RTF Small / Rural Subcommittee Quarterly Meeting Thursday, September 25 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm 1

Agenda Introductions [2:00 – 2:05pm] Measure Small/Rural Checklists[2:05 – 2:15pm] Mobile Home Decommissioning [2:15 – 2:35pm] Ideas for Remaining 2014 budget[2:35 – 2:50pm] Additional Discussion[2:50 – 3:00pm] 2

Recently Approved UES Measures – S/R Checklists Please review checklists in advance of the meeting. At the meeting, Ryan will review individual checklists by request. July, 2014 – Commercial Grocery Strip Curtains (Small Saver) measure checklistmeasurechecklist August, 2014 – Residential: New Construction – Built Green Washington and Washington Energy Star measure checklistmeasurechecklist September, 2014 – Residential - Weatherization, Single Family – Workbooks for SEEM calibration and measure assessment need to be cleaned and QC’ed – Single Family Clothes Washer – updated savings and costs to be posted soon 3

Mobile Home Decommission 4

Mobile Homes - Motivation Mobile homes problems: Energy – high usage, weatherization not effective Health/Safety – mold, lead, asbestos, temperature Quality of life Could we replace this stock with new manufactured homes? Not cost-effective as a conservation measure alone ~$3K - $8K for decommission ~$30K - $80K for new home ~1,000 – 8,000 kWh savings/year (see Sept. 18, 2013 subcommittee presentation)presentation Could energy conservation programs partner with other funding organizations? 5

Mobile Homes - Population 6 From RBSA MH report. NEEA, “RESIDENTIAL BUILDING STOCK ASSESSMENT: MANUFACTURED HOME CHARACTERISTICS AND ENERGY USE”

Mobile Homes - Objectives 1.Identify potential partner organizations Existing programs Strategies Barriers (Darla) 2.Characterize the NW mobile home population Population count Decay rate of mobile homes (BPA/RTF CAT) 7

Mobile Homes – Darla Hailey The S/R Subcommittee contracted Darla Hailey to conduct scoping research on Mobile Home Decommissioning this summer. – recently completed Masters in Social Work from University of Washington, Seattle – background in Manufactured Home sales – She has identified/contacted public and private agencies that could potentially partner with energy organizations. Identified existing programs and barriers to implementation 8

Mobile Homes - Methods Online review of programs and organization – ACEEE American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy – Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) – Family Housing Resources – Frontier Housing – Housing Preservation Grant* – Mobile Home Decommissioning & Replacement Report – Montana Mobile Home Decommissioning, Replacement and Rehab – NeighborWorks America – NeighborWorks Montana** – Next Step: Affordable Housing Done Right – rehome** * communications **Interview Online literature review [see report appendix] 9

Mobile Homes - Findings This has been done before – Collaboration with non-profit housing organizations government departments bank or mortgage company decommissioning organization – First, secure participation and funds from government agency (e.g., HUD) – Then, recruit other collaborators for decommissioning and recycling access to financing social services to home owners (walk them through the process) manufacture of the homes 10

Mobile Homes - Findings Programs tend to be small, achieve less than planned, and not last long. – Montana and Oregon programs focused primarily on decommissioning and replacement of individual mobile homes. – Initial goals: homes replaced in first year – Actual counts: 2-5 in first year Utilities have not played a major role in these programs. – Conservation programs are focused on weatherization and appliances – Not cost effective (or even effective) to weatherize pre-HUD mobile homes 11

Mobile Homes - Findings Barrier: Homeowners must be low income AND still qualify for a mortgage. – Resident needs to secure loan for new home – Financing options are often out of reach Barrier: Resident needs to own site (i.e., not RV park) – Space in mobile home parks is leased, not owned – Fortunately, only 26% of U.S. mobile homes are in parks – Remainder on private land, typically owned by homeowner – Efforts to convert parks to co-ops Enables better financing options ROCUSA provides funding for manufactured home owners to purchase their parks collectively. – Next Step then negotiates factory-direct home sales 12

Mobile Homes - Findings Existing Programs – Montana Department of Commerce - Decommission and replace – Flowing Wells (Tucson, AZ) – w/ Fair Housing Program has replaced 7 pre-1976 homes so far. – Frontier Housing (Appalachia) – New Hampshire Community Loan Fund - Funding for co-op acquisitions – reHOME: Curry County, Oregon - Decommission and replace Key issues – Lengthy process from decommission to replacement – Financing: land, owner lacking assets, high interest rates 13

Mobile Homes - Findings Potential partner organizations for NW utilities – Federal government Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) United States Department of Agriculture - Rural (USDA) – Next Steps – NeighborWorks America – Local or regional low income-housing non-profits – Manufactured homes manufacturer – Appliance companies – Private foundations: Ford, Singing for Change, US Bancorp Foundation 14

