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HomeMy WebLinkAbout8 Conservation Committee Agenda Item # Ni TRUCKEE O w PUblic Utility District Workshop To: Board of Directors From: Doug Grandy, Chairperson Date: January 23, 2008 Conservation Committee Monthly Report 1. Committee meetings a. Minutes of Nov 12, Dec 6 meetings 2. Future meetings set: Thursday Feb 7th, Tues March 4th, Thursday April 3rd, Tues May 6th, Thursday June 5th, and Tuesday July 1 st 3. Christmas light program results 4. Conservation measures from E3 model — Progress to date 5. Communications Issues 6. Water and Power Conservation Plan progress Conservation Committee Monday November 12th 2007 Meeting start 6:13pm Attendance: Tom Gorin, Gerald Herrick, Ben Benson, Brian Woody, Doug Grandy, Rolf Godon, Anna Demm, Joanna Walters, Jim Booth I. Call to Order- Joanna calls meeting to order 6:08 II. Oct 11th meetings still need to be approved via email. III. Public Input IV. Meetings were called in response to the last board meeting. Robert Mowris' presentation to the board went well and they would like more information to review for 2008 budget. On Friday a meeting was held with Alan to discuss how the public benefit money was going to be allocated in reference to the numbers that were requested in Robert Mowris plan. Alan Harry directs $175,913 of the money to Steve Hollabaugh for purchase of renewable energy. That money is to buy power that is part of the normal energy portfolio. Another$175,000 is directed to wire to water. Total public benefit funds $549,103; however a portion is deducted to cover staff costs. Net public benefit money is $476,913. Truckee Energy Challenge and Green Neighborhood was not allocated a lot of money because Alan Harry did not think the program was thought through and developed enough. So $1,000 was allocated to help with planning. Schools were allocated $20,000 to provide one grade level presentation material for energy and water conservation ideas in the home. The Green building plan was not accepted by Alan Harry because he was concerned that it involved town building code and it would be difficult to monitor. The public benefit number is determined by calculating 2.85% of the previous year's sales. Wednesday November 141h there will be a meeting with the general manager, the President of the Board of Directors and staff for the PUD to discuss the programs and costs associated with the conservation committee. The possible agenda items are not limited to the Robert Mowris list of recommendations. The committee can call it an interim recommendation so that the remainder of the time that the committee has can be spent refining and adding more items. This document should not be considered the final committee recommendations. However getting programs and conservation committee ideas in the 2008 budget would be a win and would give the community a head start. Adding green power and tiered rates should be added to the document to present all the major concepts the committee is currently working on. Additionally a marketing plan needs to be developed to cover all the programs. A program is only as good as the marketing attached to it. Complete program/item list that need funds allocated. ■ Tiered Rates for Electric and Water ■ Green Neighborhood ■ Rebate programs ■ Low Income assistance programs ■ Appliance Recycling ■ Truckee Climate Challenge Items fall under"Programs" ■ Green Partners ■ Energy Audits of the largest consumers to reduce w ■ Green Schools ■ Green Builder ■ Million CFL program ■ CFL Recycling Program • SW Gas CO2 redu Program ■ Holiday LED Light swap 10 2007 budget ($7,500) ■ Website/ Marketing Plan with Marketing specific to Conservation ■ Load Study Taking the list above and removing all items that can not be classified as a program- below is the table of line items. All items not listed as a specific line item are grouped under Programs Item Est. Budget Request Proposed Allan budget Wire to water 0 $175,000 Supply Contracts 0 $175,913 Programs listed above $425,000 $118,500 Tiered Rates 0 Load Study $50,000 residential/commercial Marketing Plan $75,000 $7,500 Voluntary Green program 0 All programs must have a marketing and measure attached to it- to determine success and conservation effects. The Marketing Plan above is to cover a comprehensive conservation message. Each program would also have to support itself with money allocated to marketing. It is crucial that the PUD no longer spend any of the Public Benefit fund towards purchase of power (supply contracts) and replacement of well pumps. Rate increase in electric will occur because of an increase in energy cost. $40 is the current contract that expires on 12/31/07. The same contract would increase to $75 for 2008. Doug Grandy moves to accept the above list and table with the addition of the material Robert Mowris presented and as packaged by Eric Perlman . Jim Booth 2nds. A discussion about the list, potential conflicts, options, etc ensued. Joanna Walters calls