American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Energy Programs In Virginia

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Energy
Programs In Virginia

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• Virginia Energy Supplier Working Group
• Richmond
• September 8, 2009

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Virginia Energy Supplier Working Group

• Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and
  Energy (DMME) mission
• We enhance the development and conservation of
  energy and mineral resources in a safe and
  environmentally sound manner to support a more
  productive economy in Virginia.

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Virginia Energy Supplier Working Group

• Proposed by DMME for providers of energy and
  water, other energy efficiency stakeholders in
  order to
• Coordinate, improve energy efficiency activities

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Why a Virginia Energy Supplier Working Group

• Recovery Act energy efficiency incentives
• Utility incentive programs
• Local conservation programs
• Community Energy Conservation Programs
• Funded with ARRA block grants
• Home Performance with Energy Star
• Northern Virginia national pilot
• Other HPwES programs in development
• Virginia Energy Sense
• Energy Star Appliance Rebate Program

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DMME Recovery Act energy efficiency programs

• Consistent with state policy
• Virginia Energy Plan
• Efficiency and clean energy production
• Energy education
• Climate change actions
• Energy economic development
• Governors Commission on Climate change
• Actions to reduce GHG emissions
• Address unfunded legislative initiatives
• Tax credits clean energy manufacturing
  incentive

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Virginia Energy Sense

• 10 million consumer education and outreach
  program, five-year effort directed by SCC
• Supports goal of reducing electricity
  consumption by retail customers by 10 percent by
  the year 2022.
• Increase awareness of energy efficiency
  benefits
• Working group can help to reduce duplication
  and improve effectiveness of multiple programs,
  provide input to the managers of Virginia Energy
  Sense

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DMME Recovery Act energy efficiency AND renewable
programs

• 15 million rebates for energy efficiency
  improvements to residential and commercial
  facilities
• 10 million block grants to localities
• 38 million rebates or grants for solar thermal,
  photovoltaic and small-scale wind
• 10 million grants for incentives to develop
  energy from biomass and waste
• 5 million to attract clean energy businesses
• 5 million for commercialization of energy
  products
• Two circuit riders to work with localities on
  energy project development target performance
  contracting

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Local conservation programs

• Community Energy Conservation Programs
• ARRA block grant recipients proposing a dozen or
  more
• Home Performance with Energy Star
• Northern Virginia national pilot
• Other HPwES programs explored

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Local conservation programs Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Block Grants

• Formula grants to Virginia
• 44.6 million direct to 28 localities
• 9.7 million competitive to smaller localities
• DMME ready to receive grant applications
• EECBG Purposes
• Reduce fossil fuel emissions
• Decrease total energy consumption
• Improve energy efficiency in the transportation,
  building, and other energy consuming sectors
• Spur economic growth
• Create or retain jobs

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Local conservation programs EECBG Direct Grant
Cities

• Alexandria 1,372,800
• Arlington 2,085,100
• Blacksburg 186,900
• Charlottesville 195,300
• Chesapeake 2,046,900
• Danville 202,200
• Hampton 1,388,800
• Harrisonburg 206,200
• Leesburg 164,700

• Lynchburg 740,000
• Manassas 159,400
• Newport News 1,757,300
• Norfolk 2,451,100
• Portsmouth 1,002,000
• Richmond 2,106,200
• Roanoke 963,700
• Suffolk 741,100
• Virginia Beach 4,042,000
• Localities in white exploring community energy
  programs, may not use EECBG

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Local conservation programs EECBG Direct Grant
Counties

• Albemarle County 406,000
• Chesterfield County 2,740,100
• Fairfax County 9,642,800
• Hanover County 409,400
• Henrico County 2,791,100
• Loudoun County 2,215,600
• Prince William County 3,226,400
• Roanoke County 372,800
• Spotsylvania County 474,400
• Stafford County 484,300

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Local conservation programs List of local block
grant plans

• DMME web page has list of 28 large locality
  program summaries and will include same for
  smaller localities as competitive block grants
  are awarded
• http//www.dmme.virginia.gov/de/arra/arra.shtml
• http//dreamweavertest/de/arra/EECBGProgram.shtml
• http//dreamweavertest/de/arra/LargeLocality.xls

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Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program

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• Slides 14-28 of this presentation cover the
  Virginia appliance rebate program. They
  complement and should be viewed in conjunction
  with the August 27 technical assistance
  PowerPoint presentation for state energy offices
  produced by the U.S. Department of Energy

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DMME Recovery Act energy efficiency AND renewable
programs

• 15 million rebates for energy efficiency
  improvements to residential and commercial
  facilities
• 10 million block grants to localities
• 38 million rebates or grants for solar thermal,
  photovoltaic and small-scale wind
• 10 million grants for incentives to develop
  energy from biomass and waste
• 5 million to attract clean energy businesses
• 5 million for commercialization of energy
  products
• Two circuit riders to work with localities on
  energy project development target performance
  contracting

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Residential Energy Efficiency Rebate Program

