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Protecting the Midwests Environment and Natural Heritage Distributed G d Gene neratio ion P n Procu curement nt Bac ackground nd and and Pr Princ incip iples es Pres esentation t to t the I e IPA DG W DG Works kshop June


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Protecting the Midwest’s Environment and Natural Heritage

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Distributed G d Gene neratio ion P n Procu curement nt

Bac ackground nd and and Pr Princ incip iples es

Pres esentation t to t the I e IPA DG W DG Works kshop June 12, 12, 2014 2014

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The The Illi Illinois R RPS – A mo moving t tar arget…

  • RPS adopted in 2007
  • Extended to ARES in 2008
  • Solar carve-out added in 2009 (SB2150)
  • Solar “ramp-up” added in 2010 (HB 6202)
  • DG carve-out added in 2011 (SB1652)
  • Municipal aggregation took off in 2013.
  • NO DG

DG PRO ROCUREMENTS HA HAVE TAKEN P PLACE.

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So Solar an and d DG Requirements

  • The solar and DG carve-outs are overlapping,

but independent requirements.

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Year Overall RPS Solar %

  • f RPS

DG %

  • f RPS

2014 9.0% 3% 0.75% 2015 10.0% 6% 1.0% 2016 11.5% 6% 1.0% 2017 13.0% 6% 1.0% 2018 14.5% 6% 1.0%

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No Pr Progress on D DG

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  • We’ve made some progress towards the

solar goal, but none towards the DG goal.

Solar REC goal Solar RECs already purchased % of Solar Goal Met DG REC Goal DG RECs already purchased % of DG Goal Met

2014 249,000 37,000 15% 83,000 0% 2015 468,000 38,000 8% 78,000 0% 2016 532,000 40,000 8% 88,000 0% 2017 597,000 34,000 6% 99,000 0% 2018 661,000 31,000 5% 110,000 0%

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DG kil ills t two wo bir irds wit with o

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DG al also so h has as sig significant b benefits

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Bu But t traditional c compe mpetitive pr procurements do don’t wo work f for DG.

  • Customer acquisition “chicken & egg”
  • More projects = more transaction costs
  • Smaller stakes, less payoff per project.
  • Costs and complexity of participating in

an auction are high.

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IPA PA h held wo workshops in in 2012 to addr address these c challe lenges.

  • Takeaways:

– Transparency of goals and budget is critical – Keep it simple. – Keep transaction costs low. – Be flexible with aggregation requirements. – Acknowledge market segment differences. – Look to best practices in other states.

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IPA PA’s pr propo posal f from 2 2012

  • Hybrid program modeled on Connecticut

“ZREC” program:

– Competitive procurement for larger systems – “Standard offer” for smaller generators. – “Standard offer” price derived from competitive procurement using “scaler.”

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