Putting Research into Action Sara Patton

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Putting Research into ActionSara Patton
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Bright Future
NW Energy Coalition

• How to keep the Northwests lights on, jobs
  growing, goods moving and salmon swimming in the
  era of climate change.

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The Challenge

• Meet the greenhouse gas-reduction goals set by
  the Governors of WA, OR and MT, the International
  Panel on Climate Change and the Western Climate
  Initiative

15 reduction from 1990 levels by 2020, 80 or
larger reduction by 2050.

• While
• Serving growing loads
• Saving endangered wild salmon
• Providing power to electrify transportation

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Clean Energy Solution

• Energy efficiency is the powerhouse.
• Enough to serve load growth -- 340 aMW/yr
• Combined heat and power
• The overlooked resource
• New Renewables
• Huge Potential

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Jobs in a Bright Future

• On a per-megawatt-hour comparison
• Energy efficient creates three times as many jobs
  as coal or natural-gas generation. Wind and
  biomass nearly twice as many. Solar PV job
  potential is huge.

Jobs per aMW
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Bill Impact

• Not counting, of course, the benefits of a
  cleaner planet, robust economy, abundant salmon,
  energy security

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Getting to a Bright Future

• Cap CO2 emissions
• Regional leadership from BPA on energy efficiency
  and renewables
• A strong 6th Power Plan - energy efficiency,
  renewables and weaned from coal

• Extend state renewable standards beyond 2025
• No new coal plants - no extending the life of
  existing plants

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Power of Efficiency

• Meta study energy efficiency potential through
  2020
• Research analysis by Ecotope
• Covers both electricity and natural gas end uses

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Power of Efficiency

• Regional findings
• Enough cost effective energy efficiency (5200
  aMW) to meet ordinary electric load growth
  through 2020
• Enough cost effective natural gas energy
  efficiency to meet half of growth in natural gas
  (using .80/therm, same as ETO)

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Power of Efficiency

• Findings, cont
• 50/ton carbon adder increases electric energy
  efficiency potential by 20
• Carbon adder increases natural gas potential only
  slightly

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Power of Efficiency

• Key outreach messages
• Make energy efficiency SOP in decision making
• Work with your utility
• Support public officials who make energy
  efficiency a priority
• Your choices determine if we can secure a clean
  affordable energy future

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Turning Research into ActionKim Drury

• Energy Efficiency - Barriers and Solutions

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Energy Efficiency -

• We know theres plenty available -
• We know its the cleanest, cheapest and fastest
  energy resource -
• We know it delivers lots of other benefits
  -consumer savings, less utility risk, good paying
  local jobs, water savings . . .

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So - if were so smart . . .

• Why arent we rich?

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White paper on barriers and solutions

• Factors that get in the way of rational energy
  efficiency decision-making and highlight
  strategies that succeed in overcoming those
  barriers.
• A guide for regional planners, policy makers,
  activists, marketers and others
• A compendium of solutions so we can fully realize
  the energy efficiency potential

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Research approach

• Literature review
• Utilities, evaluators, PECI, ETO, NEEA, NEEC,
  architects, developers and others asked
• What are the barriers to saving more energy in
  the Northwest?
• What are the solutions for overcoming those
  barriers?

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Answers grouped into seven broad areas

• Communication
• Money and conflicting motivations
• Collaboration and cooperation
• The value of champions
• The need for good standards and codes
• Workforce
• Technology

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1. Communication Inform. Educate. Repeat.

• Barrier Failure to communicate
• A press release from one of our favorite
  utilites . . .reduce their carbon footprint by
  450 million pounds of carbon dioxide annually and
  that customers saved a combined 274 million
  kilowatt hours of electricity and 3.7 million
  therms of natural gas.
• Whats a CFL?
• My energy bill shows what I used two months ago!
• Save energy? Or the planet? Or money?

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1. Communication Inform. Educate. Repeat.

• Solution Motivate with language and ideas from
  real life
• Tell the story
• Tie saving energy to Northwest values
• Drop the technical in favor of the understandable
• Feedback - meaningful feedback
• Figure out whatand whomoves people

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2. Money and conflicting motivations

• Barrier The wheels of efficiency need alignment
• Split incentives
• Landlord/tenant
• Manufacturers/consumers
• Developers/owners
• Relatively low energy costs
• Low rates low price response
• Small (tiny?) percentage of overall costs
• Capital
• Utility programs and tax incentives require
  upfront cash
• A large share of building stock not eligible for
  tax incentives (schools, libraries, churches,
  state and local government)
• Product utility - not payback

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2. Money and conflicting motivations

• Solution align money and interests
• Green leases
• Education better buildings yield higher ROI
• Standards/codes to build in EE
• Decoupling for utilities
• ESCOs
• Creativity ala Red Lion/Graybar/Idaho Power

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• Stay tuned - report available in July

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Venues for Action

• Council
• Bonneville Power Administration
• Utilities
• Legislatures

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Preliminary Council Results

• Plan must be followed by BPA
• EE targets binding for I-937 utilities
• Other utilities and their regulators look to
  Councils plan as benchmark
• Making sure that the Councils Plan is consistent
  with Coalition goals is a high priority.

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Council releases draft mid-July

• 60-day comment period
• Public hearings
• Boise
• Missoula
• Spokane
• Seattle
• Portland
• Astoria
• Eugene (?)

Other locations are possible
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BPA

• Energy Efficiency Post-2011
• Draft Phase I decisions out soon.
• Needs Assessment
• Probably no energy augmentation need, but some
  capacity needed for winter and summer peaking and
  wind integration.
• Wind Integration Rate Case
• Draft ROD June 23rd. New scheduling protocols
  reduce need for reserves in half, so rate
  probably reduced to 6 mills/kWh (from original
  12).
• It should be less, but BPA being very cautious in
  developing new procedures.
• Developers want to provide own integration,
  because they can do so cheaper with gas-fired
  generation.