Industry Questions on Applying a LCFS to Residential Heating

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Industry Questions on Applying a LCFS to
Residential Heating Hot Water Systems

• How does a LCFS interact with current and future
  Federal, regional and state building energy
  efficiency and environmental ?
• If fuel switching is employed based on CO2e alone
  how do you account for
• Keeping the life-cycle emissions data current
• Appliance efficiency differences
• Impacts of other air pollutants on the region
• Additional infrastructure costs
• Homeowner conversion costs
• Projections of fuel supply, demand and cost
• Other life cycle emissions impacts
• Required homeowner lifestyle changes
• Impact on current RD efforts

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Liquid Fuels Industry Plans

• There is no silver bullet

• Multiple energy sustainable pathways are required

• The industry has decided to move to ultralow
  sulfur fuel as soon as practicable

• The industry is committed to accelerate the
  blending with sustainable biofuels -
  infrastructure, end-use storage and regulatory
  approvals

• The industry is accelerating the use of solar
  thermal integrated liquid fueled hydronic systems
  to increase fuel use reduction while maintaining
  the reliability and convenience of stored liquid
  fuels

• In the future liquid fuels can redefine ZEBs to
  include ZCBs (zero carbon footprint buildings)

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Liquid Fuels Industry Plans
Near-Term Carbon Footprint Reduction Pathway
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Liquid Fuels Industry Plans
ZEB zero fossil energy buildings ZCB zero
carbon footprint buildings
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Issues to Consider

• Should we push each fuel to Improve - Gas,
  Liquid, Solid, Electrical
• In an area like Heating Fuels where there are
  Five robust competitors, would we all benefit by
  encouraging each fuel to improve
• Should we consider incentivizing a particular
  fuel, when no fuel today has shown they can
  achieve the objectives, e.g. get to the finish
  line very green, very clean, sustainable, very
  cheap, and available to all.
• Keeping all Four Distribution Systems Robust
  allows for a Continuing Race in each of these
  areas, which benefits consumers both
  environmentally and economically.
• We can also manipulate other aspects of the race,
  including efficiency if we do not go all in on
  carbon content of fuel