Green Energy Options for Connecticut Campuses

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Green Energy Optionsfor Connecticut Campuses

• Environment Northeast
• Connecticut Clean Energy Project
• New Haven
• 28 March 2003

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About Us

• Environmental research and advocacy
• Conn. Clean Energy Project
• Energy Efficiency Project
• Diesel Clean Up Project
• Climate Change Roadmap for Conn.
• 28 Grand Street, Hartford, CT 06106
• 860.246.7121

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Clean Energy Project

• Collaborative
• Environment Northeast
• SmartPower Connecticut
• Clean Water Action, and
• Inter-religious Eco-Justice Network
• Customer Pledge 20 renewables by 2010
• Activities
• Technical assistance for large customers about
  green power options
• Link between customers and suppliers
• GreenStar Connecticut Public Recognition Project

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Climate Change Roadmap for Conn.

• 75 reduction of state GHGs from current levels
  by 2050 to arrive at 2.83 MMTC/yr
• 13-17 MMTC must be cut from 2050 levels

- NOT incremental
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Green Power 101 (fuel mix)

• Consumers on default Standard Offer service are
  assigned the Residual Mix of the New England
  power pool.
• less than 1/10th of 1 comes from Class I
  renewables like wind, solar, and landfill
  methane.
• NEPOOL GIS, results from 2002, 2nd Quarter.

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Green Power 101 (emissions)

• Every 1000 kWh of the New England residual mix is
  associated with significant pollution (using
  rates from Q2 2002)
• 1,227 lb. of CO2
• 12.5 lb. of NOx
• 6 lb. of SO2

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Green Power 102 (New Renewables)

• Special Needs of New Renewables
• Take advantage of distributed clean energy needs
• Large, creditworthy, long-term customers
• Special Role of Universities
• Campus layout, heat and power needs
• Large, creditworthy, long-term customer

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Green Power 102(Developers and Suppliers)

• Developers
• Conn. Clean Energy Fund
• Green Retailers Active in New England
• Sterling Planet
• Community Energy
• SunPower Electric
• NativeEnergy
• EAD Environmental
• Brokers
• EvoMarkets
• Natsource
• Green Standard Offer Option ???
• Bundled Green Power

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Green Power 201(Aggregation)

• Assume 50 million kWh/year for avg. campus
• Assume 4 campuses
• 3 30-45k extra per campus, using todays costs

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Progress in Conn.

• Conn. College
• Yale FES and Yale University
• Immediate certificate purchase
• Near Term opportunity to develop new renewables
• Longer Term Distributed Generation
• UConn.
• Wesleyan
• Trinity
• ECSU / CSU System

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Schools Gone Green

• Allegheny College
• American University
• Bucknell
• Carnegie Mellon
• Catholic University
• Coastal Carolina
• College of the Atlantic
• Connecticut College
• Dickinson College
• Franklin Marshall

• Gannon University
• Gettysburg College
• Juniata College
• Penn State
• Penn. Syst. of Higher Ed
• SUNY Buffalo
• Swarthmore
• U. Colorado
• U.Penn
• Wesleyan

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Next Steps

• Green Power
• Set goals, establish a decisionmaking process
• Look at on-site DG opportunities
• Look at green power options
• Consider aggregation with peers
• Chicago Climate Exchange
• Challenge commit by Earth Day?
• Call Environment Northeast
• 860.246.7121