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Home My WebLink About04/10/2025 - ENERGY BOARD - AGENDA - Regular MeetingENERGY BOARD REGULAR MEETING April 10, 2025 – 5:30 pm 222 Laporte Ave – Colorado Room Zoom – See Link Below 1. [5:30] CALL MEETING TO ORDER 2. [5:30] PUBLIC COMMENT 3. [5:35] APPROVAL OF MARCH 13, 2024 MINUTES 4. [5:45] NEW BOARD MEMBER INTROS (15 Min, Discussion) 5. [6:00] 2024 YEAR-END FINANCIAL UPDATE (45 Min, Discussion) Joe Wimmer, Director, Utilities Finance Gabe Stuhr, Analyst II, Finance 6. [6:45] 2024 ENERGY SERVICES PROGRAM ACHIEVEMENTS (45 min.) Michael Authier, Mechanical Engineer III 7. [7:30] OFFICER ELECTIONS (15 min.) 8. [7:45] FUTURE AGENDA REVIEW (5 min.) 9. [7:50] ADJOURNMENT Participation for this Energy Board Meeting will be in person at 222 Laporte Ave. Participation is also available online via Teams. Click or copy/paste this link into your browser: fcgov.com/energy-board-regular-meeting Online Public Participation: The meeting will be available to join beginning at 5:15 pm, April 10, 2025. 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Headline Copy Goes Here Senior Energy Services Engineer Michael Authier Fort Collins’ Energy Program Portfolio Update 04/10/2025 Headline Copy Goes Here Portfolio Overview 3 Headline Copy Goes Here Education Awareness Transparency Technical Assistance Building Code Compliance Standards Policies Financing Incentives Utility Rates Other City Fees Distributed Generation Grid Management Design Support Direct Installs Workforce Portfolio Overview Approach 5 Education Awareness Transparency Technical Assistance Building Code Compliance Standards Policies Financing Incentives Rate Design Other City Fees Distributed Generation Grid Management Design Support Direct Installs Workforce 40+ Utilities led programs Multiple methods of support Within one of four mechanisms Affecting one or more segments of the community 5 Headline Copy Goes Here Education Awareness Transparency Technical Assistance Building Code Compliance Standards Policies Financing Incentives Utility Rates Other City Fees Distributed Generation Grid Management Design Support Direct Installs Workforce Portfolio Overview Approach 6 Education Awareness Transparency Technical Assistance Building Code Compliance Standards Policies Financing Incentives Utility Billing Other City Fees Distributed Generation Grid Management Design Support Direct Installs Workforce 40+ Utilities led programs Multiple methods of support Within one of four mechanisms Affecting one or more segments of the community Example: Building Performance Standards 6 Headline Copy GoesHerePortfolioOverview Areas of Focus 7 Approach on-bill loans, partner loan programs direct installs, distributed resource management direct installs technical assistance, direct installs, incentives, retro commissioning, workforce development technical assistance, direct installs, incentives, appliance recycling, workforce development grid interconnection, incentives, rate design energy code compliance, design support benchmarking, rate design Impact Distribution DemandEnergyBudget 1% 100%_20% 3%2% 35%28% 10%8% 35%34% 5%2% 12%5% Area Financing Grid Flexibility Income Qualified Efficiency Business Efficiency Home Efficiency Distributed Generation New Construction Behavioral Efficiency Headline Copy GoesHerePortfolioOverview Programs 8 New Construction Building Energy Code - Amendments Building Energy Code - Compliance Integrated Design Assistance - Design Support Behavioral Efficiency Building Energy & Water Scoring - Benchmarking Home Energy Reports - Benchmarking Residential Time of Day Rates - Utility Billing Business Efficiency Efficiency Works Business - Assessments Efficiency Works Business - Direct Installs Efficiency Works Business - Downstream Incentives Efficiency Works Business - Midstream Incentives Efficiency Works Business - Retro commissioning Efficiency Works Multi-family - Direct Installs Efficiency Works Multi-family - Downstream Incentives Distributed Generation Commercial Solar - Interconnections Commercial Solar - Downstream Incentives Solar Purchase Power (SP3) - Feed-in Tariffs Residential Solar - Interconnections Residential Solar - Downstream Incentives Community Solar - Utility Billing Shared Solar - Utility Billing Energy Storage - Interconnections Energy Storage - Downstream Incentives Net Metering Credits - Utility Billing Grid Flexibility Peak Partners - Device Loans Peak Partners - Direct Installs Peak Partners - Device Registration Peak Partners - Device Management Home Efficiency Conservation Kits - Self-Installs Consumer Products - Downstream Incentives Consumer Products - Midstream Incentives Consumer Products - Recycling