A refrigerator recycling program. We have it approved to find a contractor to start the program. The district would reimburse $35 per recycled fridge. Since the Fridge is on all the time it has a huge impact. This would also apply to the 2"d and 3rd fridges in households. But it has to be an energy star appliance. Retro-commissioning: identify top 10 energy users in Truckee, hire a consultant to review their large scale equipment and recommend energy saving changes. This would be more tune up then replacing equipment. Small changes in big systems can result in big savings. 2nd home reduce consumption list, each 2"d homeowner would get a list on how to save money when they are not at the house. A statement on the bill would let them know where they stand in terms of usage. A low income household program: would include weather-stripping, low-flow shower heads, water heater jackets, an energy audit of sorts. Joanna: Great! Now everyone read and respond to your emails. We will need to you to review and sign off on the last meeting's and this meeting's minutes. This will all be combined for Doug to present to the board. Dan Dickerson: What is the scope of our charter? Can we present a load switching strategy? Should we ask the board if they want to hear that? Doug: I don't think we need to ask the board's permission for what we can present to them. I think they want us to come up with the recommendations. There are ways to evaluate the cost of various energy types, and if gas is better, why wouldn't we suggest it? Committee members wrap up discussion and agree to follow up in subcommittee and share ideas and flesh them out via email. IX. Review and approve items for October Report to TDPUD Board, October 17 meeting Doug described how he would make the presentation when there was a lot of activity but no actual products to present this time, and there was general agreement. X. Meeting Adjourned. 9:10pm Comservation-Minutes_Oct_11_2007 Conservation Committee 10/23/2007 8 TDPUD Conservation Committee Interim Recommendations November 2007 Since the 2008 Budget is being decided on at this time, the Committee wanted to bring a set of recommendations to the Board that we feel demonstrate the best use of those funds. Nearly all the budget allocated to Conservation (Dept 4) is required by state legislation so we have included a brief summary of the applicable legislation here. Public Benefit Funds (based on AB1890): Our understanding is that this bill requires utilities to spend 2.85% of electric sales on four types of programs 1) Cost-effective demand-side management services to promote energy�ciency and energy conservation; 2) New investments in renewable energy technology; 3) Research, development and demonstration;and 4) Services provided for low income electricity customers.' Energy Efficiency based on AB2021�: Only parts of this bill apply to Publicly Owned Utilities (a.k.a. municipal utilities). Here are excerpts from this bill that are applicable: 4)Municipal utilities to treat energy fciency investments as procurement investments and limits the amount of publicgoods charge (PGC)money that can be used on energy fciency programs. 5)Each municipal utility to contract for independent evaluation, measurement, and verification of the energy fuiency savings achieved by the municipal utility programs 6)Each municipal utility to annually report to its customers and CEC on its investments in energy fciency. 8)Each municipal utility to adjust its financial practices to ensure that the recovery of faxed costs is not dependent on the sales of electricity. EXISTING LAW requires: 2)All electric and natural gas utilities, including municipal utilities to first meet their unmet resource needs through all available fciency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.' California Solar Iniative (supported by SB1): This bill supports the program created by the CPUC and extends its intent to municipal utilities. It requires all utilities to establish a rebate program for customers that install solar photo-voltaic (PV) systems. Here are excerpts from this bill that are applicable: ■ This bill requires municipal utilities to establish solar energyprograms in support of the 3000 MVgoal. Such programs shall be established by January 1, 2008 and shall cost$784 million. ■ This bill raises the net metering cap from 0.5 percent to 2.5 percent. ■ This bill is very strongly supportive of performance-based incentives. It requires that all incentives for large solar installations and at least half the incentives for medium-sitied installations be performance-based by January 1, 2008. Performance-based incentives for smaller, residential-sitied systems are encouraged ■ Municipal Utilities-- This bill requires municipal utilities to establish their own PV programs at an aggregate cost of$784 million, which is within the$3.35 billion cost cap. It