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SPL’s Smart Solar. [ Team Victorious Secret] Eunhee Kim Maria Tan Lauren Iacobucci Theodore Groben Tristan Turner. Springfield Power & Light. SPL’s Goals. Solar carve-out of 4% of retail electric sales Focus on commercial buildings Greater than or equal to 50kW installments
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SPL’s Smart Solar [Team Victorious Secret] Eunhee Kim Maria Tan Lauren Iacobucci Theodore Groben Tristan Turner Springfield Power & Light
SPL’s Goals • Solar carve-out of 4% of retail electric sales • Focus on commercial buildings • Greater than or equal to 50kW installments • Cost-effective, sustainable, scalable, reliable
Development Strategies Smart Grid Technologies Phase-In Approach • Utility-Pole Mounted Solar • Commercial Rooftop Mounted Solar • Streetlight Mounted Solar • SPL's energy database system
Development Strategies Cont. • Solar Acquisition Strategies • Solar Loan Program • Rooftop Rental • Pole-top & Street light Mount Project
Storage Centralized Decentralized
Financing • 50% Debt • Long term bonds • 50% Equity • Issuance of common stock
Implementation (Sources of Funds) • Public Benefit Fund and Rate Base Change • 5% increase to rate base • Avoided Peak Energy Costs • Solar Loan Program • 13% interest rate
Strategies to Reduce Soft Costs • Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics by US DOE SunShot Initiative. • Permitting, Inspection, and Interconnection (PII) • Installation Labor • Reduced PII Costs • Reduced labor costs • Safety Training
Marketing Strategies • Adapted from ―Smart Solar Marketing Strategies‖ by Clean Energy Group and SmartPower, 2009, p. 23
Conclusion Conclusion Cost-effective Sustainable Scalable Reliable