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TRENDS RESHAPING RETAIL ELECTRIC SERVICE

PNUCC BOARD MEETING MARCH 9, 2018

Threat or Opportunity?

Threat or Opportunity?

New Technologies Want Your Customers Want Control but Not Responsibility

Who Owns the Narrative?

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• investment. . . .

Forbes

FEB 11, 2016 @ 01:36 PM

“Emerging” Technologies Now “Mature”

Decreasing costs and new business models compete with the traditional utility model:

• Private generation for residential and

commercial customers

• Storage revolution
• Transportation electrification
• Third party home energy management

solutions Vendors aggregate to compete with supply and/or be compensated at the retail level for grid services.

No Business As Usual

• Commercial customers are leaving the system to purchase their own supply.
• Technology companies expect transparency in supply and grid planning.
• Utilities must duplicate distributed renewables capacity unless and until it is “controllable”.
• Current rate structures to incentivize distributed energy resources have distorted the true

economic value and benefits brought to the grid by increased distributed resources.

• “As a result, some customers are making inefficient investments and are overcompensated

for the services that they provide to the power system. At the same time, many more

• pportunities that could deliver greater value are being left untapped because of inadequate

compensation.” – 2016 MIT Energy Initiative, The Utility of the Future

Threat or Opportunity?

GR$$N vs. CLEAN

September 2016 “MGM is now contracting with [an] independent energy company . . . for the 171 megawatts consumed by its Nevada properties. The motivations for the departure were energy independence and the desire for more renewable energy, said Cindy Ortega, senior vice president and chief sustainability officer at MGM, . . ‘We’re required to do 23 percent; we’re going to try to double that,’ Ortega said. ‘It’s going to increase, no question about it.’”

Source: GreenTech Media, How MGM Prepared Itself to Leave Nevada’s Biggest Utility

June 2017 “Nevada’s powerful casino lobby group was a strong opponent of AB 206 [increasing Nevada’s RPS to 40% by 2030], because it would have required large gaming companies, which recently paid tens of millions of dollars in exit fees to purchase power on the open market, to also meet the higher renewable energy targets. In April, Virginia Valentine, president of the Nevada Resort Association, . . . said, ‘We are concerned that this bill may be too much and too soon.’”

Source: GreenTech Media, Nevada Governor Kills Renewable Energy, Community Solar Bills with Deregulation Pending

Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) with Solar or Distributed Generation Provisions

Renewable Portfolio Standard with solar/distributed generation (DG) provision Renewable Portfolio Goal with solar/DG provision

www.dsireusa.org / March 2015

WA: 2 MW DG (M) OR: 20 MW PV x 2020 2 for PV (M) NV: 1.5% (E) x 2025 2.4 + for PV (M) UT: 2.4 (M) for (E) AZ: 4.5% DG x 2025 NM: 4% (E) x 2020 0.6% DG x 2020 CO: 3.0% DG x 2020 1.5% CST x 2020 (M) MN: 1.5% (E) x 2020 0.15% PV DG x 2020 MI: 3.2 + (M) for (E) MO: 0.3% (E) x 2021 IL: 1.5% PV x 2026 0.25% DG x 2026 OH: 0.5% (E) x 2027 SC: 0.25% DG x 2021

Solar water heating counts toward solar/DG provision

21 States + DC have an RPS with solar or DG provisions

DC

NC: 0.2% (E) x 2018 NH: 0.3% (E) x 2014 MA: 400 MW PV x 2020 NY: 0.58% customer - sited x 2015 PA: 0.5% PV x 2021 NJ: 4.1% (E) x 2028 DE: 3.5% PV x 2026 3.0 (M) for PV MD: 2% (E) x 2020 DC: 2.5% (E) x 2023 Delaware allows certain fuel cell systems to qualify for the PV carve-out (E): Solar Electric PV: Solar Photovoltaic DG: Distributed Generation (M): Multipliers (CST): Customer - Sited

Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy 2017

Source: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-2017/

100% Renewables ASAP (Please)

• Distributed generation installation on the rise
• Utility scale renewables cost-competitive with natural gas
• “Putting the pieces together, the net cost of energy storage reflects (a)

the increase in cost from building the storage, less (b) the fuel, fixed, and variable costs of thermal generation that storage replaces. Whether this

• utcome is a net cost or a net savings depends on the specific

characteristics of the grid in question, and its renewable energy profile.” - Michael Cembalest, J.P. Morgan Annual Energy Paper, June 2017

• New renewable plants put immediate upward pressure on rates: (1) rates

do not reflect the cost of carbon emissions (which renewables save); (2) rates must reflect the cost of keeping the thermal units to provide power when renewables power down

• Renewables subsidies (ITC/PTC) will not be available forever
• Natural gas cannot compete with renewables in energy market

Customer Perception

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Customer Expectations vs. Customer Behavior

“Customers now face unprecedented choice regarding how they get their power and how they manage their electricity consumption—regardless of whether they are aware of those choices or are acting on them today.” – 2016 MIT Energy Initiative, The Utility of the Future Customers are Asking Customers Want

• Why do new technologies impact rates?
• Cleaner technologies for cheaper
• Why doesn’t the utility offer these

products?

• Efficient services and solutions and billing
• How to utilize new technologies?
• Control and savings without responsibility

Customer Expectations vs. Customer Behavior

• “With the home energy management market expected to reach $1.9 billion by 2019,

the opportunity is ripe for utilities to integrate energy efficiency and demand response programs into their portfolios.”

• “According to a recent survey by Parago, only 14 percent of U.S. consumers engage

in demand response programs today, but 87 percent would do so with the right incentives.”

• “The challenge utilities face is changing the nature of their relationship with residential

customers to drive successful adoption of energy efficiency programs on a larger scale.”

• “What customers understand are intangibles — safety, comfort, control, convenience.

Utilities must address these customer needs.”

Source: Greenbiz, What utility customers really want in home energy management (Dec. 2, 2014)

Threat or Opportunity?

• Customer education
• Rate structures with visibility
• Demand charges
• Aggregation of DER by the utility
• Energy management
• Energy market
• Data and security
• R&D

Questions?

Lauren Rosenblatt Marie Steele Lauren@e-centricity.com Marie@e-centricity.com