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NASEO Energy Policy Outlook

Conference

Weatherization & Intergovernmental

Programs Office

February 2015

AnnaMaria Garcia

Program Director

Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy eere.energy.gov

Weatherization & Intergovernmental Programs Office

Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP): State/local agencies carry out residential energy retrofits in low–income residences that reduce energy consumption while concurrently reducing energy costs for these families.

State Energy Program (SEP): State-led energy programs serve as an important foundation for reducing energy use and costs, increasing renewable energy generation, and building energy resiliency.

Policy & Technical Assistance Team (P&TA): Assists in developing tools and solutions to barriers facing state and local government expansion of energy efficiency policies and programs and replicating successful efforts demonstrated by public sector leaders.

WIP is part of EERE’s balanced research, development, demonstration, and deployment(RDD&D) approach to accelerate America’s transition to a clean energy economy.


American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in Summary

The figures below represent the most updated sums for the entire Recovery Act period through December 30, 2014; Data is subject to change daily, even after the reporting period ends. 1.4 million homes weatherized is the product of WAP Recovery Act and Annual funds, LIHEAP, SERC, and WIPP funds.

190,000 BUILDINGS

RETROFITTED(1.4B square

feet)

40,000RENEWABLE

ENERGY SYSTEMS

INSTALLED(850,000 kW)

300,000ENERGY

EFFICIENTTRAFFIC SIGNALS

INSTALLED

200,000ENERGY

EFFICIENTSTREET LIGHTS

INSTALLED

1.4 MILLION (800 M ARRA)SINGLE AND

MULTI-FAMILY HOMES

WEATHERIZED

1,000,000TRAINED TO

PERFORM AUDITS,

RETROFITS, ETC.


WIP Budget: 2015, 2016

Programs and SubprogramsFY 2015

Enacted

FY 2016

Request

Weatherization Assistance Grants 190,000 224,399

Training and Technical Assistance 3,000 4,000

Total, Weatherization Assistance Program 193,000 228,399

State Energy Program 50,000 70,100

Local Energy Program 0 20,000

Total, Weatherization and

Intergovernmental Programs 243,000 318,499

Dollars in Thousands


WIP Update:SEP FY 2015 Funding

FY 2015 Formula Grants

• Requirements Document and Application Package planned release date is end of

February 2015

• Allocations table will be based on $39M.

FY 2015 Competitive Awards

• FOA issued January 20, 2015; Informational webinar occurred January 27, 2015.

• Applications due March 31, 2015; Expected selections notification date July 2015.

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Area of Interest

FOA Funding

Range

($)

Number of

Projects

Award

Duration

1: State Energy

Planning

200,000 - 300,000 state

specific; 300,000-500,000

multi-state (up to 3);

$800,000 multi-state (4+)

Up to 9 2 years

2: Opportunities for

Innovative EE & RE

100,000 - 300,000 state

specific; 300,000-500,000

multi-state (up to 3);

$800,000 multi-state (4+)

Up to 12 2 to 3 years

Totals $5,000,000 Up to 21 2-3

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WIP Update:

FY 2014 SEP Competitive Selected Projects

NE

OK

INUT

OR

CANV

ID

MT

AZ

WY

CO

NM

TX

ND

SD

KS MO

AR

LA

MI

IL

KY

TN

MS ALGA

FL

OH

WV

VA

NC

SC

PA

NY

ME

DC

NH

HI

DEMD

WV

VT (2)

AS

PR

GU

VIMP

CT

MA

RI

NJ

AK

Area 2

5 Area 1

10

WI

IA

MI

WA

By Topic Area:

B&D 5, ESPC 2,

EMV 2, DR 1

State Energy Planning

Opportunities for Innovative

EE and RE Practices

MN

1 Both Areas


WIP Update:FY14 SEP Competitive Awards

AreaNo. of

Awards

Funding

Levels

1 5 $1.78 M

2 10 $3.18 M

Total 15 $4.96 M

SEP FY14 Competitive AwardsArea 1: State Energy PlanningBolster state/regional energy planning by facilitating stakeholder and interagency activities to plan for the future direction of the energy sector in the region/state , including energy efficiency and renewable energy, and focusing on the electric power sector and natural gas supply/transport. Awardees: ID, IL, MI, MN, SC

