ACEEEIntelligent Efficiency 2016: Austin, TX

Jeff Perkins

ACEEEIntelligent Efficiency 2016: Austin, TX

Jeff Perkins

INTEGRATING UTILITY GOALS

METERING INFRASTRUCTURE(S)

METERING INFRASTRUCTURES

Massachusetts consistently ranks #1 in EE by ACEEE, but has doubled its dependency on gas since 2000.

WHERE DO INTERESTS ALIGN?

Approximately 30 gas plants have been built in New England since 2000.

The region now gets 50% of its power from gas, versus 10%‒15% a decade ago.

Pipeline capacity is such that during periods of cold weather the system struggles to provide power to both residential heating customers and power plants.

Two immediate areas where sharing information about consumption would be beneficial: Combined heat and power (CHP) Demand response (gas!)

WHERE DO INTERESTS ALIGN?

05/01/2023

Benefits of CHP

RESILIENCY

Fictional numbers!!

Identifying High Potential CHP

Feasible

Economical

Marketable

5000 MW

1500 MW

750 MW

Monthly gas bills used as a proxy for potential thermal load that could be served by CHP ERS and DNV GL used this approach on a joint

project in Massachusetts.

STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT

COUPLED WITH GRID NEEDS…

Fictional “marketable” CHP location points on a fictional electric grid heat

map

For illustration purposes only!

Fictional numbers!!

Identifying Most Desirable

Feasible

Economical

Marketable

Desirable

5000 MW

1500 MW

750 MW

<< 750 MW

COUPLED WITH GRID NEEDS…

For illustration purposes only!

Desirableopportunities

Fictional “marketable” CHP location points on a fictional electric grid heat

map

CHP & MICROGRIDS

Natural gas and O&M costs: $0.86M

Electricitysavings: $1M

Steam generated: $0.76M

Net benefit: $0.9M

Hypothetical microgrid

GAS DEMAND RESPONSE

Already delivering control for electric DR New generation enables control of gas load Smart meters might exist in the service

territories, but “bundling” gas DR with existing electric DR could happen via Wi-Fi t-stat…

GAS DEMAND RESPONSE

METERING INFRASTRUCTURES

THIRD-PARTY INFRASTRUCTURES

THIRD-PARTY INFRASTRUCTURES

Occupied spaces

Systems

Edge Gateway

Cloud

Residential

Commercial

THIRD-PARTY DATA HARVESTING

FunctionalFocu

s Gather

exactly what you need when you

need it

Data Focus

Gather lots of data,

organize it to be used

later

EDGE M&V

Understand needs

Gather and organize lots

of data in flexible manner

DATA HARVESTING

THANK YOU!CONTACTS:

Jeff PerkinsVice President, Business Developmentjperkins@ers-inc.com+1-978-521-2550 x207

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