Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth Leading by Example Council Meeting September 12, 2017
Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • National and Commonwealth Updates • Policy Updates • Guest Speaker: PowerOptions Small-System Solar Program • Vehicle Updates • LBE Emissions and Energy Data and Tracking • LBE Updates • Site Solar Tour Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
MassDOT-Highway: Research & Materials Facility Renewable Energy and Conservation Efforts
Hopkinton
Lab & Office Space
Solar Canopies and Roof Top • Approached by Project Manager in Spring of 2016 to consider PV system to ensure LEED Silver Target is met and potentially hit Gold LEED status. • Contract in place with Ameresco, of Framingham in December 2016. • Install approximately 490 kW of Canopy-PV and 50 kW of rooftop. • The canopy portion was awarded a $245,000 Grant from DOER. The funds should allow us to pay for the charging stations and reduce the PPA by approximately $0.01/kWh. • Construction started in late Fall 2016 and met the 50% expenditure by 1/8/2017, and the mechanically complete by 5/8/2017, milestones to fall under the SREC-II Emergency Regulation. • Expect system testing and commissioning later this month or early October.
Other MassDOT- Highway “ Green ” Initiatives: • This Hopkinton site, once commissioned, will increase our total PV – Partnering Efforts to about 4.4 mW. • We are in the process of constructing a District Office in Worcester that will have integrated PV and is designed to be a ZNE facility. • We expect to develop more solar canopies at about a dozen Park & Rides under SMART. Potential for another 5-6 mW • Nearing completion of 120 +/- upgrades to our statewide depots under AEP. Estimated annual savings of approximately $185,000. (20% reduction of 50,000 kWh annual demand, $0.15/kWh) • Installing six (6), 50 kW EV Fast Charges at various I-90 Service Plazas. Three operational, three more operational within 4-8 weeks.
National and Commonwealth Updates Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
What Do You Think this Is? Hint: These are 5 Solar PV interval meters in MA The 2017 Solar eclipse! Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
National Renewables Progress In March, and again in April, U.S. monthly electricity generation from utility-scale renewable sources exceeded nuclear generation for the first Source: EIA, 2017 time since July 1984 Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
Solar and Wind Growth Exceeding Expectations Globally Growth in PV capacity and scenario projections Source: Nature Energy, 2017 Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
EPA Air Trends Report Source: EPA, 2017 Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
EPA Air Trends Report Source: EPA, 2017 Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
Harvey and Hospital Resiliency • Flooding limited vehicle passage and ability to evacuate patients from Houston hospital o Originally planned to move all 350 patients o Then, new plan was move 80 of the sickest patients due to high waters o Then, only 5 ambulances Source: Washington Post could reach the building to move patients to other hospitals 2 ended up turning back In response to tropical storm Allison in 2001, emergency generators from multiple hospitals were moved up from basement – improving resiliency Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
