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SMALL BUSI NESS DI RECT I NSTALL PROGRAMS

Presented by: Patrick Burns and Lynn Roy

F:\Marketing\PROPOSALS\NYSERDA\Presentation Slides 8‐30

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W HAT AND W HY? HOW ? DI D I T W ORK?

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NEXANT, I NC.

  • Energy Efficiency & Carbon

Managem ent ( EE&CM)

– Market Characterization – Market Potential Studies – DSM Program Planning, Design, Administration Implementation – Energy Auditing, Commissioning, Recommissioning, Energy Modeling, LEED, M&V – Impact Evaluations – Database Management Software – Customer Service and Rebate Processing

17 Domestic Offices 11 International Offices

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W HAT I S A SMALL BUSI NESS DI RECT I NSTALL PROGRAM?

  • Seeks to provide energy efficiency services and

education to harder to reach small business market

  • Provides energy assessment for small commercial

facilities

  • Facilitates the direct retrofit installation of energy

efficiency measures through program-ready contractors

  • Helps to minimize customer effort and reduce

financial barriers by providing direct services and incentives

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TYPI CAL PROGRAM PROCESS

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PROGRAM OUTREACH OPTI ONS

  • Pull (lower cost and likely lower participation)

– Direct Mailer – Bill Inserts – Website Information – Chamber of Commerce

  • Push (higher cost and higher participation)

– “Door to Door” or “Street Sweeps” – “Contractor in the area” Announcements – Utility Customer Service must be aware of activities to confirm legitimacy

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DEFI NI NG CUSTOMER ELI GI BI LI TY

  • ‘Small Business’ eligibility is often established by peak

demand or annual energy consumption

– Could include premise size or age criteria – Target businesses that do not have formal or significant budgets for energy efficiency and/ or equipment improvements or are not candidates for ESPC.

  • Program can target business sectors, such as:

– Retail – Service – Restaurant

  • Consider avoiding businesses with high churn rate,

where code requirements may require energy efficient measures and opportunities are minimal.

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ENERGY ON-SI TE ASSESSMENT

  • Important “first” interaction between utility

representative and customer needs to balance:

– Time commitment from customer – Invasiveness vs Thoroughness – Education of customer on holistic energy efficiency

  • pportunities; home and business
  • Conduct on-site audit to determine program and

measure installation options and eligibility

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ENERGY ON-SI TE ASSESSMENT

  • Utilize standard survey instruments for assessment

completeness

– Consistent auditing forms – PDA’s

  • Establish a customer installation cost and work order to

complete project and identify simple payback

– Establish deemed measure performance for uniformity and simplicity

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ENERGY ON-SI TE ASSESSMENT

  • Optional: Provide customer with an understanding of

premise energy consumption

– Utilization of on-line report printing can keep customer engaged in the program

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ENERGY ON-SI TE ASSESSMENT

  • Optional: Gather information about saturations of existing:

– Commercial sector composition – End-use prevalence – Equipment efficiency saturations not in program

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Warehouse Small Office Retail Restaurant Miscellaneous Large Office Health Grocery Education Percent of Fixtures T12 T8 Incandescent CFLs HID Miscellaneous

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ENERGY ON-SI TE ASSESSMENT: EFFECTI VE MEASURES

  • Program should include measures that are proven to be

cost-effective (TRC> 1.0) and relatively simple to install

– Fluorescent Lighting – Lighting Controls – LED exit signs – LED signs – HVAC tune-up – Programmable Thermostats – Refrigeration

  • Gaskets and Insulation
  • Door Closures

– Water Heating

  • Equipment upgrade
  • Pipe Insulation
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CUSTOMER FI NANCI NG

  • Several incentive and financing options

– No cost to customer for measure installations up to $1,000, $1,500, even $2,500!

  • Customer can elect to install measures above no cost
  • thresholds. Utility can provide incentives for projects

exceeding no cost threshold.

– Customer funds 20% to 30% of installation costs

  • Optional zero-percent financing option recovered through

energy bill payments

– Tie-in with existing utility incentives

  • Define a stream-lined cost proposal to customer

and easy to follow participation process

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MEASUREMENT & VERI FI CATI ON

  • Conduct inspections on small sample of projects to

confirm proper installation procedures

  • Provide higher sampling rates for energy efficiency

measures that have higher uncertainty of savings

– Savings from thermostats and lighting controls can be defeated. – CFL saving persistence can be lower.

  • Reduce sampling rates for measures that have low

uncertainty of savings, such as

– Fluorescent lighting – LED exit signs

  • Consider baseline inspections to verify savings.
  • Lighting loggers to determine operating hours can be

useful to calibrate deemed savings.

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LI GHTI NG LOGGER DATA

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EVALUATI ON LESSONS LEARNED

  • Program included:

– Linear fluorescent measures – CFL measures – LED exit signs – Water heating aerators – Water heating insulation

  • Up to $1,000 of no cost installed measures

– Customer can purchase program measures for 100% of measure installation cost over $1,000

  • Program participants could not participate in other utility

DSM programs for 2 years

  • Program participation percentages:

– 99.5% linear fluorescent – 30% CFL measures – 16% Exit signs – 1.5% Water heating measures

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EVALUATI ON LESSONS LEARNED

  • 2,420 kWh saved per customer
  • Average implementation cost was $1,008

– 25% exceeded no cost cap

  • Evaluated SBDI program had TRC = 2.30, PAC = 1.34
  • Evaluated Net-to-Gross is 95%
  • Program had an evaluated peak demand coincidence of 81%
  • Operating hours for small businesses were lower than

California DEER deemed operating hours, 80% of deemed values

  • Baseline equipment installation tracking can be difficult with

many possible equipment types

– In some cases like for like installations have occurred

  • CFL measures can have poor persistence
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SBDI PROGRAM BENEFI TS

  • Reducing overhead costs for small businesses!
  • JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

– Program has measurable impact on job creation

  • High incentives can lead to high participation in

hard to reach market

– Buoy DSM portfolio targets when CFL baselines increase

  • Proper program design can have TRC and PAC
  • ver 1.0.

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QUESTI ONS?

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