Building an Efficient Boiler Program from the Ground Up

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Building an Efficient Boiler Program from the
Ground Up

• ENERGY STAR Participants Meeting
• Ottawa, May 11, 2005

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Presentation Outline

• Introduction
• Building from the ground up
• (from the Efficient Boiler Program perspective)
• Background Research
• Program Design
• Program Implementation Marketing
• Conclusions

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Introduction

• Terasen Inc.
• formerly BC Gas
• 4.6 Billion in assets
• 2046 employees
• traded on TSX
• provides 60 of energy in B.C.
• Terasen Gas Inc.
• wholly owned subsidiary
• 875,000 customers
• 48,000 km of pipeline
• 150 Communities

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Introduction

• Demand Side Management (DSM)
• Definition Modify or influence the way customers
  use energy
• DSM programs since 1991
• Programs must pass cost-benefit tests
• Partnering has facilitated increased DSM activity

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Introduction

• 2005 New Programs Forecast Annual Reductions

65,000 GJ
170,000 GJ
21,000 GJ
72,000 GJ
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Background Research

• Commercial Boiler Market Share in B.C. (Estimated)

10
20
70
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Background Research

• Understand market before program design

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Background Research

• Hearing concerns Hearing barriers

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Program Design

• Use program criteria to improve efficiency

• Standards (eg., CSA 4.9, BTS2000)
• - consider future U.S. and Canadian standards
• - understand mechanics of different standards
• - ability of manufacturers to certify
• Technical Program Requirements
• Examples
• - Forced or induced draft burner
• - Fully modulating turndown ratio lt 50
• - Condensing Boiler inlet water temp not to
  exceed 49oC
• - Intermittent ignition

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Building a New Program

• Program Implementation Marketing
• Consider requirements for unique markets
• Examples from Boiler Program
• One-on-one marketing
• Support materials and case studies to engineers
  mechanical contractors
• Pre-installation review approval
• Program specific training and seminars for
  builders and developers
• Industry advertisements
• Technical support

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Efficient Boiler Program

• Conclusions
• Highly technical longer program development
• Highly technical Industry may tend to wait
  until launch dates to actually review materials
  carefully
• For new programs in competitive industries,
  information is not necessarily free flowing
• The devil is in the details!

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Efficient Boiler Program

• For more information, please contact
• Gordon Monk, P.Eng.
• Energy Utilization Manager
• Terasen Gas Inc.
• Tel. [phone]
• E-mail Gordon.Monk_at_terasengas.com