• 7 million, up to 2,000 per applicant, plus 250
  for audit
• Efficiency improvements and retrofits by
  homeowners for replacement of major systems
  equipment
• Central A/C
• heat pumps
• furnaces
• boilers
• water heaters
• window replacements
• lighting upgrades
• insulation
• duct sealing
• programmable thermostats

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Commercial Energy Efficiency Rebate Program

• 8 million, three years, up to 4,000 per
  applicant
• Efficiency improvements and retrofits by small
  business and commercial facilities and buildings
  
• HVAC systems and controls
• Water heaters
• Window replacements
• Lighting upgrades
• Insulation
• Duct sealing
• High efficiency motors
• Compressed air or steam system upgrades

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Utility efficiency incentive programs

• Columbia Utiliwize (proposed)
• Dominion Virginia Power (proposed)
• James City Service Authority Be Water Smart
  (active)
• VNG Energy SMART (7.5 million, 3 years
  active)
• Others?

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Utility efficiency incentive programs

• Columbia Gas of Virginia, 9 million, 3 years,
  SCC hearing Oct. 19
• Rebates for
• Space heating, residential and business
• Water heating, residential and business
• Other elements include
• On-line home energy audit
• Low-income program

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Utility efficiency incentive programs

• Dominion (Selected items from DVP website
  summary of SCC filing)
• Residential heat pump retrofits
• Residential heat pump tune-ups.
• Refrigerator turn-in program
• CFL discounts at Home Depot
• Commercial HVAC upgrades
• Commercial lighting upgrades

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Utility efficiency incentive programs

• James City Service Authority Be Water Smart
• 100 rebate Dishwasher
• 150 rebate washing machine
• 100 rebate on-demand hot water recirculator
• 75 rebate toilet

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Utility efficiency incentive programs

• VNG Energy SMART (7.5 million, 3 years)
• Free (or 25 rebate) programmable thermostat
• 500 rebate furnace
• 500 rebate tankless water heater
• 150 rebate storage water heater
• 25 rebate seasonal heating equipment checkup

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Utility efficiency incentive programs

• Other appliance rebate programs?
• Virginia Propane Association

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Program Plan with Budget and Reporting plan

• The Program Plan includes a budget with
  explanation and a plan to address reporting
  requirements. These are key elements to be
  addressed in Letters of Commitment from Partners.

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Program Plan with Budget and Reporting plan
Data collection, fraud prevention

• Program plans must specify
• How partners will monitor progress
• details about how data will be collected and
  submitted
• details on fraud prevention and audit
  mechanisms.

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Program Plan with Budget and Reporting plan
Budget with explanation

Spreadsheet tool for rebate planning and
reporting, and to help develop a budget, are
expected from DOE this week.

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Program Plan with Budget and Reporting plan
Budget with explanation

• Key (preliminary) budget columns
• Annual and total amount of non-federal funds
  committed to appliance rebates, including
  administrative costs
• Annual and total amount of federal funds
  requested, to be used only for customer rebates
  (Cannot exceed item 1)
• Applications accepted until Oct. 6, 2009 for
  funds in Period 1, Period 2 or both. Period One,
  Nov. 1, 2009 to Dec. 31, 2010, federal
  allocations will be calculated first, then Period
  Two, Jan. 1, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2011, in keeping
  with the federal guidelines to spend the money as
  quickly as practical.

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Program Plan with Budget and Reporting plan
Budget with explanation

DMME will provide a template budget, based on the
DOE tool.

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Program Plan with Budget and Reporting plan
Reporting requirements

• Report on rebate fulfillment quarterly
• Number of rebates paid to consumers
• by dollar amount
• and product type
• Total rebate dollars paid to consumers
• Estimated energy savings achieved, based on a
  standard formula for each product, comparing it
  to the usage for its non-ENERGY STAR counterpart
• Estimated jobs created or maintained
• (N/A) Administrative costs by category
• a) Accounting b) Processing c) Marketing
• d) Education e) Tracking

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Final agenda items

• Sub-recipients need DUNS number and register with
  the Central Contractor Registration (CCR).
• Should the working group continue, in general and
  for Energy Star application
• Should we meet again Oct. 6 when Energy Star
  application letters are due
• Can we accomplish our purpose in virtual
  meetings?

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Contacts

• Al Christopher
• Division of Energy
• Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
• 1100 Bank Street, 8th floor
• Richmond VA 23219
• al.christopher_at_dmme.virginia.gov
• [phone]

• Barbara Simcoe
• Division of Energy
• Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
• 1100 Bank Street, 8th floor
• Richmond, VA 23219
• barbara.simcoe_at_dmme.virginia.gov
• [phone]

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More information

• DMME web page for partners will be provided
• http//www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?chome.index
• Coming Soon from DOE The spreadsheet tool and
  model program template that were discussed on the
  DOE webinar will be made available next week. A
  webinar dedicated to recycling issues will be
  scheduled after Labor Day.
• http//www.drintl.com/htmlemail/Program_Design_for
  _SEOs_FINAL_8.27.09.pdf