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Fort Collins Utilities Local Renewable Energy Story

Fort Collins Utilities Local Renewable Energy Story. John Phelan P.E. Energy Services Manager. Fort Collins Utilities provides electricity, water, wastewater, stormwater and financing services Citizen-owned, electric utility established 1935, ~68,000 customers

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Fort Collins Utilities Local Renewable Energy Story

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  1. Fort Collins Utilities Local Renewable Energy Story John Phelan P.E. Energy Services Manager

  2. Fort Collins Utilities provides electricity, water, wastewater, stormwater and financing services Citizen-owned, electric utility established 1935, ~68,000 customers Highly educated, environmentally aware customers Fort Collins Utilities

  3. Drivers for Renewable Energy • Climate and energy policies • City and utility leadership • Community support • Colorado standard requirements

  4. Community Action • Local Activism Leading to: • 1998 Wind project and ongoing green power program • Net metering in 2005 and solar rebates in 2008 • Policy shift from RECs to bundled wind energy • 2013 Council funding authorization adding local solar feed-in tariff and community solar

  5. Fort Collins Solar Programs • Solar rebates • Traditional $ per watt, residential and commercial allocations • Solar Power Purchase Program (SP3) • Feed-in tariff model • Community Solar (“garden”) • Meeting expanded customer interest

  6. Next Generation Solar Initiatives • Low income – support for solar “Habitat home” approach • Utility scale PV partnerships • Addressing “soft costs” • On-premise equipment ownership (e.g. utility control inverters)

  7. Fundamentals – Along the Way • Net metering • Policies, billing and business processes • Interconnection, inspection and check out • Buy-sell arrangements to align with contractual obligations • Purchased power agreements • Advanced metering • Rebates impact on marketplace

  8. Fundamentals – Looking Ahead • National discussions • Utility business models • Reduced sales through efficiency and solar • “end of utilities as know it…” • Narrow focus on solar does not tell the whole story • Predictable outcomes and arguments regarding who pays and who benefits

  9. Fundamentals – A Middle Path?

  10. Fundamentals – A Middle Path? • Potential rate principles • DOE Sunshot • Revenue decoupling • “Bare minimum” fixed cost contributions • Time differentiated rates for all • Rocky Mountain Institute

  11. Fundamentals – A Middle Path?

  12. ThanksJohn Phelan jphelan@fcgov.com • Rocky Mountain Institute, eLab • www.rmi.org/elab • Department of Energy Sunshot • Search “doe sunshotrethinking”

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