renewables + resilience

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Renewables + Resilience

National League of Cities: Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Steering Committee Meeting

Eliza Hotchkiss, NREL

September 5th, 2014

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Introduction

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Integrated Approach

Different fueltypes

• Electrical• Thermal• Transportation

Different fuel uses

• Buildings• Transportation• Infrastructure

Overlapping mandates

• EE, RE, water, GHGs, metering

• Life cycle cost

Bring people together

• Fleet• Public works• Maintenance• Utilities• Legal• Finance/Economics

Align incentives

• Facility managers measured on goal building site Btu

• New categories of buildings / fuel use for savings

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Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)

RPS is a regulation that requires the increased production of energy from renewable energy sources (e.g., solar, biomass, geothermal, wind).

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RPS Policy Analysis

www.dsireusa.org

29 states,+ Washington DC and 2 territories,have

Renewable Portfolio Standards

(8 states and 2 territories have

renewable portfolio goals).

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State RPS Policies

Source: www.dsireusa.org

St RPS

AZ 15% by 2025

CA 33% by 2020

CO 30% by 2020 (IOUs)10% by 2020

(co-ops/municipals)*

D.C. 20% by 2020

IA 105 MW (total between two utilities)

MD 20% by 2022

MO 15% by 2021

MN 25% by 2025 (Xcel: 30% by 2020)

PA ~18% by 2021

WA 15% by 2020*

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Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

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Why all the Resilience Buzz?

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Why all the Resilience Buzz?

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Why all the Resilience Buzz?

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Why all the Resilience Buzz?

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Why all the Resilience Buzz?

A secure and resilient Nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and

recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.

- FEMA, National Preparedness Goal (2011)

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What is Resilience?

… the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and re-organize while undergoing change so as to still

retain essentially the same function, structure, and identity…

Source: www.energy-reality.org/art/

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Resilience and Renewables

• New Jersey RPSo 20.38% Class I and Class II

renewables by 2020-2021 o + 4.1% solar-electric by

2027-2028

• New Jersey was 2nd in the nation for solar PV installations

• Only 2 PV systems were known to have operated during/after Hurricane Sandy William Paterson University, NJ

SOURCE: www.onlinetes.com

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Resilience and Renewables

• Metering policies• Grid controls• FEMA• State Agencies:

o DEPo OEMo GORRo NJ BPU

Bayonne School, NJ operated as a shelter during Hurricane SandySource: E. Hotchkiss, NREL

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Resilience and Renewables

• Defined critical infrastructure

• Identified energy loads

• Reviewed resources for solar, wind, methane capture, etc.

• Summarized technologies by building activity

Sayreville Pumping StationSource: E. Hotchkiss, NREL

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Resilience and Renewables

• Reviewing policies• Resilience Bank

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What Can YOU Do?

• Share experiences• Learn from others’

experiences• Review policies• Conduct analyses• PLAN to use renewable

energy to achieve resilience

Questions?

Contact Information: Eliza Hotchkisseliza.hotchkiss@nrel.gov