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Cook County

Cook County Community Solar Project

Deborah Stone, Chief Sustainability Officer

Establish models for community solar and ways to eliminate barriers to

implementation

What have you accomplished that might serve as a model to others?

• Capacity maps/analysis• Costing tool• Valuation• Stakeholder participation• Case Studies – to come

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Lessons Learned

• Right partners at the right time!

• Unique utility markets• Unique policy

frameworks• Importance of equity• Stakeholder

participation• Great stories

What did you learn from your fellow SMPers that you really put to use?

We solicited technical support and workshop participation to inform the development of of our Value Proposition Analysis

Involved Groups: Smart Electric Power Alliance, Pace Energy and Climate Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Regulatory Assistance Project, National Community Solar Partnership, AND MORE

What do you want the world to know about your project?

Community solar spreads benefits to all, regardless of income. #CookCounty pilots to show how #smpathways https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/solar-energy

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Extensible/CSVP

The Community Solar Value Project

•Led by Extensible Energy, w/ expertise of several additional firms

•Focused on utility-led community solar programs, using a variety of project ownership options and program innovations

•5 ways to “Make Community Solar Better,” i.e., strategic design, target marketing, procurement, pricing, & solar triple play

www.communitysolarvalueproject.com

1. Defined a successful solar business model for community solar that incorporates “solar plus” measures, including demand response and storage. Tools: DR Guide, Storage Guide, Industry Support Networks.

2. Defined a pragmatic process model, including a streamlined approach to the value of solar analysis, as it applies directly to pricing for utility community solar programs.

3. Guide to community solar market research, using market segmentation.

4. Case studies of utility best practices documented in a variety of media and available via our site: www.communitysolarvalueproject.com

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Accomplishments

1. The importance of internal stakeholder processes and cross-departmental engagement.

2. The importance of external stakeholder processes, which still require some innovation in the interest of getting to “go.”

3. Don’t be afraid to convene the smartest people you can find to crack tough technical nuts to move project forward.

Lessons Learned

1. Community solar specific: Fantastic SEPA-sponsored market research; NCSP networks; low/moderate income market innovations; site selection innovations from Cook County

2. Other approaches to lowering grid integration costs and instructive struggles with the value of solar

3. Specific case studies that extend beyond community solar, but build the case for solar as part of a DER portfolio

What We Take From You

CSVP: not all, but some answers on how to make the 21st C DER utility happen today. Utilities: call us. Policy folk: let’s talk. #smpathways

Short story

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Dominion

Virginia Solar Pathways Project

Rachel Snead, Project Manager

Project Goals: Statewide utility-administered solar strategy

Utility-administered community solar program

Assessment of Dominion’s solar programs

Technical studies to identify PV integration

Economic study of utility-administered solar

Create a solar workforce development strategy

Project Goals

Core Advisory Team

Project Accomplishments & 2017 Deliverables

Accomplishments Completed four studies:

Solar Integration Studies I & II by Navigant

Community Solar Study by SEPA Solar Economic Study by NREL

Virginia Solar Deployment Group Led to consensus framework

2017 Deliverables Community Solar Program Design

Virginia Solar Pathways Strategy

Solar Career Pathways Plan

Publication & Dissemination Plan

Public Information Session

Lessons Learned

Substantial technical information about solar’s potential impact on our grid is critical to developing long-term plans

Benefit of utilizing stakeholder engagement to create a consensus framework to move solar forward in Virginia

Importance of common understanding of energy industry technical & policy framework for project team

Utilize the talents of your core advisory team

SEPA Community Solar

Summary Findings:

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Dominion will be conducting input sessions to help design our

new Community Solar Program. Help us create a successful

Community Solar Program by joining us at one of our

stakeholder sessions throughout Virginia! #smpathways

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Keeping Pace With Solar Growth:

www.solarsimplified.org

APR 14

Good technical resources and smart policies have paved the way for solar market growth in Utah

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A Bright Future in Utah: #smpathways team propels Utah to 6th in the nation for installed solar

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CUNY

Resilient Solar ProjectDaniella Leifer, DG

Ombudsman/Project Manager

https://goo.gl/maps/tQ2KbtaAqko

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Project objective: reduce barriers & costs of Resilient Solar PV for

emergency/resiliency planning in NYC, and leverage results to NYS through

tools & educational resources.

Tools or approaches others can replicate, or adapt:• NYC Resilient Solar

Roadmap• Solar+Storage Fact

Sheets & Guides (Hardware Guide, Permitting Guide, Retrofit Guide, etc.): https://www.nysolarmap.com/resources/reports/solarplusstorage/

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Lessons Learned• Energy storage is cross-

cutting technology –renewable/clean, also backup/emergency, also financial saving tool for real estate mgmt.

• Significant concerns (fire safety, etc.) impacting permitting/codes, little formally established.

What did you learn from your fellow SMPers that you really put to use?

• Valuable info & lessons learned from Minnesota team Hartley Nature Ctr resilient PV retrofit project.

What do you want the world to know about your project?

CUNY Smart DG Hub Resilient Solar Project provides roadmap & market barrier solutions that enable rapid scale up of NYC ESS market #smpathways

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VEIC

Vermont Solar Pathways

20% of annual electricity

from solar by 2025

Damon LaneLead Analyst, VEIC

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Stakeholder engagement

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Scenario Modeling

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VPR: Remembering the ice storm of January 1998

VT has enviable relationships between utilities, regulators, legislature, advocates

Lars Gange & Mansfield Heliflight

VT has resiliency needs that could be

more prominent in solar planning

Vermont SMP tweets

•Buy one, get one free: 2x the renewable energy for the same price.

•VT can get 20% of electricity from solar by 2025 with no change total energy spending

•Don’t go solar alone, it’s better plus something! Solar+pollinators, +pasture, +community, +storage, +EV, +heat pump

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Pace/Northeast Solar Coalition

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ME, VT, NH,MA GREEN BANK REPORTS (UCS/MEISTER)

•VALUE OF SOLAR EDUCATION

•INTERCONNECTION STUDY (9 EDCS)

•SET UP WELL TO CARRY ON POST 2017

January 3rd, 2017

“Small Public Investment In Solar Could Produce Large Benefits For Vermont”

A Union of Concerned Scientists report says $7M of public investments to encourage solar installations would leverage $148M in private sector investments over 15 years.

LESSON #1

•FOCUS: TRIED NOT TO BE ALL THINGS;

FOCUSED ON “FOUR PILLARS”

•Value of Solar

•Interconnection Policy Harmony

•Permitting Harmony

•Green Banking

LESSON #2

“Nobody knew health care (solar) could be so

complicated.”(Unknown Author)

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