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

Travis SheehanEcoDistricts Energy Fellowtravis.sheehan@boston.gov

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

Community Energy

GridMod Proceedings BeginDPU 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

GridMod Proceedings

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

GridMod Straw Proposal

http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dpu/electric/grid-mod/d-p-u-12-76-a-12-23-2013.pdf

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

Source: Gridling Global

“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

•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

Executive Order 13632

•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

Why District Energy?

Institution ESCO Utility

Rate Agreement

Model 1

Physical Plant, Distribution

Interconnection

Buildings/ Streets

Single Building Owners

ESCO Utility

Rate Agreement

Physical Plant, Distribution

Interconnection

Single Building Owners

Single Building Owners

Power Purchase,Bonding

Authority,Franchise

Exceptions

Model 2:

Why Not District Energy?

Why District Energy?

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

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

Why District Energy?

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

Why District Energy?

Longwood Medical Energy Collaborative (fmrly.

“Harvard Medical Collaborative”)

Hospital 1 Hospital 2 Hospital 3 Hospital 4 Hospital 5

MATEP

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure

Partners

Veolia Energy North America

Power Purchase Agreement

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

http://www.londonheatmap.org.uk/Content/uploaded/documents/EMP_Manual_lo.pdf

Source: Decentralised Energy Masterplanning, A Guide for Local Authorities (ARUP, online resource)

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

Local Government’s Role

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/13/power-play-an-energy-map-of-new-york-city/

Source: Power Play, A Heat Map of New York City, State of the Planet, The Earth Institute (Modi, et al.)

• 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.

Cambridge Entitlement Process

• 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)

Partnerships