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M E M O R A N D U M
DATE: October 26, 2016
TO: Mayor Troxell and Councilmembers
FROM: Lisa Rosintoski, Customer Connections Manager
Tim McCollough, Light and Power Operations Manager
THROUGH: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Kevin R. Gertig, Utilities Executive Director
RE: Energy Board Recommendation to Fund Program Coordinator Supervisor Position
This memo is in response to Mayor Pro Tem Horak’s Leadership Planning Team meeting request to
provide a response to the October 13 Energy Board memo supporting the unfunded offer 7.19 - Program
Coordinator Supervisor, and recommends defunding Offer 5.26 - Distributed Battery Pilot to pay for the
supervisor position.
Bottom Line:
Utilities staff reviewed Energy Board’s recommendation and agrees funding the Program Coordinator
Supervisor position does achieve a timely, direct alignment in managing the current and proposed
programs which support the goals related to the Energy Policy, Water Efficiency Plan, and Road to
2020, versus the Distributed Battery Pilot Program, which can be managed towards the 2030 goal as
technology evolves. Staff also recognized Offer 5.26 did not incorporate funding for an internal
resource to support the battery pilot. However, funding the Program Coordinator Supervisor position
will require funds being allocated from Light and Power, Water, Wastewater and Stormwater, which can
be accomplished through the use of Available Reserves from each of the three wet utilities, and
redirecting the funds from Offer 5.26 - Battery Pilot Program in Light and Power.
Summary:
The anticipated impact to each utility service fund is as follows:
2017 Salary 2018 Salary Allocation
L&P $ 35,367.20 $ 39,669.96 44%
Water $ 31,348.20 $ 35,162.01 39%
Wastewater $ 5,626.60 $ 6,311.13 7%
Stormwater $ 8,038.00 $ 9,015.90 10%
Total $ 80,380.00 $ 90,159.00 100%
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Below are the overviews of each offer.
Program Coordinator Supervisor (Offer 7.19):
Position expands the promotion and administration of both energy and water efficiency/conservation
programs and projects to achieve the goal reductions by 2020 for energy and 2030 for water by
increasing participation in the existing 17 programs, and future programs by 25%. The position will
enable program execution and metric tracking to manage the enhancement or exit strategies for existing
programs, as well as the verified business case analysis for maintaining a prioritized innovation pipeline
of programs and projects with the Program Management Office (PMO). A classified 1.0 FTE Program
Coordinator Supervisor will:
i) execute and manage program monitoring with metrics of program plans with project
managers;
ii) develop and manage with the project manager the program and portfolio monitoring to
determine the criteria for enhancing or exiting a program;
iii) align with the community and City on the participation in events that promotes awareness
and participation in programs, with a goal of 25% increase by 2020; and
iv) create and execute with PMO the innovation pipeline that contains a robust amount of
programs and projects that can be prioritized for execution to manage goal alignment
with the Climate Action Plan, Energy Policy and Water Efficiency Plan based on the
customer’s price point.
Distributed Battery Pilot Program (Offer 5.26):
Offer provides funding for a feasibility and pilot study that will examine how to incorporate distributed
storage (batteries) into the electric distribution grid. The goal of the study is to:
1. Determine what utility scale storage technology is available
2. Work through the engineering details of incorporating the storage on the grid
3. Install a pilot battery on the grid
4. Analyze the costs and benefits realized from the pilot
This study is needed because the energy plan and the Climate Action Plan (CAP) call for dramatically
increasing the amount of distributed renewable on the electric grid. Batteries will need to be
incorporated into the grid in order to manage these levels of distributed generation, i.e. match when
renewable energy is supplied to when energy is demanded by customers. The data from this analysis
will also be used to update the capital expenditure model which shows how customer demand can be
met at the lowest capital costs. Thus this study will allow for the integration of CAP modeling with long
range capital planning.
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