Travis Sheehan EcoDistricts Energy Fellow [email protected]

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

GridMod Proceedings Begin

DPU 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

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

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

Executive Order 13632

• 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

Why District Energy?

• 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

Model 1 Institution Buildings/ Streets

Why Not District Energy?

ESCO Physical Plant, Distribution Utility Rate Agreement Interconnection Single Building Owners Single Building Owners Single Building Owners Power Purchase, Bonding Authority, Franchise Exceptions ESCO Physical Plant, Distribution Model 2: Utility Rate Agreement Interconnection

Why District Energy?

Photo: http://yourtubenews.ning.com

Source: Back Bay Scotia Street Netowork Substation Incident, Forensic Engineering Report, RTI, June 2012

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?

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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

Hospital 1

Why District Energy?

Hospital 2 Hospital 3 Hospital 4 Hospital 5 Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners Longwood Medical Energy Collaborative (fmrly. “Harvard Medical Collaborative”) Power Purchase Agreement MATEP Veolia Energy North America

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

Source: Decentralised Energy Masterplanning, A Guide for Local Authorities (ARUP, online resource) http://www.londonheatmap.org.uk/Conte nt/uploaded/documents/EMP_Manual_lo.

pdf

Local Government’s Role

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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

Source: Power Play, A Heat Map of New York City, State of the Planet, The Earth Institute (Modi, et al.) http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/13/power-play-an-energy map-of-new-york-city/

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Cambridge Entitlement Process

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.

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Partnerships

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)