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A Common Purpose: Aligning Community Stakeholders to Address Gaps in Underserved Markets
May 17th 9:30-10:45 AM
Table Top Discussion
1.What do you see as the biggest challenge to engaging stakeholders in the sector you have had the least success engaging?
2.With what sector(s) have you had the most success engaging?
3.What have you found most helpful for engaging partners to address gaps in underserved communities?
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Panelists
Emily Schapira, Philadelphia Energy Authority Amy Jewel, City Energy Project/City of Chicago Michael Walton, Green Spaces/City of Chattanooga Michael DiRamio, US Department of Energy
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Philadelphia Energy Campaign & Utility Partnerships May 17, 2017
Emily Schapira, Executive Director
[email protected] · O: 215-686-4483 · C: 215-203-2906
The Plan • Campaign Overview • Energy as a vehicle for other
objectives • Utility Partnerships in Philadelphia
Youthbuild Charter School, Solar Installation Training Program
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Philadelphia Energy Campaign Overview
• $1 billion investment over 10 years in energy efficiency and clean energy projects, leveraging public and private dollars
• Will create 10,000 jobs, reduce expenses and preserve housing for 25,000 households, cut utility costs and improve business stability for 2,500 small businesses
• Adapting models that work locally, globally and across sectors to applications and scale that have real impact
• Key Concept: Scaling Up
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Energy as a Vehicle
1. Poverty Reduction a. CNT Report: 25% reduction possible in Philadelphia via
household expense reduction + job creation (http://www.cnt.org/urban-opportunity-agenda)
b. Preserving affordable housing stock
2. Neighborhood-Driven Economic Development a. Driving local and diversity hiring b. Food Trust Corner Stores project: higher utilities than rent
3. Improving customers’ ability to pay 4. Bringing in Outside Investor Groups
a. Energy lenders and Climate Change investors nationwide, looking for projects to address carbon reduction
5. Healthy Buildings, Cost Reduction for City and Schools 6. Helping us meet our City sustainability goals
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Campaign Overview 1. Completed initial 6-month planning period
• Networked over 200 local and national stakeholders to engage in the process • Developed key partnerships for initial pilots including utilities, lenders
(including those new-to-Philly investors), energy services companies, property owners, city programs, corporations and non-profits
2. Pilot Development, Modeling, Testing • In pilot and program development across all sectors
• Multi-family, small business pilots, Solarize Philly up and running • PHA program in audit phase, contracted with JCI • School District of Philadelphia committed to summer efficiency pilot plus summer solar installer training • City Council Housing Preservation Initiative • Administration energy projects (rec centers, libraries, police & fire stations, Art Museum, prisons,
streetlighting and more)
3. Scale up pilots in each sector (through 2026)
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Utility Partnership – Focus on PECO
• PECO Solar Stakeholder Collaborative • Unprecedented stakeholder engagement • Solar Developer Meetings regularly • Centennial Parkside CDC • Solarize Philly
• Supporting Multi-Family Affordable Housing and Small Business Efficiency • CMC as the lead contractor • Providing data, feedback, assessment
• Cross-Utility Conservation Pilot • PECO, PGW & PWD under one contractor • 20 single-family homes • Economies of scale for auditing, demonstrating collaboration
• LED Streetlighting
Utility Partnership – Focus on PECO
• How we developed the relationship • Why we developed the relationship • Why this time was different (stakeholder engagement!) • How we support PECO, and how PECO supports us • What we do when we don’t agree
But first, the whole story…
PECO Solar Developer Technical Advisory Group January 2017
• line map • smart inverters (4kV line, voltage spikes) • single meter testing • interconnection application process • online application • hiring & reorganization
Solarize Philly Launch – April 27, 2017
“We faced a lot of pressure, but we are a better company for the work we’ve done
to make PECO a leader on solar.” -- Tony Gay, Vice President, Government & External
Affairs at PECO
Utility Partnership – Focus on PECO
• How we developed the relationship (communication!) • Why we developed the relationship (mutual benefit) • Why this time was different (stakeholder engagement!) • How we support PECO, and how PECO supports us (operational relationship) • What we do when we don’t agree
Students visit the solar installation at the Crane Arts Bldg in Kensington (PC: Solar States/Youthbuild)
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PEA at OIC Philadelphia, Low-Income Residential Working Group
The energy counselors of Philly’s Neighborhood Energy Centers at ECA
Councilwoman Blackwell and Stefanie Seldin of Rebuilding Together at their April 2016 Block Build in Mantua
Contact Us
City Hall, Room 566 215-686-4483
Emily Schapira
www.philaenergy.org
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greenspaceschattanooga.com
Advancing the sustainability of living, working, and building in Chattanooga and the surrounding region.
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With short staff and a large challenge, how do you build a new energy program?