a vote. No one opposed, all in favor. Doug Grandy wanted to make clear to the committee that his presentation to the board on Monday would be affected by the Wednesday meeting. The committee communicated their understanding and acceptance that Doug Grandy could represent the committee as a whole. Meeting was adjourned 9:10pm. Conservation Committee Minutes Monday December 6th 2007 I. Call to Order- Joanna calls meeting to order 6:15pm II. Roll Call- Attendance: Anna, Tom, Rolf, Scott, Eric, John, Ben, Joanna, Gerald, Christa, Ronnie, Doug, Tony Paulson III. Minutes for November 6th and November 12th were passed out. No one had any additions, corrections or alterations to the October 11th and November 6th. October 11th and November 6th minutes were both presented to the board. They have been accepted by the committee and are of record. A conversation regarding details of the November 12th minutes occurred. Changes were requested to clear the language around the cost of power per megawatt hour. Christa made a motion to accept the minutes and Gerald 2nd; all passed minutes were accepted with the changes to the November 12th pending. IV. Future meeting dates were set Tues Jan 8th, Thur Feb 7th, Tues March 4th, Thur April 3rd, Tues May 6th, Thur June 5th, and Tues July 1 st(if needed). Scott handed out a summary list of "measures" (residential and commercial) recommended for maximum benefit as defined by the e3 manual condensing a list of over 5,000 measures. It was suggested the committee review the list and remove any measures that do not make sense for Tahoe area and add any items that have been left off. The list was discussed and refined. All the remaining items need to be prioritized, researched and developed further prior to presentation to the board as recommendations for rebates or other programs. V. Doug Grandy reviewed the material presented to the board. This information was a compilation of the committee's input and PUD staff input. Everything was well received from tiered rates to marketing plan. A handout was presented listing each item and a recommendation for action. Joanna passed out the document that was created from the Robert Mowris document and the 2 meetings in November. Many of the individual programs that we talked about were grouped into larger sub-headings to make it more concise to present. For example, Live Smart covers all residential energy saving programs. The board expressed appreciation for the work and time of the committee members. Progress was made and a much larger conservation budget will be spent on energy saving programs and measures in '08 compared to `07. VI. Tony Paulson, SunEdison was the guest speaker. He spent about an hour discussing the solar energy industry and the various methods of entering the system. Sun Edison is the largest solar energy service in the U.S. Active in 7 states, with 101% output (versus contract requirements) and output of 70 megawatts all from 100% PV. Based on research, experience and maintenance Sun Edison receives on average 20% output from their panels. Sun Edison just installed a merchant based plant, 7.2 megawatt facility in Colorado. A merchant plant is a power plant that was built based on the guarantee of a business to purchase the power. The model that Sun Edison follows is to own and operate equipment/facility and then sell power to a 3rd party. Sun Edison has bought $1 billion in panels. The company is able to supply inexpensive panels that connect to a larger system. The investors in Sun Edison carry the risk and gain the tax benefits from the green power. This takes all the risk off the local municipal. We are no longer limited to the 1 to 1.5 megawatt. Power Purchase agreements with developers have worked extremely well. A developer building a 30,000 household community partners with Sun Edison to build a "farm" next to the community. The community then has a 20 year contract to buy X amount of power from Sun Edison. Fresno is committed to going green using the community choice aggregation model. They are financially strapped, there is limited opportunity. A solar plant or green farm offers local opportunity and a chance to minimize the impact on the environment that the local community relies so heavily on. There is a cost deferential and coal is cheaper now, but it will not be for long. 7 acre = about 1 megawatt. Sun Edison signs 20 year contracts because the life time of the equipment is about 25 years. The pricing for green power is competitive with the goal of staying level with all brown power prices increasing annually. Costs for green power moving forward are fixed in the building and maintenance of the farm. The question is what is your game plan in 20 years? Coal plants are on the way out with more closing every year increasing the demand and cost for gas. Building the power plants where the power is needed reduces the cost of transmission and reduces the energy lost in transmission. The goal for Sun Edison is to match PV with a fuel cell