Energy Assurance Planning: Integrating Resiliency and Sustainability

1. Energy Assurance Planning: Integrating Resiliency and Sustainability Larisa Dobriansky, 703 920 1377 Global Energy Network COG EAC 1/17/13 Larisa.dobriansky@gmail.com

2. Why Energy Assurance Planning? • Aging, Patchwork Infrastructure – More susceptible to outages and challenges to power quality • Significant socio-economic losses from power outages: Sandy, Derecho, 2003 Blackout, Irene and 2011 Northeastern Storm outages, etc. • “Energy and Environmental Convergence”: EPA Environmental Regulations, Increased Volumes of Variable Renewable Energy into Grid and Effects on Power Quality, Availability and Reliability • EAP: Understand energy requirements, risks and vulnerabilities and energy infrastructure interdependencies to meet the energy demand and maintain operations of critical facilities & essential functions during natural and man-made disasters and energy disruptions

3. EAP and Sustainability: Mutually Enhancing • Build energy surety and resiliency as bedrock for sustainability; Harness sustainability to mitigate impacts, diversify supplies, harden critical infrastructure, increase resiliency, stabilize energy costs and reduce reliance on fossil fuels • Better planning efforts: Integrate new clean energy portfolios (RE, biofuel, energy efficiency, etc.) and new applications (EV, Energy Storage, Smart Grid, Microgrid, Demand Response, etc.) into EAP and Emergency Preparedness Plans; Integrate tactical and strategic EAP methods, mechanisms and solutions into Sustainability Plans. (DC EAP/Vision) • Minimize impacts and costs; Reduce risks, uncertainties and vulnerabilities; Develop fuller potential, maximize outcomes and capture co-benefits • From design to development and delivery, through operation, repair and maintenance to replacement interrelate planning to develop more sustainable and resilient communities and critical infrastructure networks

4. Accelerating Benefits of Plans and Programs: New Disciplines EAP and Sustainability Planning: Integrated Energy Systems Capabilities and Solutions • Holistic, Dynamic and Systemic: Not technology, facility or sector “siloed” • Develop both Resilient and Sustainable “Eco-systems” and Critical Infrastructure Networks, not just project-oriented (DC SW Corridor Master Planning, Crystal City Master Planning) • Continuous Improvement (short, medium and long term) upon established “baselines” and benchmarks • “Systems Approach”: (1) Understand economic, environmental and equity impacts of embedded energy costs and operational energy needs of infrastructure systems and urbanization; (2) Assess economic, environmental and equity benefits of EA and SE Planning; (3) Understand and quantify the costs and benefits of alternative technologies, practices and development scenarios; and (4) Develop cost-effective decision support tools and methods for community/regional-based energy systems planning • Energy, Environmental, Infrastructure Interrelated Planning: (1) Incorporate energy supply and demand and infrastructure analyses of alternative energy assurance and resiliency, sustainability and resource development options into existing regional housing, land-use, water supply and wastewater, transportation, waste recycling and reuse and other municipal decision-making processes; (2) Combine strategically the siting and permitting of distributed energy resources and enabling technology applications with other infrastructure and public works in community development and redevelopment. • More Cost-Effective Outcomes: Better balancing of supply and demand; greater protection of critical infrastructure; orderly and capital efficient development of community-based renewable energy and energy efficiency resources; address technologies, tools and strategies for the integrated and “symbiotic” development and use of energy and other resources relating to all community functions and end uses

5. Opportunities for Change • Integrated SE and EA Planning: Enable city officials, development authorities, planners, utilities, energy service companies and other key stakeholders to structure and fund cost-effective energy and environment-related programs, measures, financing mechanisms and partnerships to overcome technical, institutional, financial and other barriers to sustainable and secure development • Maximize efficient use of energy resources across all end uses/Minimize direct and indirect adverse impacts: Improve overall performance and operational efficiency, while lowering costs and adverse impacts (Energy as a means for evaluating the interaction between energy using sectors) • Disciplines for Assessing, Managing and Optimizing Community Resources: Capitalize on technology advancements; promote integrated technical systems to expand use of local renewable and recyclable energy resources; build sustainable local and regional energy networks; secure underground distribution systems for critical facilities; develop supply and demand network control systems; establish technology-ready infrastructures; co-locate and “cluster” compatible uses and increase proximate loads; reduce urban footprint and minimize consumption of energy, material and natural resources; decentralize resource management; etc. • Crosswalks for Change: Assess Probability and Magnitude of Risk; Address both “Steady State” and Transient conditions and Contingencies, Understand Energy Dynamics to Manage and Optimize Energy Use • Tangible Benefits and Measureable Results for COG’s Agenda: CEEPC 2013 – 2016 Action Plan (Climate Mitigation and Adaption; Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment and Infrastructure; EV and Infrastructure Development; RE and EE; Distributed Energy: CCHP, District Energy, Energy Storage; Smart Grid, Sustainable Land Use Zoning and Development; Moving towards Zero Net Energy/Waste DC, MD, VA