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Travis Sheehan EcoDistricts Energy Fellow t ravis.sheehan@boston.gov

Travis Sheehan EcoDistricts Energy Fellow t ravis.sheehan@boston.gov. Community Energy. The BRA and Mayor’s Office of Environment, Energy and Open Spaces collaborate on district energy planning. GridMod Proceedings Begin. DPU Order Investigation 12-76 (10/2/2012)

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Travis Sheehan EcoDistricts Energy Fellow t ravis.sheehan@boston.gov

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  1. Travis Sheehan EcoDistricts Energy Fellow travis.sheehan@boston.gov

  2. Community Energy The BRA and Mayor’s Office of Environment, Energy and Open Spaces collaborate on district energy planning.

  3. GridMod Proceedings Begin • DPU Order Investigation 12-76 (10/2/2012) • To solicit from stakeholders that will guide Dept’s approach to grid modernization over the short, medium, and long term. “We will examine our policies to ensure that electric distribution companies adopt grid modernization technologies and practices in order to • enhance reliability of electric service, • reduce electricity costs, • and empower customers to adopt new electricity technologies and better manage their use of electricity http://www.env.state.ma.us/dpu/docs/electric/12-76/10212dpuvtord.pdf

  4. GridMod Proceedings Adapted from Presentation by Ben Davis, MA DPU. September 2013. “Grid Modernization in Massachusetts: The Role of Energy Efficiency”

  5. GridMod Straw Proposal • DPU 12-76-A (12/23/2013) • Two components: • Grid Modernization Plan 10 year strategic plan + CAMP (Comprehensive Advanced Metering Plan) • Strategy and general investment plan, implementation, potentially new rate structures • Misc topics including (1) TVR, (2) Cyber Security, privacy and access to meter data and (3) EV’s http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dpu/electric/grid-mod/d-p-u-12-76-a-12-23-2013.pdf

  6. Source: Gridling Global

  7. “Localized, networked water treatment systems improve access to potable water, encourage the development and diffusion of innovations through reduced financial and technical risks, lower the potential of total system failure, and provide easier trial and replacement of specific innovations and greater organizational capacity.” “Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment Systems: Opportunities for Innovation” Dr. Sarah Slaughter, The Solutions Journal, 2010

  8. Executive Order 13632 • In August 2013, the Federal Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force published a Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy • Highlighted CHP as a successful driver of climate preparedness • Recommendation 12: ensuring that Sandy recovery energy investments in critical infrastructure are resilient • Recommendation 14: encouraging Federal and State cooperation to improve electric grid policies and standards

  9. Why District Energy? • GHG Emissions Reduction • CHP • Renewables Plug in • Servicing base loads • Innovation • Plug-n-play for technology pilot acceleration • Climate Preparedness/Resilience • Islandable services for critical facilities, places of refuge and mission critical system for certain firms (life sciences, finance) • Critical services like evacuation route lighting, EOC’s, transit services • Economic Development • Burgeoning market of energy technology • Clean tech market segment • Localized labor and revenues from Energy Services

  10. Why Not District Energy? Model 1 Institution ESCO Utility Rate Agreement Buildings/ Streets Physical Plant, Distribution Interconnection Model 2: Single Building Owners Power Purchase, Bonding Authority, Franchise Exceptions Single Building Owners ESCO Utility Rate Agreement Physical Plant, Distribution Single Building Owners Interconnection

  11. Why District Energy? Photo: http://yourtubenews.ning.com Source: Back Bay Scotia Street Netowork Substation Incident, Forensic Engineering Report, RTI, June 2012

  12. Why District Energy? • Utilities • Implies market transformation • Backfeeding into electric distribution system • End Users • MUSH market vs aggregated group of end users • municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals  • Power Purchase agreements • Coordinated distribution infrastructure development • Business model • Asset and resale impacts • City Involvement not the norm

  13. Why District Energy?

  14. Where has it worked? • Seeded 1906 • Completed 1980 • 9 MSF • 103k inpatients , 2.4M outpatients • 46 MW total- (24 MW E, 22 MW Steam Driven) • 360,000 pounds of steam per hour

  15. Why District Energy? Hospital 1 Hospital 2 Hospital 5 Hospital 3 Hospital 4 Longwood Medical Energy Collaborative (fmrly. “Harvard Medical Collaborative”) • Power Purchase Agreement MATEP  Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners Veolia Energy North America

  16. Why District Energy? Portland Sustainability Institute. “District Energy Development Ownership and Governance Models.” March 2011. Accessed 6/10/2013. http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/349828

  17. Source: Decentralised Energy Masterplanning, A Guide for Local Authorities (ARUP, online resource) http://www.londonheatmap.org.uk/Content/uploaded/documents/EMP_Manual_lo.pdf

  18. Local Government’s Role Visioning for Boston • Trigeneration distribution infrastructure (cooling, heating and power) • Deepwater Cooling, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Wind • Local CHP • Sewerage heat loss recovery • Green Transit: Electric vehicle network, bikeshare • Green Infrastructure: Bioswales, constructed wetlands • Strategy • Citywide CHP/ District Energy study • Project Development • Pioneer investment/business model for distribution networks • Market transformation through collaboration and accountability with incumbent utilities and regulators

  19. Source: Power Play, A Heat Map of New York City, State of the Planet, The Earth Institute (Modi, et al.) http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/13/power-play-an-energy-map-of-new-york-city/

  20. Cambridge Entitlement Process • Found in Cambridge’s Zoning Ordinance Text of the City of Cambridge, MA • Under Chapter 13, Planned Unit Development Districts • 13.89.4 Sustainability- • A) Energy and Emissions; Steam. Each new building must conserve building energy and, to the extent applicable, reduce carbon/GHG emissions. The Developer, with each Development within the PUD-5 District, must evaluate the potential for on-site energy generation or the construction of co-generation facilities within the PUD-5 District that will serve the new building and other buildings located within the PUD-5 District. A Development Proposal for a commercial building shall include a study, prepared by the Developer, considering the feasibility of connecting the building identified in the Development Proposal to the existing district steam system. • K2-C2- Development proposals in the Osborn Triangle must include a study of the technical and cost feasibility of utilizing the district steam system to provide heating energy for new or existing buildings in the PUD.

  21. Partnerships • Working partners: • DOE:Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnerships (CHP TAPs) • Pace Law and Climate Center • International District Energy Association • Collaborators: • Department of Public Utilities (Regulators) • Department of Energy Resources (State Executive) • Mass Clean Energy Center (Quasi- rate payer funded)

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