Area 2:Opportunities for Innovative Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy PracticesAssist states in advancing residential, commercial and/or industrial markets for energy efficiency and renewable energy through a set of policy and regulatory actions within three transformative categories: (1) developing or expanding utility-related programs; (2) working with local governments; (3) developing or designing financing programs, EM&V strategies, or benchmarking & disclosure programs. Awardees: AL, AR, KY, MN, NM, TX, VT (2), VA, WA


Energy Plans: Integrated energy , air quality and economic development plans/roadmaps in 3 key geographic regions – Southeast, Midwest and West, covering 12 states

Financing Models: Expansion of ESPC in underserved states and/or sectors in 2 states (NM, MN)

DER Interconnection Streamlining: A model for modernized, streamlined & transparent interconnection in 1 Northeast state (VT) tested in 100 MW of small renewable and combined heat and power in the next 2-4 years.

Benchmarking & Disclosure Policies: Expansion of building energy performance benchmarking and disclosure policies in 8 states in 3 regions: Northeast (VT,NH), Southeast (AL,AR) and West (WA,OR,CA, and TX)

Evaluation, Measurement & Verification: Development and testing of an EM&V framework in 3 states in the Southeast (VA, KY, GA)

WIP Update: Outcomes/Impacts of SEP FY14 Competitive Awards


SEP Update: ARRA Funded Financing

Programs, January 2015

$25m+ 7 States

$15-25m 9 States

Final ARRA Funding Amounts

$5-15m 12 States

<$5 10 States 2 Terr

None 16 StatesAS GU MP VI PR


Sector Breakout RLF Loans Given (#) RLF Loans Given ($)

Agricultural 34 1,809,748

Commercial 236 97,866,760

Industrial 89 104,854,128

Institutional 24 27,357,129

Public 1,143 254,987,982

Residential 3,205 49,854,542

Transportation 2 2,817,430

Total 4,733 539,547,719

WIP Update: SEP State Revolving Loan Fund Programs, January 2015

• $555 million of available funds in 40 state-run RLF Programs

• 97% of available RLF funds have been loaned out to date

Table data is based on state reporting.


• FY 2015 Formula Grants

– Program Guidance, Allocations Table and Application Package issued to grantees on January 16, 2015.

– $188.8M for PY 2015 formula grants and $3M for Training and Technical Assistance.

• Health and Safety

– Working Group to review policies and procedures related to how grantees and subgrantees implement requirements (last web-based discussion in late January).

– Calls will continue every 3-4 weeks .

– NASEO invited to participate in the Working Group.

• WAP Quality Work Plan

– Quality Control Inspector certifications are continuing; to date >400 staff received professional certifications.

– By beginning of PY 2015, all production being reported is to be inspected by a certified QCI.

WIP Update: Weatherization Assistance Program


WIP Update: Status of National Evaluations

SEP

• The SEP Evaluation is looking at FY 2008 and ARRA, driven by a sample of common efforts across all grantees rather than each grantee’s specific activities.

• Peer Review panel submitted comments end of January.

• SEP Evaluation is expected to be issued mid-spring 2015.

WAP

• The WAP Evaluation consists of two summary reports (one retrospective, one ARRA) and 40 sub-reports.

• Both reports and sub-reports will be available to the public early spring 2015.

EECBG

• ORNL, through its sub-contractor KEMA, completed surveys with EECBG grantees.

• The gross savings analysis began on June 23, 2014.

• The delivery date for the final report will be late spring 2015.

Better Buildings

Challenge:

Local Update

Goals: Make commercial, industrial buildings & multifamily

housing 20%+ more efficient over 10 years. Save $80B+ annually for U.S. organizations after 10 years. Create American jobs, improve energy security, and

mitigate impacts of climate change.

