Greg DavorenState Energy Program

NASEO 2017 Northeast MeetingU.S. Department of Energy │State Energy Program

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Today’s Topics

• WIP Mission

• WIP Budget

• State Energy Program Update

• SEP Northeast Update

• Partnerships & Technical Assistance Resources

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WIP Mission & Structure

State Energy ProgramWeatherization

Assistance Program Partnerships and

Technical AssistanceStrategic & Interagency

Initiatives

• WIP is part of EERE’s “all of the above” national energy strategy to create greater energy affordability, security and resiliency.

• WIP’s mission is to enable strategic investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and innovative practices across the U.S. by a wide range of government, community and business stakeholders, in partnership with state and local organizations.

• WIP supports DOE’s strategic objective to lower energy costs while expanding energy choices for all American communities. WIP’s near-term activities produce almost immediate results, saving taxpayer dollars, making full use of domestic energy resources, boosting local economic development and job creation, cutting energy waste, improving energy independence and security, and furthering the development of energy infrastructure.

WIP Structure

WIP Mission

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WIP Budget Summary

Breakdown FY 2015 Enacted

FY 2016 Enacted

FY 2017 Request

FY 2017 Omnibus

State Energy Program $50M $50M $70M $50M

Weatherization Assistance Program $193M $215M $230M $228M

Total, Weatherization and Intergovernmental $243M $265M $300M $278M

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State Energy Program

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SEP 2017 Formula & Competitive Funding

• FY 2017 Formula Grants– FY17 Grant Guidance and Administrative Legal Requirements Document (ALRD)

released on January 19, 2017.– 2017 allocations based on $39M.– SEP conducted a webinar for state on the guidance and ALRD on February 8, 2017.– Issued ALRD in record time in 2017!

• FY 2017 Competitive Awards

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SEP Program Outcome and Benefits

Between 2010 and 2017, SEP formula and competitive funding implemented by the states and territories has resulted in many outcomes and benefits,* including the following:

Reduced energy waste in more than 20,000 buildings (125 million square feet) through energy efficiency upgrades;

Installed more than 60,000 renewable energy systems (8 million kilowatt hours);

Educated more than 2 million people in energy efficiency and energy audits through workshops, training sessions and/or webinars;

Executed Energy Savings Performance Contracts to undertake retrofit projects in public facilities, such as state and municipal buildings, correctional facilities, water districts, and educational institutions;

Assisted industry partners to become more economically competitive by identifying barriers to industrial energy efficiency;

Coordinated with local utilities to establish and implement complementary efficiency programs;

Demonstration and piloting of innovative energy projects with the private sector, K-12 schools and universities; and

Developed implementation models that serve as “how-to” guides for other states who wish to replicate the programs that are achieving energy efficiency savings.

* Based on state reporting in PAGE

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Improved FOA/ALRD Process

Formula ALRD

• FY17 ALRD released in record time!

• 100% of Formula Grants on time and without conditions for the past three years!

• Negotiation calls with states early in process

• Detailed guidance on budget justifications

• Changed project period from 5 years to 3 years.

Competitive FOA

• FY16 FOA issued January instead of April

• FOA reduced in length

• Technical Merit Review Criteria reorganized and consolidated

• New AOI: Up to $750k for TA for states without a prior year comp. award

• Consistent timeline for application period and selections

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Breakdown:

Area 1: State Energy PlanningFacilitate interagency discussions concerning the future direction of electric power among other issues. States will pursue comprehensive energy planning to enhance energy reliability, energy efficiency, the integration of distributed renewable energy into the grid, and economic development and environmental policies. Awardees: HI, MN, NM

Area 2: Opportunities for Innovative Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy PracticesAdvance energy efficiency and renewable energy, including: working with utilities to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy generation goals; enabling financing mechanisms for public or private sector clean energy investment; deploying energy performance benchmarking and disclosure; standardizing evaluation, measurement and verification processes; and partnering with local governments. Awardees: AL, AR, CO (with MO), CT (with D.C., DE, NH, NY, RI, VT), IL, ME, NE, NY (with D.C., MD, MN), RI (with AR, MA, MO, OR), and VA (with D.C., MD)

Area 3: Technical Assistance to Advance SEP Formula Grant Clean Energy ActivitiesAwardees: FL, MT, WVExpand high priority ongoing programs; a new topic area to assist states to expand the scope and depth of existing work.

