smart grid. fort zed open smart city 2012
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Fort Collins at a Glance
• Size: 55.58 miles
• Population: 145,000
• Housing units: 60,503
• Median age: 29.4 years
• College and advanced degrees: 48.2%
• Median family income: $74,596
• Average annual population growth rate: 1.9%
Fort Collins
Electric Utility
• 65,000 homes and
businesses
• Underground system
• 6 Substations
• 63 Distribution Feeders
• 43st largest Municipal
Utility in the Country out
of 2000
One of the most ambitious projects of its kind under development in the nation is FortZED, a three-way initiative of the Colorado Clean Energy Cluster (CCEC), Fort Collins Utilities (FCU), and UniverCity Connections.
FortZED will be realized through a systems approach with a broad portfolio of smart grid technologies, renewable energy sources and supporting public policies.
• The infrastructure to enable FortZED
• To balance and optimize resources
• End-use building energy conservation and efficiency, including behavioral practices
• Local generation from solar, wind, waste-to-energy, biomass, etc.
Renewable Energy
Conservation & Efficiency
Implement a Smart Grid
System Load Management
Accomplishments to Date
• DOE’s Renewable and Distributed Systems Integration Project - $12M
• State of CO Energy Efficiency Program - $4M
• DOE Smart Grid Implementation - $36M
• Community Energy Challenge – 197 MWh
• Green Restaurant Initiative
Benefits of RDSI Project
• Major Smart Grid infrastructure project
• Showcases the capabilities of the region’s top clean tech companies
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Reducing Local Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Fort Collins is a national leader in reducing local greenhouse (GHG) emissions.
• City Council policies support GHG reduction goals.
• 2008 Climate Action Plan
• 2009 Energy Policy
• Policy helps advance economic and environmental sustainability.
City Goals
Energy Policy
• 1.5% energy savings
• reduce system peak by 5% by 2015, 10% by 2020
• provide highly reliable electric service
• develop renewable resources to meet the Colorado Renewable Energy Standard
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New Customer Choices Consumers – know what your usage is before you get your bill.
Rate options:
• Recharge your electric vehicle when it is least expensive.
• Sell your solar energy to the grid when it is more valuable.
• Smart Home – emerging smart appliances may help to save you money.
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Next Steps
• Feed-in-Tariff 10+MWh annually
• Thermal Storage (Ice Energy)
• EV charging & vehicle purchase
• CSU Smart Grid Lab expansion