requires that subsidies start at not less than$2.80/watt and decline by 7%annually thereafter.3 AB 1890 Public Benefits Program Guidebook,by California Municipal Utilities Association,May 7, 1997 2 AB 2021 Assembly Bill Analysis,available online at http://www.leginfo.ca.goyipub/05-06/bill/asm/ab 2001- 2050/ab 2021 cfa 20060905 120129 asm floor.html 3 SB 1 Senate Bill Analysis,August 8,2006 available online at http://www.lepinfo.ca.vov/pub/()5- 06/bill/sen/sb 0001-0050/sb 1 cfa 20060807 152401 sen comm.html Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l1-19-07 Page 1 of 10 There is much discussion on the interpretation of these laws,but we understand the intent of all to be as follows: The funding from ratepayers for all the energy legislation is intended to incent the public to adopt and install energy efficiency measures and renewable energy programs that otherwise would not happen without this financial support.The programs which are the most efficient and reach the broadest audience are the most preferred. Following this logic,we believe that spending of Public Benefit funds on already existing and contracted for renewable power supply or energy efficient water pumps does not qualify under these conditions.These are already existing supplies of renewable power and would not directly encourage the Truckee public (who has been paying the additional public benefit fees) to adopt these renewable energy technologies. In the same way, although the"wire-to-water"program may be tecbnicaly legal, we feel the Public Benefit money should not be used by the TDPUD on its own operations.The District should not need to be convinced (by using these public funds) that these pumps are a good investment in their operations. Additionally, spending of this type is not allowed for IOU's.The reasoning for that would also be valid for POU's, even though it may not yet be specifically legislated. That said,we also include recommendations that are not specific to any legislation but are widely accepted to have significant effects on conservation. Savings EUL Cost of Saved Lifecycle # Program Description Budget$ MWh Years Energy$/kWh MWh 1 Tiered Electric Rates $0 2,390 15 $0 35,880 2 Tiered Water Rates(commercial) $0 n/a n/a n/a n/a 3 Optional Green Power Program $0 tbd tbd tbd tbd Defined Marketing and Media 4 BuyinR Plan $50,000 tbd I tbd tbd tbd 5 Load Study $50,000 tbd tbd tbd tbd 6` `Live Smart'Program A Rebates $100,000 5,000 8 0.003 40,000 B Low Income(TDPUD) $50,000 3,300 6 0.003 19,800 C Appliance Recycling $45,000 336 6 0.026 2,016 7 Community Outreach A Truckee Energy Challenge $75,000 1,000 6 0.015 6,000 B Green Neighborhood $75,000 1,000 15 0.007 15,000 Green Schools&Energy C Education $25,000 99 6 0.050 594 8 1 Professional Outreach Green Partners:Retail, A Restaurant,Hospitality $32,500 1,340 6 0.010 8,040 Green Construction: Builders, B Installers $50,000 3,300 10 0.002 33,000 9 EnergySu tier Cooperation A SW Gas CO2 Reduction $0 350 15 0.000 5,250 SW Gas Low Income B Weatherization $10,000 Tbd tbd tbd tbd 10 TDPUD Website $7,600 130 6 0.011 780 11 Targeted Programs A Million CFL $100,000 6,000 6 0.003 36,000 B LED Light Swap $10,000 357 10 0.030 3,570 C Low Interest Financing $0 Tbd 15 tbd tbd D Solar PV $177,400 Tbd 25 tbd tbd Total $895 000 24,604 10 0.012 205,930 Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,11-19-07 Page 2 of 10 Note:Cost of saved energy assumes a 6%real discount rate.Million CFI.is a goal over ten years based on installing 100,000 CFIs per year. 1) Tiered Rates-Electric Nothing motivates behavioral change so much as price. The intention of tiered rates is to encourage the high users to make the changes that would reduce their electric bills. With two months of data (Jan,Aug),we calculated that the top 25% of customers use about 50% of the energy. If a new rate schedule encourages these customers to reduce their usage just 10%, that translates to an annual savings of 2,392 MWh. All-electric heated homes should be given a higher winter baseline, so these customers are not unduly penalized. The tiered structure can be designed so that there is no negative revenue impact. In fact,it can be set so that the TDPUD receives more revenue for delivering the same amount of power.Annual Budget$0 Expected Savings: 2,392 MWh per year 2) Tiered Rates-H2O (commercial only) Ideally, all water customers would receive water bills that would vary with the amount of water they use. Since residents do not all have water meters at present, this program must be limited to commercial customers. Current rates are set so customers that exceed their base allocation pay a decreasing amount per gallon when they use more. This is an economic incentive for customers to use more water rather than the reverse. Since some of the largest users are actually public agencies,we recommend adding a second type of commercial