AreaNo. of

AwardsFunding

1 3 $745,316

2 10 $4,029,684

3 3 $225,000

Total 16 $5,000,000

Announced in August 2016; Awards kicked-off in January 2017

FY16 SEP Competitive Awards

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Status of SEP Revolving Loan Funds

STATS: $690M in ARRA funding has

been budgeted to 40 state-run financing programs

$602M of available funds for RLF programs.

108% of available RLF funds have been loaned out to date.

Sector breakout of loans :RLF Loans Given (#)

RLF Loans Given ($)Loans Fully Repaid (#)

Loans Fully Repaid ($)

Agricultural 34 1,810,998 8 368,664

Commercial 302 111,141,086 96 21,127,666

Industrial 120 142,775,674 29 31,611,922

Institutional 26 27,409,480 2 1,267,765

Public 1,191 309,415,467 305 32,967,792

Residential 3,351 52,791,006 1,231 13,407,019

Transportation 2 2,817,430 1 2,334,430 Total 5,026 648.1M 1,672 103.1M

Agricultural0%

Commercial17%

Industrial22%

Institutional4%

Public48%

Residential8%

Transportation1%

Loan Recipient Sector, by loan value

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National SEP Successes since 2010

Implemented energy security, resiliency, and

emergency preparedness plans;

Developed state-led strategic energy initiatives;

Invested in expanded use of energy resources

abundant in states;

Piloted innovative energy projects within the private

sector, K-12 schools and universities; and

Developed Implementation Models that serve as

“how-to” guides for states who wish to replicate the

programs achieving energy efficiency savings.

Installed 60,000+ renewable energy systems (8 million

kilowatt hours)

Reduced energy waste in 20,000+ buildings (125M square

feet) through energy efficiency upgrades

Educated >2 million people in performing energy audits and

upgrades

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NASEO Northeast Region

MP GU AS PR USVI

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NASEO Northeast Region: FY16 Formula Market Titles

Buildings6% Electric Power and

Ren. Energy13%

Energy Education4%

Industry3%

Policy, Planning and Energy Sec.

74%

Transportation0%

Northeast Planned Formula Allocations PY16

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NASEO Northeast Region: Revolving Loan Funds

STATS:

$13.3M: Available funds for RLF programs

$27.6M: Available funds for 6, state-run financing programs

Sector breakout of loans :RLF Loans Given (#)

RLF Loans Given ($)Loans Fully Repaid (#)

Loans Fully Repaid ($)

Agricultural 1 308,000 1 308,000

Commercial 50 8,747,834 9 2,326,583

Industrial - - - -

Institutional - - - -

Public 3 799,450 - -

Residential 22 300,000 8 112,150

Transportation - - - -

Total 76 10,155,284 18 2,746,733

Agricultural3%

Commercial86%

Industrial0%

Institutional0%

Public8%

Residential3%

Transportation0%

Loan Recipient Sector, by loan value

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NASEO Northeast Region: SEP Formula Accomplishments

Conducted 2,100 workshops (45,000 attendees) on performing energy audits and energy

efficiency upgrades.

Reduced energy waste in 5,000 buildings (10.7 million square feet) through energy efficiency

upgrades.

Installed 1.6 million kWh of renewable energy capacity, including wind and solar energy

systems.

