Travis Sheehan
EcoDistricts Energy Fellow
travis.sheehan@boston.gov
Community Energy
The BRA and Mayor’s Office of
Environment, Energy and Open
Spaces collaborate on district
energy planning.
GridMod Proceedings Begin
DPU Order Investigation 12-76 (10/2/2012)
To solicit from stakeholders that will guide Dept’s approach to grid modernization
over the short, medium, and long term. “We will examine our policies to ensure
that electric distribution companies adopt grid modernization technologies and
practices in order to
•enhance reliability of electric service,
•reduce electricity costs,
•and empower customers to adopt new electricity
technologies and better manage their use of
electricity
http://www.env.state.ma.us/dpu/docs/electric/12-76/10212dpuvtord.pdf
GridMod Proceedings
Adapted from Presentation by Ben Davis, MA DPU. September 2013. “Grid Modernization in Massachusetts: The Role of Energy
Efficiency”
GridMod Straw Proposal
DPU 12-76-A (12/23/2013)
Two components:
• Grid Modernization Plan 10 year strategic plan + CAMP
(Comprehensive Advanced Metering Plan)
•Strategy and general investment plan, implementation,
potentially new rate structures
• Misc topics including (1) TVR, (2) Cyber Security, privacy and
access to meter data and (3) EV’s
http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dpu/electric/grid-mod/d-p-u-12-76-a-12-23-2013.pdf
Source: Gridling Global
“Localized, networked water treatment systems
improve access to potable water, encourage
the development and diffusion of
innovations through reduced financial and
technical risks, lower the potential of total
system failure, and provide easier trial and
replacement of specific innovations and greater
organizational capacity.”
“Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment Systems: Opportunities for Innovation” Dr. Sarah
Slaughter, The Solutions Journal, 2010
Executive Order 13632
•In August 2013, the Federal Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding
Task Force published a Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding
Strategy
•Highlighted CHP as a successful driver of climate
preparedness
•Recommendation 12: ensuring that Sandy recovery
energy investments in critical infrastructure are resilient
•Recommendation 14: encouraging Federal and State
cooperation to improve electric grid policies and
standards
Why District Energy?
•GHG Emissions Reduction
•CHP
•Renewables Plug in
•Servicing base loads
•Innovation
•Plug-n-play for technology pilot acceleration
•Climate Preparedness/Resilience
•Islandable services for critical facilities, places of refuge and mission
critical system for certain firms (life sciences, finance)
•Critical services like evacuation route lighting, EOC’s, transit services
•Economic Development
•Burgeoning market of energy technology
•Clean tech market segment
•Localized labor and revenues from Energy Services
Why Not District Energy?
Model 1
Institution
ESCO
Utility
Buildings/
Streets
Physical Plant,
Distribution
Rate
Agreement
Interconnection
Single Building
Owners
Single Building
Owners
Single Building
Owners
Power
Purchase,
Bonding
Authority,
Franchise
Exceptions
Model 2:
ESCO
Utility
Physical Plant,
Distribution
Rate
Agreement
Interconnection
Why District Energy?
Photo: http://yourtubenews.ning.com
Source: Back Bay Scotia Street Netowork Substation Incident, Forensic Engineering Report, RTI, June 2012
Why District Energy?
•Utilities
•Implies market transformation
•Backfeeding into electric distribution system
•End Users
•MUSH market vs aggregated group of end users
•municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals
•Power Purchase agreements
•Coordinated distribution infrastructure development
•Business model
•Asset and resale impacts
•City Involvement not the norm
Why District Energy?
Where has it worked?
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Seeded 1906
Completed 1980
9 MSF
103k inpatients , 2.4M
outpatients
• 46 MW total- (24 MW
E, 22 MW Steam
Driven)
• 360,000 pounds of
steam per hour
Why District Energy?
Hospital 1
Hospital 2
Hospital 3
Hospital 4
Hospital 5
Longwood Medical Energy
Collaborative (fmrly.
“Harvard Medical
Collaborative”)
Power Purchase
Agreement
MATEP
Morgan Stanley
Infrastructure
Partners
Veolia Energy
North America
Why District Energy?
Portland Sustainability Institute. “District Energy Development Ownership and Governance Models.” March 2011. Accessed
6/10/2013. http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/349828
Source: Decentralised Energy Masterplanning, A Guide for Local Authorities (ARUP, online
resource)
http://www.londonheatmap.org.uk/Conte
nt/uploaded/documents/EMP_Manual_lo.
pdf
Local Government’s Role
Visioning for Boston
• Trigeneration distribution
infrastructure (cooling, heating
and power)
• Deepwater Cooling, Anaerobic
Digestion, Solar, Wind
• Local CHP
• Sewerage heat loss recovery
• Green Transit: Electric vehicle
network, bikeshare
• Green Infrastructure:
Bioswales, constructed
wetlands
Strategy
• Citywide CHP/ District
Energy study
• Project Development
• Pioneer
investment/business
model for distribution
networks
• Market transformation
through collaboration and
accountability with
incumbent utilities and
regulators
Source: Power Play, A Heat Map of New York City, State of the
Planet, The Earth Institute (Modi, et al.)
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/13/power-play-an-energymap-of-new-york-city/
Cambridge Entitlement Process
• Found in Cambridge’s Zoning Ordinance Text of the City of
Cambridge, MA
• Under Chapter 13, Planned Unit Development Districts
• 13.89.4 Sustainability– A) Energy and Emissions; Steam. Each new building must conserve
building energy and, to the extent applicable, reduce carbon/GHG
emissions. The Developer, with each Development within the PUD-5
District, must evaluate the potential for on-site energy generation or
the construction of co-generation facilities within the PUD-5 District
that will serve the new building and other buildings located within the
PUD-5 District. A Development Proposal for a commercial building
shall include a study, prepared by the Developer, considering the
feasibility of connecting the building identified in the Development
Proposal to the existing district steam system.
• K2-C2- Development proposals in the Osborn Triangle must include
a study of the technical and cost feasibility of utilizing the district
steam system to provide heating energy for new or existing
buildings in the PUD.
Partnerships
• Working partners:
– DOE:Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance
Partnerships (CHP TAPs)
– Pace Law and Climate Center
– International District Energy Association
• Collaborators:
– Department of Public Utilities (Regulators)
– Department of Energy Resources (State Executive)
– Mass Clean Energy Center (Quasi- rate payer funded)