HOW UTILITIES ARE BENEFITING FROM

MN’S NEW ENERGY SAVINGS PLATFORM

Perspectives on ESP Reporting and Options

Joe Plummer | Department of Commerce

Jeff Haase | Great River Energy

Webinar: June 24, 2014

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CEE Technology Forum

TODAY! Tuesday, June 24th

MacPhail Center (Minneapolis)

Networking Reception 5:00 - 6:15 pm

Program 6:15 - 8:00 pm

Steve Nadel ACEEE

First in a series of anniversary forums

Where MN is Taking the Future of Energy Efficiency

Jay Stein E Source

Mark Brown

My Meter

Rich Szydlowski

CEE Tim Hebrink

3M

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How Utilities are Benefiting From

Minnesota’s New Energy Savings Platform

Joe Plummer Public Utilities Rates Analyst, ESP Program Mgr.

MN Department of Commerce

Division of Energy Resources

Jeff Haase Energy Efficiency Program Coordinator

Great River Energy

Minnesota’s

Energy Savings Platform

Minnesota’s Energy Savings Platform

Jeff Haase

June 24, 2014

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What is ESP ?

• A cloud-based IT platform built to help states and

utilities collaborate to manage and report on energy

efficiency programs

• Developed/owned by Energy Platforms

• Two applications:

• ESP

• ReportingESP

SEO

PUC

Utility

Consultants

Trade Partners

Residential Customers

Commercial Customers

Evaluators

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ESP to ReportingESP Link

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Smart Measure Application Example

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ReportingESP

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Origins of ESP

• Next Generation Energy Act of 2007

established a 1.5% energy savings goal for

MN electric and natural gas utilities

180+ utilities:

• 10 investor-owned utilities

• 44 electric cooperatives

• 120+ municipal utilities

• 10 aggregators

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Origins of ESP

• Need for better reporting tools and database

• Technical assistance (216B.241 subd. 1d) • Create and maintain energy savings assumptions

(technical reference manual)

• Inventory of effective programs and measures

• Help small utilities • From small set of program templates to 52 pre-

approved Smart Measures and user-configurable operational tools

• Useful to all utility types

• Pre-packaged setups for “plug and play”

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MN’s “Digital TRM”

• Technical Reference Manual (TRM): a document

describing how to calculate energy savings for

different measures

• Digital TRM: a shared set of functional, real-time

calculators implemented on a common platform

accessible by multiple user types

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MN’s “Digital TRM”

Key Characteristics of Digital TRM • Less duplication • Centrally managed • Tighter version control • Algorithmic-based

SEO

PUC

Utility

Consultants

Trade Partners

Residential Customers

Commercial Customers

Evaluators

Digital TRM

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Minnesota TRM Smart Measure Library C/I Hot Water Residential Appliances Faucet Aerator, 1.5 gpm (Electric) ENERGY STAR Clothes Washers Faucet Aerator, 1.5 gpm (Gas) ENERGY STAR Dishwashers Pre-Rinse Sprayers (Electric) ENERGY STAR Refrig. and Freezers Pre-Rinse Sprayers (Gas) Secondary Refrig./Freezer Removal Water Heater (Electric) Residential Hot Water Water Heater (Gas) Faucet Aerator, 1.5 gpm (Electric)

C/I HVAC Faucet Aerator, 1.5 gpm (Gas) Unitary and Split Systems Low Flow Showerheads, 1.5 gpm (Electric) Variable Speed Drives Low Flow Showerheads, 1.5 gpm (Gas) Boiler Modifications, Space Heating Only Water Heater Setback (Electric) Boilers, Space Heating Only Water Heater Setback (Gas) C/I Lighting Water Heater (Electric) CFL Standard to Low Wattage Retrofit Water Heater (Gas) Controls Residential HVAC Exit Sign Retrofit with LED/LEC Central AC/ASHP Exterior Canopy/Soffit Retrofit with LED ECM Blower Motors Exterior Wall Pack Retrofit with LED Furnaces and Boilers High Pressure Sodium Retrofit Furnaces Tune-Up Incandescent Over 100W Retrofit Programmable Thermostats (electric) Incandescent Up to 100W Retrofit Programmable Thermostats (gas) Mercury Vapor Retrofit Residential Insulation and Air Sealing Metal Halide Retrofit Residential Lighting New Construction CFLs and ENERGY STAR Torchieres Pulse Start Metal Halide Retrofit ENERGY STAR CFL Fixtures Refrigerator Freezer Case LEDs ENERGY STAR LED Lamps and Fixtures Stairwell Fixtures with Integral Occupancy Sensor Residential Load Management C/I Motors C/I Refrigeration Anti-Sweat Heat Control Beverage Machine Controls