rate: public/government. This could be adjusted so that these customers,which operate for the public benefit,have a reduced financial impact,but are still incented to reduce what water usage they can. . Annual Budget$0 Expected Savings: no estimates can be made until data on usage over base allocations is available 3) Optional Green Power Program This is a program that customers have clearly and repeated express an interest in. There are a number of ways to sell customers either generic Renewable Energy Credits or create a fund for local renewable power sources or re-sell the credits from our signed renewable energy contracts. There should only be a minimal start-up cost. 4) Defined Marketing Plan Advertising and promotion for any product works best when the target customer hears and sees the same message repeatedly. The current implementation of the marketing is inconsistent, haphazard and lacks a consistent message.With a fully defined marketing plan, the TDPUD will be able to any and all conservation programs repeatedly. 5) Live Smart Program This is a suite of programs that reward customers for improving their energy and water efficiency. "We'll pay you to live smart." a) Rebates: Program for products and services such as CFLs,insulation,windows, duct sealing,heat pumps, and water heaters. Scott Terrell is already implementing this program and is interested in expanding the program to increase participation.Annual Budget: $100,000 Expected Savings: 5,000 MWh per year assuming 12,000 measures are installed. b) Low and Moderate Income Assistance: Currently, Scott Terell is implementing a program to install free CFL's in mobile homes,apartments,and affordable housing with the Rotary and property managers. Annual Budget: $50,000 Erected Savings: 1,000 MWh per year assuming 20,000 CFLs or other measures are installed. c) Appliance Recycling: Scott Terrell is planning to implement this program. Annual Budget: $45,000 Expected Savings: 336 MWh per year assuming 200 secondary refrigerators and freezers are recycled with annual savings of 1,682 kWh per recycled appliance (refrigerators or freezers)' 6) Community Outreach 'based on Measurement and Verification Report for NCPA SBSX Refrigerator Recycling Programs,prepared for NCPA,prepared by R LN,2005.available online www.calmac.org. Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l 1-19-07 Page 3of10 a) Truckee Energy Challenge will 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: $75,000 Expected 1,000 MWh per year assuming 1,000 customers install 20,000 CFLs or linear fluorescent lamps with electronic ballasts,water efficient technologies, programmable thermostats,weather-stripping, duct sealing, efficient HVAC,low-e windows,insulation, solar water heaters, solar PV, and other measures. b) Green Neighborhood Program Use neighbor-to-neighbor communication of energy efficiency measures and energy education.Average annual customer usage is 9,132 kWh/yr for primary and 4,620 for secondary residents. These customers can save 25 to 75 percent using a variety of efficiency improvements such as CFLs water saving showerheads,aerators, weather-stripping, duct sealing, and other measures. Annual Budget: $75,000 Expected Sam: 1,000 MWh per year assuming 1,000 customers install 50,000 measures. According to the RASS Study, average lighting use is 754 to 1288 kWh per residence and outdoor lighting is 173 to 284 kWh per years.With savings of 50 to 75% at the upper limit, energy use could be reduced 695 to 1179 kWh per year (assuming incandescent to fluorescent). c) 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. Scott Terrell has already doing projects with the schools including 200 LivingWiseTM kits per year, lighting upgrades and educational activities. Students learn how to do energy and water audits in their homes.Annual Budget: $25,000 Expected Savings: 100 MWh per year if students install 1,500 CFLs, showerheads, aerators, timers,weather- stripping, and other measures. 7) Professional Outreach By focusing on the needs of specific types of businesses, the TDPUD can more effectively address their special concerns and issues. For example,retail locations that lease from a property manager. a) Green Partners Program includes three elements: retail,restaurant, and hospitality. The program recognizes "Green Partners" that have meet minimum energy and water efficiency requirements. It should include an annual award banquet and"Green Partner" labels to inform customers that the partner has achieved this. These three areas were picked for the first year because they are very visible in Truckee and have high customer traffic and interaction. This increases the likelihood that"word of mouth" marketing will get started and spread the news. i) Retail 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 approximately 1.5 to 2 times more for CFLs compared to large box stores,where