energy and communities...$500,000 competitive grant from the southeast energy efficiency alliance to...
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Energy and Communities
Performance Systems Development
Gregory Thomas, CEO
What is a community?
• Examples
– Your municipality
– Students in a school
– School districts
– Your neighborhood
– Your social club
– Your facebook friends
• Your Peers
– Close enough for you to care how you compare
Leveraging a Broad Trend
• Examples
– New York City/NYSERDA
– Northern VA/BPI-EPA
– Texas School Districts/Utility
– Levittown/Building America
– Kansas City/RRU/Utility
– Charlottesville LEAP/RRU
$500,000 competitive grant from the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance to design a community-based energy efficiency program or “Local Energy Alliance”
• 20-40% efficiency gain/structure• 30-50% market penetration
(get to scale)• 5-7 year performance period• Public-private partnership • Self-sustaining approach• Phase in alternative/renewable
energy• Create jobs, create the market• Make it a replicable model
How LEAP Began
LEAP’s Mission Applied
Nonprofit energy services organization: energy and water efficiency program implementer for local community
• Outreach and marketing on the advantages of efficiency
• Financing source for energy and water related improvements
• Quality Assurance provider for property owners and occupants
Workforce development engine to train and grow the performance contracting industry through our partnership with local community college
Dominion Power partner – SmartGrid technology for energy management and verification of efficiency gains
Aggregator of energy efficiency benefits for the community
IT Tool Integration and the Customer Relationship
ESTABLISH PROFILE: marketing, benchmarking campaign, online audit, schedule energy assessment
DIAGNOSTIC AUDIT AND RETROFIT: select pre-qualified auditor/contractor
• Get financing approval; learn about applicable rebates and incentives
• Data download to pre-populate audit fields
• Project quality assurance/measurement and verification reports
CUSTOMER MEMBERSHIP IN LEAP
• Members Rewards – tiered approach for product and service discounts tied to user defined goals, contests, and M&V of savings
• Behavior /HEMS – continued opportunities for energy savings
EFFICIENCY DIVIDENDS: carbon offsets, white tags, aggregating community gains for forward capacity market
• Low cost maintenance and commissioning
• Energy Savings Account (“e-cashback” through the EE Utility)
NEXT WAVE: Additional retrofit measures, renewables
Other Potential Communities
Department of Energy Retrofit Ramp Up AwardeesGrant Proposal Spearheaded by Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance
AuditIntake
Analyzing Retrofit Process Flow
ContractWorkscope
to CrewWorkscope
Dev.Proposal
Test Out
Tracking ReportingBenchmarking
Residential Retrofit Process:
FinancialBPI
Contractor
Utility
Home Owner Programs orQA Provider
RESNET
CarbonAggregators
QA
A complex process with many players.
Data transfer protocols increase process efficiency.
Aggregations of data provide
value.
TQM Systems Integration with the Community Retrofit Process
Do: Implement retrofit or change in
operations
Study: Input actual energy use and test predictions
Adjust: Adjust ongoing activities based on findings
Plan: Predict post retrofit performance
• Total Quality Management
• How does this building use energy?
• How does the energy use of this building compare to others?
• What renovations would save the most energy?
• How much energy was actually saved? How did that compare to the predicted savings?
Customer and Contractor Portal
Compass Data Hub
Service Provider Audit Tools
Utilities and Weather
SurveyorHPXML Recurve
REMRATETREAT
EnergyProEquest
Field QA
SurveyorXML in
Compass Community Program Implementation Platform
Program and Contractor Portal
Find and Select Contractors
Contractors Associated with Energy bills
Energy Usage ReportHow does
home compare to
national average?
What is biggest use of energy in home?
What is costing the
most for energy?
How much can the homeowner
spend on improvements?
What is biggest use of energy in the home?
Model true-up
info
Peer Comparison ReportTotal Energy comparison
yields first level analysis.
But comparison of end use shows that totals were masking
a heating improvement opportunity.
PAHE Distribution of HEY scores
Building Comparison View
Sample Community Scorecard NYSERDA/NYC Commercial
An Open Market for Audit Tools
Audit: Can You Stand Behind Your Savings Predictions?
Data Transfer Protocols
PSD is partnering with BPI under an EPA contract to develop a reporting data transfer protocol for Home Performance with ENERGY STAR:
• XML definition for incorporation into software tools
• Default Adobe Acrobat form as default
• Leverages NREL measure cost database structure
• Utility billing data e-Know bill
Integrated Light Audit
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Cost per Ton of CO2 by ImprovementTennessee
Cost per Ton of CO2 Saved Cumulative Tons of CO2 Saved
Implementation Management
Support For Multiple Roles
Savings By Improvement Category
Quality Assurance and Contractor Comparisons
• Use of peer comparisons can help identify poorly performing contractors or be used as part of contests.
• Data from multiple audit tools feeds to field data collection tool for comparison to QA inspection results.
Field QA - Too many readings at exactly 1000 CFM reduction = Someone skipping tests
User-data entered into “NYSERDA Portal”
Data verification will ensure a high quality NY-specific data set.
EnterBuilding Data
Level 1 QARequired for EPA ABS 1.0
Admission toSandbox(General Data Set)
Level 2 QAandManual Override
On-siteVerification(Licensed Engineer)
Admission toComparison Data Set
Admission toVerifiedData Set
Utilized inComparison Reports
Sample Community Scorecard NYSERDA/NYC Commercial