Outcomes to date: More than 190 partner organizations

representing >3B square feet acrossthe public and private sector.

47 State and Local Partners. 2.5% Annual Energy ($100M)

Savings to date for Commercial,Education, Industrial, Multi-family, and State &Local Partners.

Better Buildings Challenge Update

Public Sector Partners

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BBC Local Partners by State (January 2015)

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California Hall County, GA New York Fort Worth, TX

Chula Vista, CA Hawaii Huntington, NY Houston, TX

Los Angeles, CA Kauai County, HI Rochester, NY Virginia

Placer County, CA Illinois Ohio Arlington County, VA

Sacramento, CA Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Roanoke, VA

San Diego, CA Will County, IL Toledo, OH Washington

Colorado Massachusetts Oregon King County, WA

Arvada, CO Boston, MA Beaverton, OR Kitsap County, WA

Denver, CO Medford, MA Hillsboro, OR Seattle, WA

Washington, D.C. Worcester, MA Pennsylvania Thurston County, WA

Florida Missouri Philadelphia, PA Spokane County, WA

Margate, FL Columbia, MO Pittsburgh, PA Wisconsin

Orlando, FL New Mexico Tennessee Milwaukee, WI

West Palm Beach, FL Santa Fe, NM Knoxville, TN Wyoming

Georgia Nevada Texas Gillette, WY

Atlanta, GA Clark County, NV El Paso, TX

More than 70 Partners and Allies have joined since Spring 2014

BBC: Impressive Progress

Portfolio-wide Energy Savings (Top four energy-saving partners to date)

Roanoke, VA (16%)

Beaverton, OR (15%)

State of Delaware (13%)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts (11%)

Community-wide Impact

In Fort Worth:

In Atlanta:

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Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC)

Accelerator: Program Structure

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Streamlining the ESPC Process

Shortened Transaction Costs

Model ESPC Documents

Empowering the Market

Standardizing Project Results

Reporting

Feedback Sessions on eProject Builder

Individual Barrier Resolution

Resolving 1 barrier to ESPC Investment

over 18-month period

Working Groups Underway

The ESPC Accelerator aims to catalyze public-sector energy efficiency investments of $2 billion from January 2013 to December 2016 through the use of innovative and best-practice approaches to enhance ESPC programs.

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$10 - 20M $5 - 9M <$5M

ESPC Partners as of January 2015:

$1.7 Billion Commitment

Partner Progress to Date:

• 21 Partners• Total Dollars Invested: $721 Million• Investment Achieved: 43%

High Performance Outdoor Lighting Accelerator

(HPOLA)

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Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC)

Lighting Energy Efficiency and Parking (LEEP) Campaign

ARRA – State Energy Program (SEP) and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG)

HPOLAOpportunityProvide state and local governments with tools and framework to enable broad deployment of energy efficient street and outdoor lighting systems upgrades.

Potential Savings*• Streetlight luminaires used 452 tBtu of energy in 2012. • High efficiency technologies currently saving 3.5 tBtu per

year.• Switching to high efficiency street lighting saves 238 tBtu

per year, a potential energy cost savings of $2.3 billion.

Goal• Replace > 500,000 poles in next two years. • Collaborate with municipalities to demonstrate best

practices for the adoption of high-efficiency outdoor lighting.

• Improve system-wide replacement processes for outdoor lighting.

Outcomes• Collaborative solution for financial, regulatory, and

technical barriers that constrain broad technology deployment.

• Increased installation of high performance street and outdoor lighting systems above baselines.

* 2010 U.S. Lighting Inventory; Adoption of Light-Emitting Diodes in Common Lighting

Applications, Navigant, Revised May 2013.

