Community Pilots
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Efficiency Program
Outcomes
Program Offers
• Residential
– Comprehensive Residential program
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Inexpensive audit
Direct install
Building shell
Furnace, boilers, water heaters
– HVAC bonuses
– In-Home Displays
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Program Offers
• Business
– Small Business Audit
• Energy Audit
• Direct install
– Enhanced Business Incentives
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Lighting
LED
PC Network Management
Custom
– Staffing Grant
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Community Pilot
Focus on Energy - Energy Savings Targets
Community
Target
Actual
% of Target
Brillion
kWh
276,549.5
877,708
317%
kW
64.68
178.79
276%
Therms
44,050.4
44,006
99%
kWh
456,638.34
949,326
214%
kW
68.08
207.83
305%
Therms
57,661.1
152,238
264%
kWh
249,907.4
1,022,261
412%
kW
58.21
120.27
207%
Therms
51,058.1
57,054
117%
Allouez
Plover
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• Community Reward
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Community Reward
• Shared Goal
• Tangible Reward
• Peer pressure to participate
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Community Reward
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• Home Energy Review – Energy
Advocate
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Home Energy Review
Audit
• Behavior
• Direct
Install
Rewards
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Install
Option
• Options
• Shell
• Mechanical
Completion
Bids
• Verification
• Post Test
• Shell
• Mechanical
Home Energy Review
• Assessment and Audit
– $25 Allouez and Plover
– Audit Free and Assessment $150 in Brillion
• Incentives
– 60% of project cost
– 50-90% in Brillion based on income
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Energy Advocate
Completion
Rewards
Bids
Options
Audit
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Energy Advocate
• Guide customer through process
• People person first
– Energy expert second
• Follow up with customers who have
stalled on a step
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Energy Advocate
• Rave reviews from customers
• High audit conversion rates
• Creating community advocates
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• Staffing Grant
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Staffing Grant
• Original Design
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Up to $80k available per customer
Phase 1 (3 month) - $20k
Phase 2 grant of 2.5x energy saved
iCanConserve could request refund on phase 1
Staffed person could work on multiple
targets/companies
Staffing Grant
• Barriers
– Unknown targets and energy potential
– Approval of limited term hiring
– No guarantee on funding
– Short time to get projects completed
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Staffing Grant
• Next Steps
– Community leaders were still interested in participating
– Local colleges were interested in offering internship credits
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Staffing Grant
• Solutions
– Target School and Government Buildings
– UWSP and NWTC provided internships to students
– Interns were employed by Implementer
– Tasked to create prioritized project plan
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Staffing Grant
• Interns
– Completed audits on buildings
– Armed with auditing tools
– Able to complete direct installs
– Could handhold projects through completion
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Staffing Grant
• Brillion High School will save $7,772 and 85,472 kilowatt hours
(kWh) per year. The high school will receive $18,437 in Focus
on Energy incentives for approved lighting and vending
machine efficiency projects.
• Lighting upgrades, low-flow aerators and motor replacement
improvements at nine Plover (9) park buildings will save
$2,132 and 24,596 kilowatt hours (kWH) per year.
Recommended improvements qualified for $3,052 in Focus on
Energy incentives.
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Staffing Grant
• Results
– New generation of energy managers
– Recommendations and immediate completion of many
projects
– Annual savings
• $8.5k in Brillion
• $3,4k in Allouez
• $6.4k in Plover
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• Business Engagement
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Business Engagement
• Barriers to customer project
– Capital
– Expertise
– Priorities overrule energy
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Business Engagement
• Looking for a trustworthy source
• Need technical help with
recommendations
• Perceived value in custom solutions
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Business Engagement
• Address the expertise
– Allocate additional time to the face-to-face
interactions
– Build trust by finding the customers’ best
interest
– Offer everything: direct installs, audits,
and project management
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Business Engagement
• Address the need for capital
– Aggressive incentive rate
– Formula rate designed to be Program
Administer Cost Test positive
– Present as a custom solution
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Business Engagement
• Make it a priority
– Deadline based tiered incentive:
• Tier 3 submitted before June 30
• Tier 2 submitted before September 30
• Tier 1 submitted before December 31
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Business Engagement
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$/kWh
$/kW
$/therm
Incentive
Cap
Tier 1
4.5¢
150
45¢
50% of
project
Tier 2
13.5¢
$450
$1.35
50% of
project
Tier 3
22.5¢
$750
$2.25
75% of
project
Business Engagement
• Results
– Processed $400k in business incentives
for 2012
– Increased kW by 1700% from 2011
– Increased kWh by 3500% from 2011
– Negligible impact on therms
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Questions
Ben Dickson
CB&I
benjamin.dickson@cbi.com
608-230-7022
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