some are subsidized by Sierra Pacific. This program will assist local retailers to create energy efficiency displays and have more affordable product available. The retailers gain by selling higher volumes of energy efficiency products and the spillover advertising done by the TPDUD. Other types of retail stores will be rewarded for reducing their own energy use through lighting rebates, gasket upgrades and public recognition. Demonstration sites can show how efficient retail lighting works. Annual Budget: $12,500 Expected Savings: 340 MWh per year. 5 California Statewide Residential appliance Saturation Study-RASS,KENLN-YENERGY,2005 Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,11-19-07 Page 4of10 ii) Restaurant element encourages restaurants to install energy efficient lighting, cooking, dishwashing (machines and pre-rinse spray valves),refrigeration, and HVAC. Annual Budget: $10,000 Expected Savings: 660 MWh per year assuming green restaurant partners install CFLs,pre-rinse spray valves, and other measures. iii) Hospitality element focuses on 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 Expected Savings: 660 MWh per year assuming partners install CFLs, room-key activated lighting and HVAC controls,pre-rinse spray valves, and other measures. b) Green Builder and Installer Program promotes green building,LEED certification, solar power, energy efficiency and water conservation. The Town of Truckee and contractor groups (CATT) are primary partners along with AIA,SiGBA, and their members. Scott Terrell and the Sierra Green Building Association have been working with the Town of Truckee and builder groups. This program promotes 20%greater energy efficiency than the minimum Title;4 building codes. Annual Budget: $50,000 Expected Savings: 3,300 MWh per year assuming green builders and installers adhere to green building standards, Energy Star,LEED silver or greater or 20%beyond Title 24 including more CFLs,low-e windows, Energy Star and Watersense fittings, HVAC systems, solar water and PV systems, and other measures. Includes annual banquet and awards to honor builders and installers who demonstrate resource efficiency and sustainability. 8) Energy Supplier Cooperation a) SWI Gas CO2 Reduction Work with Southwest Gas to increase customer savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by converting to gas-based water and space heating,when renewable options are not feasible. This switch for water saves about 1.36 tons of carbon dioxide and the switch for space heating saves about 2.04 tons of carbon dioxide. Southwest Gas has connected with the Conservation Committee to make cooperation with TDPUD as simple and effective as possible. Gas lines are available to nearly all homes and businesses in Truckee. Southwest Gas has available a hook-up allowance for the cost of service installation. It is $1,008 per heating system, $271 for water heating, $33 for cooking range, and$52 for gas dryers. The cost is $13.04/ft if Southwest Gas provides the trench or $6.29/ft if the customer provides the trench. For many customers (assuming 50 feet of gas line) the hook-up cost would be covered by allowances. Customers would only pay for new gas appliances. Switching from electric to gas water heating saves 3600 kWh and uses 200 therms per year'Customers who switch from electric to gas water heating save $170 per year on their bill ($310 versus $480 for electric) and save 1.36 tons of carbon dioxide. Space heating savings are 5400 kWh,gas usage is 300 therms,bill savings are $146 ($567 versus $713), and carbon dioxide savings are 2.04 tons per year.Jimmy Smith (SW Gas representative) can be reached at 530-582-7228. Annual Budget: $0 Expected Savings: 350 MWh per year assuming 100 customers switch from electric to natural gas water heating. b) SW Gas Low Income Wleatheritiation Currently, SW Gas already has a program in place for Truckee customers. TDPUD could contract with the same organization and add electric efficiency improvements to the list of measures already completed for SW Gas. They have a combined agreement like this with Sierra Pacific Power already for non-Truckee customers. Annual Budget: $10,000 Expected Savings: depends on number of low income customers that get free weatherization each summer 6 California Statewide Residential Appliance Saturation Study-RASS,KEl1A-XENERGY,2005 Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l1-19-07 Page 5 of 10 9) TDPUD Power of Conservation Website should provide education, audits, tracking of installed measures, advertising, events, self-reporting tools, and evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V). The TDPUD Conservation website is the backbone of the TDPUD conservation and renewable energy programs.Annual Budget: $7,600 ($4,000 for design and setup and ongoing cost of$300 per month). Expected Savings: 130 MWh per year assuming 100 kWh per residential and commercial customer assuming 1300 customers install at least 1 CFL. 10) Targeted Programs a) Million CFL Program for giveaway and incentives with recycling of used CFLs to prevent improper mercury disposal. 