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RESOURCE MAPPING
EPB
City of Chattanooga green|spaces
TVA Powershare
LIHEAP
Rental Rehab
Chattanooga
Housing Authority
Solsmart
Empower
Chattanooga
University of
Tennessee at
Chattanooga
Direct Assistance
Agencies
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Housing Authority Resident
Housing Choice Voucher Resident
Elderly Homeowner New Homeowner
Traditional Renter
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Energy Efficiency
Pay as You Save (Large Scale) Microfinance Green and Healthy Homes
Clean Energy
Community Solar
LIHEAP/Agencies Community Solar Sheds
Church/Business Virtual Net
Metering
DOE Accelerator Clean Energy
in Low Income Communities
green|spaces City of Chattanooga EPB
UTC
Engineering Business Interior Design Architecture (UTK)
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RESOURCE MAPPING
• EPB
• City of Chattanooga
• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Benwood Foundation
• Lyndhurst Foundation
• Footprint Foundation
• Boys & Girls Club
• CARTA
• Catholic Charities of Chattanooga
• Causeway
• CCHDO
• Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
• Chattanooga Kids on the Block
• Chattanooga Gas (AGL)
• Chattanooga Public Library
• Chattanooga Organized for Action
• Consumer Credit Counseling
• Family Promise
• Girls Inc.
• Glass House Collective
• Habitat for Humanity
• La Paz
• Legal Aid
• Mark Making
• Metropolitan Ministries
• Partnership for Families, Children & Adults
• Salvation Army
• Trust for Public Land
• United Way
• Urban League of Chattanooga
• Volunteers in Medicine
EMPOWER CHATTANOOGA PARTNERS
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15% ($23/mo)
Average savings for those that acted (weather normalized)
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MEMBERSHIP LUNCH & LEARNS
SUSTAINABILITY PROFESSIONALS OF GREATER
CHATTANOOGA
GREEN SCHOOLS SUMMIT & DESIGN
THINKING
ROOFTOP HOP
MAIN X24
BUILDING RECOGNITION IN CHATTANOOGA
(BRIC) AWARDS
CONSULTING/SPEAKING
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Building on the Success of Low-Income Energy
Efficiency
Clean Energy for Low Income Communities Accelerator Department of Energy
Better Buildings Challenge 2017
May 15, 2017
Presented by Amy Jewel of City Energy Project, representing City of Chicago
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• Launched in 2012-Partnership brings together utilities and non-profit implementers for a 1 stop shop for residential property owners
• Partners include: ComEd, Peoples Gas, Chicago Bungalow Association, Elevate Energy, and Community Investment
Corporation • In 2012 the utilities and non-profit implementers were not coordinating, it was a confusing experience for
residents/landlords • Objective was coordinated outreach, materials, website, and leverage local and federal funds together for greater
impact • Integrated in 2015 with smart grid consumer education for a broader energy education outreach approach • To date partners have completed 23,000+ single family and multi-family retrofits • Greater alignment has been achieved between utilities and consumer advocates on low income energy efficiency in
Illinois thanks to a lot of hard work and additional legislation • In June 2017, these programs will be fully aligned under the utility and the final program details are being settled right
now
Retrofit Chicago Residential Partnership
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Outreach Efforts
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PARTNERS
UNDERSTANDING HOUSING STOCK
• Chicago has over 80,000 bungalows • 3 out of 4 Chicagoans live in a multi-family housing
setting • 75% of those MF buildings were built before 1942 • About 30% of the multi-family stock is made up of 2-4
flat buildings • About 29% of the multi-family stock is 5+ units built
before 1942 All of these different segments requires a different
value proposition for energy efficiency Elevate Energy has recently published an extensive research report and analysis on Chicago’s multi-family housing stock
and a guide for other cities to replicate their process in other cities and counties.
http://www.elevateenergy.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/Chicago-
Multifamily-Segmentation.pdf
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods so critical to the success of residential energy efficiency programs has been organizations who serve as conduits to both big “A” for Affordable housing and “a” affordable housing or naturally occurring affordable housing
The CHA manages HCV or section 8 programs and is a key connector to those landlords
Neighborhood Housing Services is a key connector for low and moderate income homeowners
Chicago Bungalow Association connects with tens of thousands of bungalow & vintage home owners and manages EE programs directly
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What’s next in Chicago
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
• In Illinois, starting on June 2017, all energy efficiency programs will role under the management of the local utilities
• This provides an opportunity for seamless
alignment for services delivery for all residential programs but especially for low income energy efficiency programs
• This alignment will ideally make it easier for
homeowners and landlords to easily participate
RENEWABLE ENERGY
• Thanks to new legislation, the state of Illinois will launch low income solar energy programs in the next couple of years
• Carved out in the legislation are programs for community solar and low income residents participation in community solar; low income roof-top solar, workforce development in solar installation for environmental justice communities, and a myriad of other programs that can benefit low-mod income residents
• Currently, these programs are being drafted and designed for regulatory submission later this year and the City is playing an active role in the input gathering process to ensure good outcomes for residents
• The potential exists to coordinate with previous recipients and future recipients of low-income energy efficiency programs
• The pipeline for customers, ease of marketing outreach, and other assets from existing energy efficiency networks can be leveraged for solar program deployment