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Fort Collins Utilities
Local Renewable Energy Story
John Phelan P.E.
Energy Services Manager
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Fort Collins Utilities
• Fort Collins
Utilities provides
electricity, water,
wastewater,
stormwater and
financing services
• Citizen-owned,
electric utility
established 1935,
~68,000
customers
• Highly educated,
environmentally
aware customers
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Drivers for Renewable Energy
• Climate and energy
policies
• City and utility leadership
• Community support
• Colorado standard
requirements
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Community Action
Local Activism Leading to:
• 1998 Wind project and ongoing green power
program
• Net metering in 2005 and solar rebates in
2008
• Policy shift from RECs to bundled wind energy
• 2013 Council funding authorization adding
local solar feed-in tariff and community solar
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Community Cumulative Solar PV Capacity
(kilowatts)
1,800
1,600
1,400
1,200
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
2004
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2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Community Cumulative Solar PV Capacity
(kilowatts)
3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
2004
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2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Community Cumulative Solar PV Capacity
(kilowatts)
8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
2004
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2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Fort Collins Solar Programs
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Solar rebates
– Traditional $ per watt, residential and commercial
allocations
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Solar Power Purchase Program (SP3)
– Feed-in tariff model
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Community Solar (“garden”)
– Meeting expanded customer interest
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Next Generation Solar Initiatives
• Low income – support for solar “Habitat
home” approach
• Utility scale PV partnerships
• Addressing “soft costs”
• On-premise equipment ownership
(e.g. utility control inverters)
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Fundamentals – Along the Way
• Net metering
• Policies, billing and business
processes
• Interconnection, inspection and check out
• Buy-sell arrangements to align with
contractual obligations
• Purchased power agreements
• Advanced metering
• Rebates impact on marketplace
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Fundamentals – Looking Ahead
• National discussions
• Utility business models
• Reduced sales through efficiency and
solar
• “end of utilities as know it…”
• Narrow focus on solar does not tell the
whole story
• Predictable outcomes and arguments
regarding who pays and who benefits
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Fundamentals – A Middle Path?
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Fundamentals – A Middle Path?
• Potential rate principles
• DOE Sunshot
• Revenue decoupling
• “Bare minimum” fixed cost contributions
• Time differentiated rates for all
• Rocky Mountain Institute
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Fundamentals – A Middle Path?
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Thanks
John Phelan
[email protected]
• Rocky Mountain Institute, eLab
– www.rmi.org/elab
• Department of Energy Sunshot
– Search “doe sunshot rethinking”
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