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. TDPUD already provides incentives for CFLs. Annual Budget: $100,000 Expected Savings: 6,000 MWh per year assuming installation of 100,000 CFLs per year. b) LED light swap Each holiday season (between Thanksgiving and Christmas), the TPDUD buys a bulk amount of LED light strings. In combination with local events, the PUD promotes using the more efficient LED lights to decorate by trading old light strings for new LED strings. More details on this program are attached below. Annual Budget: $10,000 Expected Savings: 357 MWh annually assuming 1,000 C7-type light strings are traded out. c) Low Interest Loans To encourage customers to make larger capital intensive improvements in efficiency, the TDPUD should create a revolving loan fund that lends customers the a percentage of the total amount needed to do efficiency and conservation improvements. The payments could be made with the monthly usage bill to increase the collection rate and timeliness. The loans would be available for projects like window replacement,adding insulation, new low-voltage light fixtures,instant low-volume water heaters, solar water heating systems, and solar PV projects. Annual Budget: $0 Expected Benefits: tbd d) SolarPV The SB1 rebate program will encourage customers to convert from using TDPUD- supplied electricity, as well as encourage the same customers to make their buildings as energy efficient as possible prior to making the capital investment in solar PV. The more successful the SB1 rebate program is, the less electricity the District will have to buy-- and this is exactly what our goals are. Annual Budget: $177,400 Expected Benefits: tbd Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l1-19-07 Page 6 of 10 Program Budget mmary # Program Description Budget$ PB AB1890 EE AB2021 S131 solar non-le 1 Tiered Electric Rates $0 $0 2 Tiered Water Rates commercial $0 $0 3 Optional Green Power Program $0 $0 4 Defined Marketing and Media Buying Plan $50,000 $50,000 5 Load Study $50,000 $50,000 6 `Live Smart' Program A Rebates $100,000 $100,000 B Low Income TDPUD $50,000 $50,000 C Appliance Recycling $45,000 $45,000 7 Community Outreach A Truckee Energy Challenge $75,000 $75,000 B Green Neighborhood $75,000 $75,000 C Green Schools & Energy Education $25,000 $25,000 8 Professional Outreach A Green Partners: Retail, Restaurant, Hospitality $32,500 $32,500 B Green Construction: Builders, Installers $50,000 $50,000 9 Energy Supplier Cooperation A SW Gas CO2 Reduction $0 $0 B SW Gas Low Income Weatherization $10,000 $10,000 10 TDPUD Website $7,600 $7,600 11 Targeted Programs A Million CFL $100,000 $100,000 B LED Light Swap $10,000 $10,000 B Low Interest Financing $0 $0 C Solar PV 1 $177,400 1, $177,400 Total 1 $857,500 11 $447,600 1 $132,500 1 $177,400 1 $100,000 Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l1-19-07 Page 7of10 TDPUD Conservation Committee Program Recommendation Tiered Water Rates: Commercial Summary: Water rates are currently set up so that commercial customers that use more than their allowance are charged a lower rate per gallon.We propose that the rate per gallon for metered accounts (which is only commercial accounts at this time) increase as more water is consumed. Currently, customers that use water in excess of the base allowance are charged on a decreasing fee the more they exceed the allowance. Description Here are the current commercial water rates (also from the TDPUD website). All of these will go up 6% on Jan 1, 2008. Commercial Water Rates -Apply to all duplex and other multiple dwelling units, trailer parks, and other commercial establishment Size Gallons/Mo Base Rate 3/4" 6,000 $42.43 1" 11,000 50.61 1-1/4" 17,000 60.91 1-1/2" 24,000 71.14 2" 43,000 97.79 3" 96,000 163.71 4" 171,000 234.24 Water used in any month above the allowance will be charged as follows: 0 to 16,000 gallons $1.89/1,000 16,000 - 56,000 gallons $1.49/1,000 56,000 - 96,000 gallons $1.19/1,000 96,000 and above $0.97/1,000 Since the water rates for large customers are a decreasing block structure (the more you use the less you pay per unit),it occurs to us that it would take an equal amount of energy per unit to provide the extra water use that could be incented by this rate structure. Unless the water department has a similar deal on electricity charges (the more energy they use the less they pay per kWh),it would seem to us that they would make a smaller (or negative) profit on the extra water they are pumping from wells to meet this need. If they are paying a flat kWh rate for electricity and charging a declining rate for water,we don't think the math adds up. Financials Current data on how many customers exceed the baseline allowance is not known. Expected impact would be an initial increase in revenue,but eventual reduction of commercial water use, once conservation measures are implemented. If they were not able or willing to conserve, they would pay higher overall bills. Open issues * Largest customers would pay for more of the rate increase * Need to find out how many customers exceed allowance and how often it happens * Should there be different allowances for summer and winter? Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l1-19-07 Page 8 of 10 TDPUD Conservation Committee Program Recommendation LED Holiday Light Swap Summary: Free exchange of old holiday lights for new LED ones. Nevada City had a light swap in 2006 and is having another this year. Customers bring in old lights and are given a new set with LED bulbs. This would be a copy-cat program. TDPUD needs to buy a supply of LED light strings and have them available at the District Office. In addition,the Committee will organize coordination with local events to have light swap available there. For each old string turned in, a customer would get a new LED string. There is no limit to the number of strings that can be traded in.We will also give out information on the expected savings, where to buy more (or different types) LED lights and other TDPUD Conservation Programs with each exchange. Pros: * Cuts usage during holiday peak period * Customers save money (see Consumer Reports article link below) * LED's don't burn out as fast, so they'll last longer * Reduces risk of fires because LED's are cooler * If replacing C7 or C9 lights, cost per kWh saved is $.02-$.03 * Raises local awareness and gets more groups involved in conservation promotion Cons: * More expensive per kWh savings if only replacing mini lights (estimated at$0.60-$.78/kWh for 28- 34 watt strings) Financials Materials: The retails cost of LED light strings are$8.99/50-light string. If we buy 500,the estimated cost would be$5,000 for lights. Marketing and Promotion: * flyer/ad design ($100) * printing flyers ($150) * Chamber email blast and radio ad time ($450). We can also ad free radio announcements,but there is no guarantee on when or how often it will be read (Public Service Announcements). *Brickelltown posters,if we get approval this week (by 11/14). * Chamber Newsletter insert,if we get approval this week (by 11/14). * Note on December customer bills (free) *TDPUD website announcement (free) Event staffing will be all volunteer. Coordinate with any or all of the following local groups: Truckee-Donner Chamber,TCAN, Rotary, SiGBA,Fire Dept Open issues * What would be done with old lights that are turned in? Possibly donate to artists for re-use in new artwork. PUD could offer a prize for most creative use. * How much do LED lights cost? see above Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l1-19-07 Page 9of10 *Are LED lights available at local stores?Yes - Mountain Hardware. * Would they be willing to donate or give at discounted price?Not sure, need to talk with managers. Lights are on sale now until Nov 30 anyway, $2/string discount * Where and when can we hold this event?Weekend and/or evening?Before or after a PUD Board Meeting or other'energy efficiency' event? - Ongoing event at District Office -Weekly event at Brickelltown Christmas, every Thurs between Thanksgiving and Christmas, 4-8 pm -Before every Board Meeting between Thanksgiving and Christmas, 5:30-6pm -Additional Events can be added as needed * other details open for discussion External links Consumer Reports Dec 2007 article litip://www.consumerreports.org/cro/home-garden/home- dcor/furnishings-dcor/outdoor-lighting/holiday-lights-incandescent-vs.-led-12- 07/overview/holidU-Ii hts-ov thtm? Nevada City Light Swap article http•//xvw-w,s,r�rg/sierra-citizen/sc-view article.asp?id=382 Mountain Hardware hours/contact http•//"-xv.mountaitihardwareandsl2orts.com/contactus.html Case study http://ww-%v.ases.org/askketi/2006/06-41.htm Conservation Committee-Interim Recommendations,l 1-19-07 Page 10 of 10 Page 1 of 1 Barbara Cahill From: Doug Grandy[dgrandy@winfirst.com] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:22 AM To: Barbara Cahill Subject: FW: last additional part of package Here it is From: Doug Grandy [mailto:dgrandy@winfirst.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:25 PM To: 'Barbara Cahill' Subject: last additional part of package Barbara - Here is the copy of the Committee's interim proposal. Sorry for the inconvenience of it being so late, but it was a hurry-up effort, and but for Joanna's good work on it we wouldn't have it at all. If it's too late to go into the Board Books I can just hand out paper copies when the item comes up, though that won't give them a chance to read this 10 page document ahead of time. Thanks, Doug 11/19/2007