energy efficiency in the adirondacks supporting the adirondack region in its effort to reduce energy...
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Energy Efficiency in the Adirondacks
Supporting the Adirondack Region in its effort to reduce energy costs
Topics For Today
Purpose/LEC Intro How can energy inventories and
benchmarking help your town? Adirondack success stories Overview of energy use in the
Adirondacks
Town
Goal: Create a goal Energy independence for the Adirondacks within 20 years
Why is this important? Every $1 spent locally creates $14 in economic
activity in our communities
Why Conduct an Inventory and Benchmark Energy Usage? What is an Inventory? What does an inventory report tell you? Why is it important?
What can an inventory tell you? General Recommendation: “Evaluate ways to
reduce fuel usage with vehicle fleet. This can be done by analyzing routes, usage, and a strict anti-idling policy.”
Specific Recommendation: “From initial review of the data in this report, it appears that the Town Hall may represent the best opportunity for energy savings among the Town of Long Lake’s municipal buildings. It is the most expensive and shows opportunities for behavioral changes as well as fuel source improvements.”
Inventory Report Example
Energy Inventory: Adirondack Park
32%
15%
9%1%
41%
2%
Residential Building
Commerical Building
Industrial
Agricultural
Mobile Sources
Wastewater and Landfill
$1.5 billion per year spent on energy in the Park
What we spend as a region on energy for residences
Residential Cost Per Year
LP Gas: $30 millionElectricity: $82 millionFuel Oil: $130 million
2007-2008LP Gas: $3.05/galElectricity: $0.17/ kWhFuel Oil: $3.63/gal
$189 million per year
If we reduced what we spent on energy by 30% we could afford to…
Provide health care for 47,000 families
Send 8,000 students to a four year University
Provide 20 Million low income weatherization kits
Brew 13 million gallons of homemade beer
Buy 30,000 new snowmobiles
Success Stories
Lake Placid Reduced peak load energy usage by 5 MW Change lights Energy Star Appliances Rate Changes
Possible Funding Sources
NYSERDA-FlexTech, Alternative Fuel-Vehicles Program, Financial Assistance Programs, EmPower NY
NYPA-Energy Services Program National Grid–Energy Equipment
Rebates NYSEG-Ca$hback program RGGI
www.adkcap.org www.cleanair-coolplanet.org
Maria LeonardiClean Air-Cool Planet/ADKCAP Fellow