Efficiency Vermont your resource for energy savings

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Efficiency Vermont
your resource for energy
savings

• The Economic Benefits of
• Energy Efficiency

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What Is Efficiency Vermont?

• The first energy efficiency utility in the USA
• Created by order of theVermont Public Service
  Board
• Performance-based contract administered by a
  Vermont Non-Profit Entity

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Efficiency Vermont Mission

• Our sole mission is to help all Vermonters save
  energy, reduce energy costs and protect our
  environment.

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Efficiency Vermont Goals

• Three basic goals drive Efficiency Vermonts
  initiatives and milestones
• Electrical (MWh) Savings
• Total Resource Benefits
• Market Transformation

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Efficiency Vermont Serves

• All electric rate payers in Vermont, including...
• Commercial, Industrial, Municipal
• Residential
• Farmers
• Mixed Commercial Residential Sites

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Energy Efficiency

• Benefits beyond lower energy costs
• Improved value
• Lower life-cycle costs
• Creates a more comfortable and healthier
  environment
• Increases profits and productivity

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Basic Service Sectors

• Business Energy Services
• Energy Efficient Equipment
• New Construction
• Residential Energy Services
• Energy Efficient Products
• New Construction
• Targeted High Use

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Energy Efficiency Projects with Businesses

• Over 970 Commercial Projects
• Over 2.4 Million in Financial Incentives to
  Businesses
• Over 35,000 Megawatt hours of Electricity Saved
• Over 24.1 Million in Total Resource Benefits

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Energy Efficiency Projects with Residents

• Over 52,000 Residential Projects
• Over 4.6 Million in Financial Incentives to
  Residents
• Over 36,000 Megawatt hours of Electricity Saved
  Annually
• Over 24 Million Dollars in Total Resource
  Benefits

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Technical Services

• Design Assistance
• Computer Modeling
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Product Sourcing
• Collaboration

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Financial Incentives

• Lighting - Statewide standard
• Three-phase motors - Regional standard
• HVAC - Regional standard
• Refrigeration - Custom
• Process equipment - Custom
• Other electrical end-use equipment
• Design Studies (3rd Party)

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Prescriptive Rebates

• Commercial
• - Lighting
• - HVAC
• - Electric Motors
• Residential
• -Lighting
• -Appliances
• -Energy Star Homes

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Custom Projects

• Identify efficient alternatives or approaches
• Custom incentive packages
• Establish baseline product/design
• Assist with cost/benefit evaluation
• Assist with presentations to boards or the
  community

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Sample Project 1Large Wholesale Grocer

• Chiller Quick Close Freezer Doors
• Financial Incentive 110,000
• 1,325,000 annual kWh savings
• 140K in Annual Operating Cost Savings

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Sample Project 2Plastics Manufacturer

• Equipment Replacement-Dryer installation
• 3000 Financial Incentive
• 69,000 annual kWh savings
• 145,520 Operating Cost Savings in scrap
  reduction, labor and energy savings

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Sample Project 35 Ski Areas - 9 projects total

• Snowmaking Tower Guns, Lighting upgrades,
  compressed air, variable speed drive and motors
• 207,000 Total Financial Incentives
• 383,000 Annual Operating Cost Savings
• 4.62 million in Total Resource Benefits

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Other Positive Results

• Weve helped 1 of every 10 electric utility
  customers lower their energy costs
• Thats over 30,900 Vermonters receiving over 20
  million in lifetime savings
• Demand-Side-Management keeps dollars in the state
  of Vermont
• Saved an estimated 24 million in fossil fuels
• 125 lighting retailers 70 appliance dealers
  sell ENERGY STAR products in Vermont

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Public Value of Efficiency Vermont Services
Courtesy of Richard Cowart
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Contracted vs. Open-Market

• When demand exceeds the capacity at the
  contracted rate...
• Peak Cost for NE Grid in July 2001 was 1.00 per
  KWh

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Economic Benefit of Efficiency Measures

• Last year, Efficiency Vermont saved electricity
  at a cost of 2.5 cents/kWh while it cost an
  average of 4 cents/kWh for utilities to purchase
  or generate electricity.
• Were like an invisible power plant--
• but less expensive

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How to reach us

• Efficiency Vermont
• 255 S. Champlain Street
• Burlington, Vermont 05401-4717
• _______________________
• [phone] x-1088
• [phone] FAX