1 stateRhode Island

3 regional energy networksMid-America Regional Council

(Kansas City metro);

Southeast Michigan Regional Energy

Office (Detroit metro);

Southern California Regional Energy

Network (Los Angeles metro)

10 citiesDearborn, MI

Detroit, MI

Flint, MI

Huntington Beach, CA

Little Rock, AR

Los Angeles, CA

Portland, ME

San Diego, CA

St. Petersburg, FL

West Palm Beach, FL

Current HPOLA Partners


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Extra Slides


Energy Plans

• Integrated energy , air quality and economic development plans/roadmaps in 3 key geographic regions – Southeast, Midwest and West

– Models from states explicitly working together at the nexus of these critical issues

– New options for utility frameworks and business models in the Midwest (MI, IL)

– Use of energy efficiency to achieve environmental goals and management of distributed energy resources in a shared utility region in the Southeast (SC, NC)

– A roadmap for 8 Western states and 1 Canadian Province outlining pathways for greater energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment in the region to meet reliability, resiliency and environmental regulatory objectives (ID, CA, CO ,MT, NV, OR, UT, WA)

Financing Models

• Expansion of ESPC in underserved states and/or sectors in 2 states (NM, MN)

– Create 1st ever ESPC program in NM for local governments resulting in 4.25 M sq. ft. of public buildings and savings of $3.3 M

– Statewide wastewater energy efficiency/distributed energy resources program using ESPC and PACE methods to reduce 5 M Kwh/year, DER at 2-5 sites with anaerobic digesters, and use of DG

DER Interconnection Streamlining

• Modernized, streamlined and transparent interconnection in 1 Northeast state (VT) tested in 100 MW of small renewable and combined heat and power in the next 2-4 years.



Benchmarking & Disclosure Policies

• Expansion of building energy performance benchmarking and disclosure policies in 8 states in 3 regions: Northeast (VT,NH), Southeast (AL,AR) and West (WA,OR,CA, and TX)

– Mandatory benchmarking in WA, OR and CA for all commercial and multi-family buildings >10,000 sq. ft. with potential savings of 82 TBTUs/year in 2028 and 6.5 MMT of carbon/year

– Creation of benchmarking and disclosure programs in up to 6 Texas cities with potential reductions of 34 TBTUs of energy over a 3 year period.

– Development of a Home Energy Score label and implementation in 2 Southeast states (AL, AR) in 1500 homes resulting in 450 retrofits in 2 years; estimate a 450 percent increase in homes labeled and associated retrofits by 2020 in both states.

– Potential mandatory disclosure program for one or more building sectors in VT; a 1st time voluntary benchmarking program in NH; also potential for regulatory change to provide access to aggregated utility data to multi-family residents in NH.

Evaluation, Measurement & Verification

• Development and testing of an EM&V framework in 3 states in the Southeast (VA, KY, GA)

– An EM&V framework and efficiency-to-carbon translation methodology using Uniform Methods protocols for EE DSM programs through 2020 resulting in capture of an estimated 6.0 MMt of CO2 (KY)

– An approach on ESPC projects using IPMVP as a basis, including calculation of avoided CO2

emissions (VA, KY, GA)



• SEP ARRA funding has significantly scaled up sustainable loan programs for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in 40 states.

• RLFs enable states and territories and their partners to use an initial capital fund to offer long-term, low-interest financing, ranging from residential and commercial building retrofits to job creation and industrial efficiency.

• Several State Energy Offices have RLF programs that serve as examples of best practices, including:

– Texas LoanStar– Nebraska’s Dollar and Energy Saving Loan

Program– Alabama SAVES Program– Montana’s Alternate Energy Revolving Loan

Program– Georgia’s Green Communities RLF Program

State RLFs: A Success Story

SNAPSHOT SUCCESSTexas LoanSTAR (Saving Taxes and Resources)

Program: January 2015

• Program Administrator: Texas State Energy Conservation Office

• Total SEP Investment: $72.3 M

• Number of Loans Made: 16

• Amount of Loans Made: $72.7 M (101%)

Largest state-run building energy efficiency program in the country, having funded more than 200 loans totaling more than $150 million.

Issues loans targeted for public buildings, including state agencies, school districts, higher education, local governments and hospitals.

Three different types of borrower-vendor contracting mechanisms are approved for LoanSTAR: traditional design/bid/build; traditional design/build retrofits; and ESPCs.