OMA Energy Efficiency & CHP/WER

Working Groups

Combined Heat & Power

Agenda

Welcome & introductions

News Brief

Buckeye Power/rural cooperative efficiency programs

CHP rule changes at the PUCO and statehouse

Stand-by rates

Net-metering

Utility incentives

Survey feedback

Peer case-study – Omnova CHP project

From the experts – CHP 101 from the Midwest Clean Energy Application Center

Questions and wrap-up

Future Schedule

Wednesday, July 17th – CHP – Case study Doug Fox with Omnova

Wednesday, August 14th – Fans / in conjunction with OMA Energy Resources, Energy Group @ 8 am

Wednesday, September 18th – Site tour / CHP & WER

Wednesday, October 19th – Pumps

Future dates - TBD

Buckeye Power

Distribution utilities – investor owned (AEP, FE, DP&L, Duke), municipal (ex. Cleveland Public Power, Wapakoneta), rural electric cooperatives

Municipals may aggregate purchasing or own generation through AMP

Cooperatives similarly aggregate purchasing or own generation through Buckeye Power

Buckeye Power already does load management (53 MW in summer, 100 MW in winter bid into PJM)

Efficiency program

C&I – Offer 50% cost-share of an audit up to $2,000

Offer another 50% of implementation costs up to $3,000

Prescriptive lighting

T12 to T8

HID (ex., 400-Watt metal halide) high-bay fluorescent

Open to idea of bidding in efficiency resources, not committed to it

PUCO Rule and Legislative Changes

Combined Heat & Power

Stand-By Rates

If your CHP system meets or exceeds your electrical load (meaning, you could potentially export electricity)

OMA Energy Group has submitted comments to the PUCO

Reserved power

AEP – “Standby Service”

First Energy – “Partial Service”

Duke – “Generation Support Service”

DP&L – we believe they just use the standard offer

Net Metering

Allows for over-generation to be credited to account

kWh or $ is credited within billing period (part of the debate)

Consider shift differences for manufacturers

Definition of micro-turbine specifically included Net metering used to be solar and

wind focused

OMA Energy Group submitted comments to the PUCO Additional PUCO comments just filed

recently

Utility Incentives

Governor Kasich’s Energy Pillar / SB 315 adjustment to SB 221 CHP and WER to be included in energy efficiency

resource standard PUCO considering counting methodology

Complicated – several methods (Mass, ACEEE, SWEEP) and variants off these methods

OMA Energy Group will receive data & recommendations from our staff

Incentive from utility could tip the scales for CHP development Approximately 20%+ of system cost

Much less expensive generation, 80% cost share from the manufacturer

No utility has pro-actively starting CHP-specific programs creates issues, burden on mfg OMA Energy Group intervenes in efficiency

cases, requests

SB 221 and 315 critical to CHP

Survey Results

Survey Results

Survey Results

What other regulatory changes could help CHP projects?

Answer – Streamlined EPA approval and permit modification

Questions & Wrap-Up

Future Meetings

Wednesday, August 14th – Fans / in conjunction with OMA Energy Resources, Energy Group @ 8 am

Wednesday, September 18th – Site tour / CHP & WER

Wednesday, October 19th – Pumps