Since 2010, the 7 states in the NASEO Northeast Region have reported the following high-level accomplishments:

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Focus & Areas of Interest Investment Awardees

Commercial/Industrial Buildings

FY12 – Advancing EE in Public Buildings $2,105,000 3 States: MA, NY, RI

Finance

FY13 – Driving Demand for PublicFacility Retrofits

$283,530 1 State: MA

Advancing State Planning, Policies and Programs

FY15 - State Energy Planning $876,705 2 States: ME, NY

FY14, FY15, FY16 - Opportunities forInnovative EERE Practices $3,658,862

6 States: CT, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT

TOTAL $6,924,097

NASEO Northeast Region: SEP Competitive Awards (FY12-FY16)

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NASEO Northeast Region: Success Examples

Rhode Island State Energy Plan: Energy 2035 (2016)Rhode Island’s Energy 2035 lays out a path to an energy future consistent with existing policy at the state, regional, and federal levels and also offers additional visionary steps to enhance the economic, environmental, and human well-being of the state.

Leading New Hampshire’s Wastewater Treatment Facilities to Energy Efficiency (2015)New Hampshire partnered with the state’s four largest electric utilities to reduce electric energy use by an average of 33% at more than 20 municipally-owned wastewater treatment facilities through the use of educational workshops, benchmarking facility-specific energy use data, and one-on-one technical assistance. These gains will save the local municipal facilities approximately $1.8 million per year in energy costs and will help New Hampshire achieve energy reduction goals.

New York’s Utility Energy Registry (2016) New York and partners will advance development of the “Utility Energy Registry,” an online platform that provides public access to community-scale utility energy demographics to drive state and local government clean energy planning. The project will leverage New York’s existing work with investor-owned utilities to collect aggregated community-level energy data, resulting in a web-based platform that can enable the use of community-level data nationally by municipalities and other interested entities.

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Coming Soon: Massachusetts FY12 Implementation Model!

MASSACHUSETTS

Coming Soon to the State and Local Solution Center: energy.gov/eere/slsc

GOAL: Achieve a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction of

25% by 2020, from a 1990 baseline, as well as an 80% reduction

by 2050.

BARRIER: Public housing developments and public schools lack

access to capital and low-interest financing for energy efficiency

and thermal renewable energy upgrade projects.

SOLUTION: Massachusetts created the Schools and Public

Housing Integrating Renewables and Efficiency (SAPHIRE)

Program to provide technical assistance and funding to public

housing developments and public schools to perform energy

efficiency and renewable thermal projects.

OUTCOMES: The SAPHIRE Program resulted in energy

efficiency and renewable energy projects in seven public schools

and 14 multifamily public housing sites. These projects are

expected to yield nearly $600,000 in energy cost savings

annually. SAPHIRE projects were expected to yield GHG

reductions of up to 85%.

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Coming Soon: Rhode Island FY12 Implementation Model!

RHODE ISLAND

Coming Soon to the State and Local Solution Center: energy.gov/eere/slsc

GOAL: To empower public entities to make smart energy

decisions to achieve an average of 20% energy savings in at

least 100 public facilities, to include state and local government,

universities and K-12 public school facilities.

BARRIER: Lack of public sector data infrastructure to accurately

measure energy consumption, prioritize projects, and verify

savings.

SOLUTION: The state established the Rhode Island Public

Energy Partnership, a collaboration of state and local

governments, utilities, and university partners, whose mission

was to create an inventory of energy performance data for public

sector buildings to identify and prioritize EE upgrade projects.

OUTCOMES: RI was able to use the inventory to rank energy

use and prioritize and implement EE projects. The team’s goal

was to implement 100 EE projects with average energy savings

of 20%. The team exceeded the goal by implementing 1243 EE

projects in three years for an average portfolio-wide energy

savings of 28.6% or 4,700 MMBTU.

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SEP Resources: Operations Manual & Fact Sheets

Available here: energy.gov/eere/wipo/state-energy-program

Updates Coming Soon

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*New* SEP Project Map Launching in Spring 2017!

Energy.gov/EERE/WIPO

SEP Project Map

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Sharing Your Successes!

