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Travis SheehanEcoDistricts Energy [email protected]
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