Mobile Homes – Next Steps Arrange meetings with implementers of current and past programs – What made your program successful? – What barriers limited your program’s success? – Why did you program end? – What advice can you offer to utilities interested in creating multi- agency programs? Map out what program would provide. For example, – co-op-erize MH parks – funding – lending support – decommissioning – factory direct purchasing Seek co-funders Start with easier niche to establish infrastructure and demonstrate savings (Christopher Dymond, NEEA) 15

Mobile Homes – Next Steps Meeting on October 6 amongst regional stakeholders to discuss expanding the reach of Oregon Solution’s ‘ReHome Oregon’ project. Organized by – ReHome Orgeon – PNGC Power (Margaret Ryan) – Coos-Curry Electric Co-op Attendees include – ODOE – USDA – local banking – CAP agencies – BPA (Mark Johnson) – NEEA (Christopher Dymond) Details – In Salem, OR at the PUC – Monday, October 6 th – Lunch at 11:45, Meeting from 1pm to 4pm Would someone else from the Subcommittee like to attend? 16

Remaining 2014 Work 17

Ideas for Remaining 2014 Budget Unallocated funds in 2014 work plan – can we identify a valuable small/rural project? Several requested measures are already offered as BPA qualified measures [see additional slides].additional slides Wind turbine control room measures VFDs for centrifugal pumps Research into S/R measures in other regions Other? Note that the Proposed 2015 RTF Work Plan includes funds ($30,000 for Contract RFP) for the S/R Subcommittee. 18

Ideas for Remaining 2014 Budget Wind turbine control room measures Spoke with Virginia Harman (Glacier Electric) Not much potential: – a single small control room will control many turbines. – not much load in these rooms – Some probably already have controls for conservation – Virginia reached out to turbine owners about interest no reply 19

Ideas for Remaining 2014 Budget VFDs for centrifugal irrigation pumps Spoke with Erik Boyer/Dick Stroh (BPA) Centrifugal irrigation pumps are most often not good candidates for VFDs. Typically: – used for canal water and booster pumps, not wells – have relatively flat performance curves (pressure vs flow rate) – used (by design) in applications where head pressure doesn’t change much, but flow rate does – In these applications, pumps are already operating at relatively high efficiency – VFDs introduce drive losses, but little or no efficiency gains. – For turbine pump in these applications, switching to centrifugal pump may be more effective than turbine + VFD. If head requirement varies significantly VFDs can make sense. – For example, center pivot on a slope – Vigilante Electric Coop. has had several projects like this, not common elsewhere – Best as a custom measure Thomas Elzinga (CPI), who had suggested this measure, mostly agreed with this, but will discuss with RTF CAT in more detail. – We may discuss this more for 2015 work plan 20

Ideas for Remaining 2014 Budget Research into S/R measures in other regions Subcommittee has expressed interest in funding scoping research Proposed process: – Request for Information (RFI) to solicit approaches – Chairs draft request for proposals (RFP), informed by RFI responses. – Subcommittee reviews RFP – Council posts RFP – Work to be completed by March 31, 2015 as required by 2014 budget/work plan. 21

Ideas for Remaining 2014 Budget Other ideas? 22

Additional Discussion [ ] 23

Additional Slides: BPA Qualified Measures 24

BPA Qualified Measures (July 30 to Subcommittee) RTF Small Rural Subcommittee - As discussed on our last Subcommittee call (July 10), BPA's program offering extends beyond RTF approved measures: it includes several BPA qualified measures as well. Many of these BPA qualified measures may be of interest to Small Rural utilities. Full details on all measures, including eligibility criteria and reporting requirements, are provided in the BPA Implementation Manual: _Implementation_Manual_FINAL.pdf Utilities can contact their BPA Energy Efficiency Representative (EER) or Rick Hodges for more information. 25

BPA Qualified Measures (July 30 to Subcommittee) Commercial: Note that commercial measures include: unitary AC equipment advanced rooftop control unit retrofit DHP for small (<20,000 sq ft) facilities HP conversions and upgrades web-enabled programmable thermostats windows in residential-style buildings under 5,000 sq ft heat pump water heaters demand controlled kitchen ventilation electric fryers engine block heater Also, BPA is working on small commercial weatherization measures, which they hope to have ready for the October implementation manual. 26

BPA Qualified Measures (July 30 to Subcommittee) Residential: Note that residential measures include: Pipe Insulation DHP for SF with forced air furnace DHP for MF with forced air furnace Insulated exterior doors 27

BPA Qualified Measures (July 30 to Subcommittee) Additional information on Industrial and Agricultural programs are available on the BPA website: Industrial Programs: Agricultural Programs: Includes VFDs for irrigation pumps up to 500 HP 28