Coastal Resilience Grant Projects • EEA awarded $2.2M in grants awarded to 16 coastal communities to prepare for climate change (EEA press release, August 2017) Dennis - $133,300 Duxbury Beach Eastham - $79,676 Essex - $71,450 • Project: Improving the Coastal Reservation, Inc. - • Project: Assessment of Multi- • Project: Improving Coastal Hazard Resiliency of Dr. Bottero Road and $36,340 decadal Coastal Change - Eastham Management along the North Chapin Beach - Coastal Structure to Wellfleet Shore - Integrating Science, and Beach Nourishment Design • Project: Duxbury Beach Dune Outreach and Education to and MA Environmental Policy Act Restoration Project Increase Ecosystem and Compliance Community Resiliency Falmouth - $124,695 Gloucester - $97,500 Kingston - $497,725 Marshfield - $36,000 • Project: Assessment of Shoreline • Project: Gloucester Pump •Project: Gray’s Beach Park • Project: Feasibility Assessment Stabilization Alternatives for Stations - Floodproofing Redesign Coastal Restoration, Retreat and and Design for Beach and Dune Menauhant Beach and Retrofit Site Improvement Project Enhancement through Beneficial Reuse of Dredged Materials from Green Harbor Mattapoisett - $67,800 New Bedford - Northeastern Univ. Salem - $11,250 $153,045 $202,950 • Project: Addressing • Project: Salem Collins Cove Mattapoisett’s Potable Water Bioengineering with Coir Rolls and • Project: West Rodney French • Project: Enhancement and Infrastructure Vulnerabilities at Sea Grass Plantings Boulevard Beach Nourishment - Stabilization of Natural Cobble the Pease’s Point Water Main Engineering and Permitting Shoreline at Canoe Beach Crossing Scituate - $210,000 Wareham - $101,100 Weymouth - $397,500 Winthrop - $77,550 • Project: Engineering and • Project: Coastal Resilience • Project: Puritan Road Flood • Project: Coughlin Park Green Environmental Permitting for Improvements - Final Design for 3 Mitigation and Ecological Infrastructure Project - Design Roadway Elevation Improvements Priority Pump Stations Resilience - Construction and Permitting and Dune Nourishment along Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth North Humarock Beach for Improved Coastal Resiliency
Policy Updates Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
SMART (Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target) Program Changes • Final regulation published in state register on August 25, 2017 • Number of key changes made 100 MW Procurement (to establish base compensation rate): • Each distribution company will issue individual procurement for 1-5 MW (collectively procuring 100 MW statewide) • Ceiling price raised to $0.17/kWh • Unique base compensation rates will be established for each individual distribution company (rather than single statewide rate) Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
SMART Program Changes (cont.) Compensation Rate Adder Caps and Rate of Decline: • Adder caps eliminated • Adders decline by 4% for every tranche of capacity determined by DOER (separate from base rate capacity blocks) First tranche of capacity for each adder is 80 MW Future tranche sizes to be determined by DOER as they are filled Project Segmentation • Canopies can be sited on same parcel as building-mounted solar • Generation units can span multiple parcels if located behind a single interconnection point, single meter and sized 5 MW or less • Added process that allows DOER to provide exceptions to segmentation rules for good cause on case by case basis Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
SMART Program Changes (cont.) Other • Added definition and special provisions for floating solar , with an associated $0.03/kWh adder • Added language prohibiting capacity expansions, with specific exceptions • Modified formula for calculating the incentive payments for behind-the-meter generation units: 𝐶𝑓ℎ𝑗𝑜𝑒 𝑢ℎ𝑓 𝑁𝑓𝑢𝑓𝑠 𝑇𝑝𝑚𝑏𝑠 𝑈𝑏𝑠𝑗𝑔𝑔 𝐻𝑓𝑜𝑓𝑠𝑏𝑢𝑗𝑝𝑜 𝑉𝑜𝑗𝑢 𝐷𝑝𝑛𝑞𝑓𝑜𝑡𝑏𝑢𝑗𝑝𝑜 𝑆𝑏𝑢𝑓 = 𝐷𝑏𝑞𝑏𝑑𝑗𝑢𝑧 𝐶𝑏𝑡𝑓𝑒 𝑆𝑏𝑢𝑓 + 𝐵𝑒𝑒𝑓𝑠𝑡 − (𝑑𝑣𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑢 𝐸𝑗𝑡𝑢𝑠𝑗𝑐𝑣𝑢𝑗𝑝𝑜 𝑠𝑏𝑢𝑓 + 𝑑𝑣𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑢 𝑈𝑠𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑛𝑗𝑡𝑡𝑗𝑝𝑜 𝑠𝑏𝑢𝑓 + 𝑑𝑣𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑢 𝑈𝑠𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑗𝑢𝑗𝑝𝑜 𝑠𝑏𝑢𝑓 + 𝑈ℎ𝑠𝑓𝑓 𝑧𝑓𝑏𝑠 𝑏𝑤𝑓𝑠𝑏𝑓 𝑝𝑔 𝐶𝑏𝑡𝑗𝑑 𝑇𝑓𝑠𝑤𝑗𝑑𝑓 𝑆𝑏𝑢𝑓) Creating A Clean, Affordable and Resilient Energy Future For the Commonwealth
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