that equals the load of the community. Sun Edison can support the committee with information and numbers to help present ideas for entering the green power market. When you make big changes you receive big impact. Sun Edison is only focusing on the biggest deals that offer the most impact. A discussion ensued regarding the hurdles and opportunities of building a green power farm locally. Someone suggested the 15 acres that Old Greenwood donated to the town would make a great spot for a farm. Energy is the only industry that is not distributed; the decisions need to be fiscally minded. The committee is interested in the concept of pursuing the idea of a green power farm, more research and consideration needs to occur before this is presented to the board as a recommendation. VII. Subcommittee reports Strategy met with the Alan and John Ulrich to discuss the structure of tiered rates. Low income would need a special category if we don't do tiered rates so they would be protected against a big bill increase. The remaining details still need to be worked out. Since the fixed costs are covered by the kilowatt-hour customer cost- if you reduce consumption you will need to replace the money. During the meeting a list of customer consumption was presented, the committee was surprised by some data. The structure of the rates is still TBA. In the Committee's recommendations, there are expected to be 3 tiers. Outreach reported that of the 500 LED, only 350 remain. The program has been positive and it has people talking about LED lights! Doug passed out Alan's list of communication requirements and advised the committee on the requests from Alan Harry regarding committee member communication and behavior. The feelings of the Committee are that we have not had to ask Alan for permission to access public information before. The board approved the use of the Yahoo site, which Alan now refuses to use. Alan's message was nothing is going to happen without a directive from the board. The committee agreed that the issue of communication with the staff was too important and that the matter should be presented to the board for resolution if we can't work out something more reasonable with staff. Vill. The meeting was adjourned 9:19pm TDPUD Conservation Committee Residential Measures Appliances Space Cooling, Clothes WashersX Ceiling Fans DishwashersX Shade Screens RefrigeratorsX Whole House Fans Cooking Equipment Solar Attic Fans Swamp Coolers Building_Efficiency Window Treatments- tinting Attic/Ceiling Insulation Caulking/WeatherstrippingX Space Heating Floor Insulation Air Duct LeakageX Wall Insulation Air Duct ReplacementsX Windows Blower Door Air Leak TestingX Ground Source Heat PumpX Electronics Programmable Thermostats Phantom Load Strategies Solar Thermal for Space Heating Battery Charging Systems Digital-Analog Converter Boxes Water Heating Cordless Phones EE Water HeatersX TV/VCR &TV/DVD Combo Units Non-Electric Water Heaters External Power Adapters Water Heater Wraps Home Audio Solar Water Heating Televisions EE Hot Tubs (pumps/motors) VCRs Distributed Generation Lighting Solar Photovoltaics Ballasts CFLsX Exit Signs Fixture Retrofit Lamp Replacement Lighting Controls TDPUD Conservation Committee Commercial Measures Appliances Clothes Washers, Dishwashers, RefersX Photocells Glass Doors on Open Display Cases HID- Int. Pulse Start Strip Curtains on Walk-in Boxes HID Fixtures Insulated Hot Food Cabinet- EE Case Lighting- Electronic Ballasts Insulated Hot Food Cabinet- High Perf. Metal Halide Pulse Start Ret. Fixture Display Case w/Doors- Low Temp Ceramic Metal Halide(CMH)Fixtures Display Case w/Doors- Med. Temp Motors Building Efficiency High Efficiency Motors Door Gaskets High Efficiency Pumps Door Auto-Closers Space Cooling Electronics Programmable Thermostat Computers Chillers w/VFD & w.o./VFD Copiers & Fax Machines Split System Air Conditioner Digital Duplicators Unitary Air Conditioner External Power Adapters Package Terminal AC Notebook Computers/Tablet PCs Package Terminal, Split System& Mailing Machines Unitary Heat Pump Monitors Ground Source Heat PumpsX Printers, Scanners, All-in-Ones Evaporative Condensers Water Coolers Window Films Lightin&X Space Heating Exit Signs- LED Programmable Thermostat Channel Sign- LEDs Central FAU Distribution LeakageX Channel Sign- Replacement Ground Source Heat PumpsX Channel Sign- Retrofit Replacing Incandescents Water Heating Replacing with CFLs & LEDs High Eff. Electric Water HeatersX Incandescent to Mercury Vapor EE Non-Electric Water Heaters Fixture Replacements Fixture Replacement- Lin. Fluor. Distributed Generation Hard-wired Fluorescent Fixtures Solar Photovoltaics Incandescent- Ext. Pulse Start Fixture Replacement- CFLs Energy/Load Management Lamp & Ballast Retrofit Energy Management Systems Lamp & Ballast Retrofit- Dimming Summer Peak Load Controls Lamp & Ballast Retrofit- Non-Dimming Lamp Removal Other Induction lamps &Fixtures Compressed Air Systems Occupancy Sensors Time Clocks- 7 Day wBack-Up