City of Santa Clara Electric Utility

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Energy Efficiency Resources for Industrial
Customers

ITP Webinar
Mary Medeiros McEnroe Acting Public Benefit
Program Coordinator Silicon Valley Power August
20, 2008
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Santa Clara, CA
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Agenda

• Who is Silicon Valley Power?
• Energy Efficiency Program value
• To our customers
• To our utility
• To our community
• What we can bring to the table
• Case study
• Owens Corning

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Silicon Valley Power

• City of Santa Claras municipal electric utility
• Located 50 miles south of San Francisco
• System Statistics
• 500 MW peak
• 3000 GWh sales (70 load factor)
• 90 of sales are commercial and industrial
• 0.089 system average rate
• Diverse resources throughout Western USA
• 28.5 eligible renewable resources (Geothermal,
  wind, small hydro)
• 50 including large hydro

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Type of Customers

• High tech headquarters and RD
• Intel, Sun Micro Systems, Applied Materials,
  National Semiconductor, etc.
• Datacenters
• Manufacturing
• Solar and semiconductor
• Paperboard mills
• Fiberglass insulation

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Energy Efficiency Programsare Good for Business

• Helping customers use our product more
  efficiently
• Helps facilities compete and keeps them open
• Retains jobs, load, etc.
• Attracts new business to community
• Benefits other customers by spreading fixed costs
• Frees up resources to serve others
• Reduces carbon footprint
• Provides contact with customers
• Leads to communications on many issues

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What our customers want

• Customers primary energy concerns
• High reliability
• Environmental accountability
• Stable, competitive prices
• Speed to market

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SVP Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs

• Free Energy Audits
• Limited scope due to resources and expertise
• Lighting, HVAC, Motor VFD Rebates
• Customer Directed Rebates
• Compressed Air Management Program (CAMP)
• Keep Your Cool Gasket Replacement
• Retrocommissioning

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DOE Save Energy Now Program

• Reduce industrial energy use by 25 over 10 years
• Provides technical expertise
• No cost energy assessments
• Focus on energy-intensive systems such as
• Process heating
• Steam
• Pumps
• Fans
• Compressed air

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Case Study

• Owens Corning
• DOEs Save Energy Now program
• SVPs Compressed Air Management Program
• Multiple energy saving projects identified

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Owens Corning
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Owens Corning

• Fiberglass insulation manufacturing facility
• Major industrial customer since 1949
• Provides employment and customer diversity
• Plant competes with other manufacturers and other
  Owens Corning plants

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DOE Save Energy Now Program (Owens Corning
contd)

• Participated in Save Energy Now at corporate
  level
• At Santa Clara facility
• Fan Assessments
• Pump Assessment
• Compressed air and Other Assessments

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Fan Assessments(Owens Corning contd)

• DOE Save Energy Now Program
• Trained Owens Corning employees to perform
  assessments
• In Santa Clara
• 2 fan assessments in 2007
• 1 assessment in 2008
• 2 additional assessments planned

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Fan Assessments (Owens Corning contd)

• 2007 Fan assessments resulted in 3 projects
• VFD to Penclone (M Line)
• 361,000 kWh savings annually
• VFD to Penclone (O Line)
• 361,000 kWh savings annually
• Oven Fan VFD
• 398,000 kWh savings annually
• Projects will be complete in Fall 2008
• Additional Project considered for 2009
• Forming Fan Optimization VFD
• Potential savings of 2,296,000 kWh annually

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Pump Assessment (Owens Corning contd)

• Pump Assessment performed in 2007
• Resulted in review of treated water flows
• Installation of VFDs
• Project completed in June 2008
• Annual savings of 263,000 kWh

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Compressed Air and Other Assessments (Owens
Corning contd)

• Compressed Air
• SVPs Compressed Air Management Program (CAMP)
• Same consultant as DOE Save Energy Now Program
• Compressed Air system improvements
• 3,064,000 kWh savings annually
• Project to be complete in Fall 2008
• Process Heat Assessment
• DOE PHAST tool was not applicable to the glass
  industry

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Owens Corning contd

• DOE Save Energy Now Program Provided
• Technical expertise and assessments
• Training of Owens Corning personnel
• SVP will provide
• Over 400,000 in rebates
• SVP and City benefits
• Retained a major industrial load
• Diverse from many loads in our territory
• Retained jobs
• Santa Clara Plant case study available at
• http//www.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/
  partners/pdfs/esa-062-2.pdf

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Expand Save Energy Now Program

• Share information about program availability with
  other industrial customers
• Provide case studies to customers
• Best Practices presentation at quarterly
  customer meetings

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Thank You