Efficiency Works Store - Midstream Incentives Epic Homes - Assessments Epic Homes - Direct Installs Epic Homes - Downstream Incentives Epic Homes - Workforce Development Epic Certificates - Benchmarking Income Qualified Efficiency Conservation Corps - Assessments Conservation Corps - Direct Installs Energy Outreach Colorado - Direct Installs Utilities Financing On-Bill Financing - Loans Partner Financing - Loans Headline Copy Goes Here Guiding Policy 9 Headline Copy Goes Here 10 Guiding Policy Our Climate Future Adopted 2021, encompassing prior: Climate Action Plan (est. 1999) Energy Policy (est. 2003) Road to Zero Waste Plan (est. 2013) Built around equity, resilience, and mitigation Developed with the community, including: Big Moves (i.e., transformational outcomes) Next Moves (i.e., actions to achieve outcomes) Goals (i.e., progress indicators, but not comprehensive of outcomes) Learn more at ourcity.fcgov.com/ourclimatefuture Headline Copy GoesHereGuidingPolicy Our Climate Future - Big Moves 11 Headline Copy Goes Here 12 Guiding Policy Our Climate Future - Next Moves Over 1,000 initial community ideas Consolidated into 450 next moves 100 in progress across inventory areas 40 energy related Grouped into pathways Learn more at ourcity.fcgov.com/ourclimatefuture Emissions Avoided vs 2005 2022 Inventory 22.6% 2030 Pathway 47.2% Electricity 27.3% Buildings 10.0% Transportation 5.8% Industry 2.3% Waste 1.6% Land Use 0.1% 2030 Inventory 69.8% Headline Copy Goes Here 13 Guiding Policy Our Climate Future - Goals Related to Energy Building Energy Code Advance efficiency, indoor environmental quality, installed performance, and readiness for distributed energy resources, through regular three-year code updates and adoption within one year of new IECC issuance Electric Grid Reliability Maintain existing Utilities distribution reliability metrics Electric Grid Flexibility Support deployment of distributed energy resources to achieve a bidirectional demand flexibility capacity of 5% of peak loads by 2030 Learn more at ourcity.fcgov.com/ourclimatefuture Headline Copy Goes Here 14 Guiding Policy Our Climate Future - Goals Related to Energy Energy Efficiency Between 2021 and 2030, reduce the Community's forecasted electricity use by 20% and natural gas use by 10% Renewable Energy Provide the Community 100% renewable electricity by 2030, with 5% from local sources Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduce the Community’s GHG inventory to 50% below 2005 by 2026, 80% below 2005 by 2030, and carbon neutral by 2050 Learn more at ourcity.fcgov.com/ourclimatefuture Headline Copy Goes Here 15 Guiding Policy Other Relevant Policies Platte River’s 2018 Resource Diversification Policy Proactively work toward the goal of reaching a 100% non-carbon resource mix by 2030, while maintaining Platte River’s three pillars of providing reliable, environmentally responsible and financially sustainable electricity State of Colorado’s 2021 Clean Energy Plan Any clean energy plan at the public utilities commission that, as filed, will achieve at least an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions caused by the utility's Colorado retail electricity sales by 2030 relative to 2005 levels Learn more at prpa.org/generation and leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-198 Headline Copy Goes Here Community Progress 43 Headline Copy Goes Here 44 Community Progress Outcome Areas Building Energy Code Electricity Grid Reliability Grid Flexibility Affordability Efficiency Renewable Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions Natural Gas Headline Copy Goes Here New Home Energy Use per Built Area by Energy Code Cycle kBtu/ft 45 Community Progress Building Energy Code Local energy code compliance in new construction at 73% in 2015 study, now around 82% Energy Code Adoption Timeline Headline Copy Goes Here 46 Community Progress Electric Grid Reliability Headline Copy Goes Here 47 Community Progress Electric Grid Reliability Headline Copy Goes Here 48 Community Progress Electric Grid Flexibility Bidirectional demand flexibility capacity at 2.6% of 2024 peak demand 2.425.49Directional 7.91MWAbsolute Resource Thermostats Resistive Water Heaters Grid-Interactive Water Heaters Electric Vehicles Batteries Registered Devices 1,500 2,000 100 75 0 Available Capacity (MW) ShedSink 1.500.00 0.805.00 0.040.30 0.080.19 0.000.00 Headline Copy Goes Here 49 Community Progress Electricity Affordability Headline Copy Goes Here 50 Community Progress Electricity Affordability Headline Copy Goes Here 51 Community Progress Electricity Efficiency Headline Copy Goes Here 52 Community Progress Renewable Energy Headline Copy Goes Here Thank You! 53