ENERGY STAR Refrigerator and Freezer Evaporator Fan Motor Retrofit

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ESP Users

• All MN utilities use ReportingESP

• Coops and Municipals

• Annual performance reporting and plans on June 1 (this year due

dates were June 13 and September 5)

• Investor-owned utilities

• Annual performance reporting on April 1 and May 1

• Three-year plans filed on June 1 (staggered)

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ESP Users

• Use of ESP (operations) is voluntary

• Currently working with 40+ MN utilities

• Partnerships with engineering firms for Smart

Measure/Program development

• Strong national interest from utilities and Commissions

• Contract signed with 18 utilities

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ESP Users

• ESP adoption process

• Training events

• Utility-specific outreach and support

• Energy Platforms contacts

• Leo Steidel, CEO lsteidel@energyplatforms.com

• Mike Myser, VP mmyser@energyplatforms.com

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Great River Energy

• Not for profit generation & transmission cooperative

• Provide wholesale electricity to 28 distribution cooperatives in MN (& into WI)

• Second largest utility in Minnesota, our member cooperatives distribute electricity to families, farms and businesses servings almost 1.7 million people.

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GRE CIP System

• Developed internally in 2007, rolled out for cooperative

use in 2008.

• Subsequent developments focused on providing:

• Online forms (Lighting)

• Dynamic residential forms – Batch processing monthly

residential rebates

• Dashboards that provide YTD achievements

• IT supported, Microsoft Access Architecture

• Interfaces with Finance department for invoicing

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GRE Aggregation Role

• Develops program guidelines

• Provides a centralized system for data collection and

reporting purposes to all members

• Administers the All-Requirements Member rebate

budget

• Tracks load management and supply side

expenditures and impacts

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GRE CIP System Business Assessment

Tolerate

Implement

Manage

Eliminate

• Evaluating the costs and

performance of the current system

• Assess the benefit of moving to a new

system (outside of GRE)

• Identify any capital projects that could

improve functionality

• Increase administrative capabilities of

Member Services

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CIP System Interactions

System

(Energy Savings & Spending by Cooperative)

Distribution Cooperative

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Member Services

& Marketing

IT

Finance

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Key CIP System Functions

Energy Savings Calculations

Forms Invoice

Generation

Data Capture Budgeting &

Reporting

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Increasing use of ESP

• Reporting ESP vs. Operational ESP

• Data has been entered into ESP going back to 2008

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GRE Implementation

• Developing basic program designs

• Translating existing program guide

• Smart Measures

• Developing teams & sub-teams

• Pilot program with two cooperatives

• Identify & resolve issues

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Implementation Challenges

• Terminology differences

• Connections to other departments

• Same look & feel

• Add additional functionality as people gain experience and

comfort with the platform

• Testing with a “fake” cooperative

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Expectations of the Project

• Enabling best practices around data sharing

• Developing a culture around data sharing

• Load shapes associated with program designs

• Re-orienting around a data-centric program

• External party innovation

• Generating a functional program based on third party

expertise – available for all

• GDS | Agricultural Program

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Program Innovation

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Future ESP Development

• Meet the users needs and expand functionality

• Operational functionality

• Batch processing of rebate activities

• Increasing the online availability of tools

• Management functionality

• One stop for all CIP data needs

• Cost-Effectiveness & BCA

• Simple payback, NPV

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Future Development

• Near term/ongoing (through end of 2014)

• Reporting

• Reporting, analytic enhancements

• Emissions tracking

• Public interface

• Operational

• Batch processing

• Ad hoc reporting/dashboard

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Future Development

• Longer term

• ESP to ReportingESP link

• Cost-benefit calculator (Operations)

• Planning tools (Operations)

• Measure lifecycle (Operations)

• Utility advisory committee

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Funding

• Development funded through public (State of MN-

CARD and Technical Assistance) and private sources

to date

• State contract ends September 2014

• Maintenance funding through Technical Assistance

assessments through June 2017

• Additional development supported through new

business

Joe Plummer | MN Department of Commerce

joe.plummer@state.mn.us

Jeff Haase | Great River Energy

jhaase@grenergy.com

Question & Answer

Webinar Link:

http://www.mncee.org/Innovation-Exchange/Resource-Center/

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