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Partnerships & Technical Assistance Team

Develop an

Energy Plan

Design and

Implement

Energy

Programs

Access andUse Energy

Data

Pay for Energy

Initiatives

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Partnerships & Technical Assistance (P&TA) Team

The P&TA Team serves as the nexus of state and local governments to catalyze lead-by-example programs by:

• Developing tools and solutions to barriers facing state and local government utilization of efficiency and renewable energy;

• Convening and creating peer exchanges to showcase public-sector leadership and effective public-private partnerships; and

• Providing information from leading technical experts.

Resulting Benefits: P&TA supports the energy priorities of state and local governments to save taxpayer dollars and make full use of domestic energy resources, boost economic development and job creation, cut energy waste, improve energy independence and security, and further develop energy infrastructure.

Develop an Energy Plan

• Local Energy Planning• State Energy Planning

Design and Implement Energy Programs

• Low-Income Communities • Wastewater Infrastructure • Outdoor Lighting • Energy Efficiency for K-12 Schools• Public-Private Partnerships

Pay for Energy Infrastructure

• EE Finance 101• ESPCs, QECBs, PACE, RLFs

Access and Use Energy Data

• Benchmarking• Data Disclosure & Transparency• Evaluation, Measurement, & Verification (EM&V)

The Partnerships and Technical Assistance (P&TA) Team cultivates diverse partnerships, provides technical assistance and assists state and local governments to help them:

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WIP Better Buildings Accelerators

http://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/accelerators

Outdoor Lighting Energy Savings

Performance Contracting

Sustainable Wastewater

Infrastructure of the Future

Clean Energy for Low

Income Communities

Launched May 2016

Toolkits Now Available!

Ended December 2016

SWIFt: 26 signatory partners representing 100+ water resource recovery committed to improve energy efficiency by 30% Northeast State Partners: CT, NH, RI

CELICA: 39 partners have committed to leverage $300M to support integrated EE and RE to lower household utility bills Northeast State Partners: CT, MA, NY

OLA: Garnered a commitment from 25 partners to upgrade 1.3 million street lights between 2014 and 2016Northeast State Partner: RI

ESPC: 25 partners catalyzed public-sector energy efficiency investments of more than $2 billion from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2016Northeast State Partners: CT, MA, NH

Other Accelerators of Interest:• Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency• Zero Energy Schools

Currently Underway

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NEW Technical Assistance Resources

Other Technical Assistance Resources:• Best Practice Guidelines for Residential PACE Financing Programs

• Leveraging Federal Renewable Energy Tax Credits

• COMING SOON—The One-Stop Commercial PACE Shop: A Straightforward Collection of Wisdom from the Field

• COMING SOON—Energy Data Collection and Tracking in the Public Sector: Best Practices for Establishing a Robust and Sustainable Energy Data Management Program

• COMING SOON—BBC State Showcase Projects from MA, MD, MN, NY, RI and BBC State IM from NC

https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.govNew Toolkits:

1. Energy Savings Performance Contracting—Accelerator catalyzed over $2B in ESPC Investment

• ESPC Virtual Assistant• ESPC Champions Toolkit• ESPC Networking Toolkit• ESPC or Design-Bid-Build Comparison

2. Outdoor Lighting—Accelerator achieved partner commitments to retrofit 1.3 million streetlights ($48M expected annual savings)

• Outdoor Lighting Decision Tree Tool• Outdoor lighting Challenges and Solutions

Pathways Report

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• State and Local Solution Center

• 6,000+ visits per month

• Over 300 tools, resources, and best practices for states and local governments as they plan for and implement energy projects

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Resources for State and Local Leaders-NEW this month!

• Disseminated at several events targeting State and Local government leaders

• State and Local Spotlight

• Monthly update with ~8,000 subscribers

State and Local Outreach

Subscribe: http://energy.gov/eere/slsc

or Email Us: stateandlocal@ee.doe.gov

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Items for Discussion

1. SEP FY17 Competitive FOA

2. Challenges for SEOs/DOE Technical Assistance Needed

3. Work in rural areas

4. What is the nature of your work with utilities?

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THANK YOU!

Questions?