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hello everyone and thank you very much for joining us today I'm Diane Nouveau as Cary introduced and also with me today is Ryan and swing of the office of energy demand and Nancy digits of the office of energy demand and we're really pleased to share with you the progress and results of the work to improve energy management at state buildings and facilities we look forward to your questions and please submit them to Kerry as she noted at the beginning just for some context let me explain that the crimes of state statutes have there are several state statutes related to energy management at state facilities and the majority of those authorities require and invest in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection the responsibility for improving energy management at state facilities in collaboration with other state agencies for today we just want to highlight some of the progress from 2017 we've achieved some notable milestones in our ability to analyze energy consumption and spending for all state agencies and we're working to make that information available both to the public and to the individual State and agencies and Nancy and lion of our office have actually worked one-on-one with many state agencies to enable those agencies to actually see how much energy they use from all different commodity types and how to track the trends associated with energy consumption we also have purchased electricity supply on behalf of all executive branch agencies as well as the office as well as legislative management and judicial branches in some quasi public agencies as well we also have made some progress on a very large energy management project on a campus at the Connecticut Valley Hospital and we will update you on bond funding for efficiency upgrades there's many state facilities lots of folks may wonder where they're located and of course they're located throughout the state with some centralized areas but this this is an important thing to know because when we talk about saving energy we're talking about saving energy all across the state there's 70 million square feet of state structures most of those structures are owned there's over 3,800 structures that does include a number of smaller smaller buildings and structures and that are not large we also break it down by buildings over a certain size as well we also do have some buildings that are least almost 3 million square feet what's important to know about this government sector meaning federal state and municipal is that the building footprint in the commercial and industrial energy consumption sector it's pretty large that it's between 11 and 15 percent depending if you're talking about electricity or natural gas the actual consumption and use of energy by this sector is a good chunk of both the overall energy consumption in the state part reason why it's super important some of the advantage is having centralized energy planning in a state energy office as we have here in Connecticut the state energy offices in the Bureau of energy and technology policy at the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection it previously was with the office of policy and management and all the states throughout the country have state energy offices and some of them like Connecticut are housed in their environmental protection agencies so we find it that there are many advantages of having some Troyes energy planning on behalf of all state agencies and there's a number of state statutes as I mentioned earlier that compels deep to improve energy management the reason why it's important to plan is we want to be able to track our progress toward achieving environmental goals and energy management goals related to energy consumption and for that reason we put together a platform that allows us to look on an agency basis and on a building basis how much energy is being used we're looking at analyzing energy trends over time and with seasons and based on groupings of different buildings we have an example that we can have an agency look at all of their facilities across across their across the state and look on a building by building basis or campus basis or an agency basis the total amount of energy accounts by the total amount of energy when you break it down by commodity means you have to look at the number of accounts so we have over 3800 electricity accounts and over a thousand natural gas accounts across all state facilities we also have delivered fuel water and we also have electricity provided by municipal by municipal electricity cooperative so when you look at it in full we have over six hundred eleven million kilowatt hours that we're consuming on a statewide basis we're looking to improve the data quality of this information by getting better information from the delivered fuels we don't have all of that electronically available at this point so we're making estimates about the amount for the fuels but we have a pretty accurate understanding of how much electricity and natural gas is being consumed on a statewide basis the when we break it down by the different branches of government the executive branch is the first section of this chart on your screen with over there close to thirty eight million being spent on energy for the executive branch on an annual basis and for the judicial and legislative branches you can see they have a far smaller number of buildings but they are still a significant amount of inter consumption about half of the state's energy consumption is actually through the universities the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut state colleges and universities including the community colleges and that's the category called higher education the real estate when you break it down in this way just to look at it in a slightly different view and being our computer system doesn't it doesn't accept percentages when you look at it but we have that available the largest the largest users of electricity as I mentioned are the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut state colleges and university and then when you add in the Technical High School System it means about half of the state's facilities are part of the education system our annual energy spending when you look at it from that point of view is when you take out the University of Connecticut and the state colleges and university the largest build are through facilities from the Department of Correction the Department of Transportation and these facilities of course Department of Correction is a 24/7 operation Department of Transportation as many facilities across the state when you look at the average annual energy cost per square foot or the average energy cost per square foot in state buildings it's three dollars and 93 cents and as I mentioned earlier we have over 3,800 buildings but there are 243 that are more than 10,000 square feet so these are the bulk of the larger buildings that our attention is mostly focused on it's interesting to note and this is not 100% complete data but just as we move towards having more complete data you can see that the bulk of the spending is on electricity although the bulk of consumption is actually on natural gas so this is still work-in-progress data we're still gathering information from delivered fuels across many different state agencies but fundamentally at this time based on the information available to date we're at a point where electricity costs are about 80% of energy cost and natural gas usage is about half of the energy use statewide for state agencies here are some examples of buildings that have high energy cost and what's interesting of course is that there's such a variety of different types of buildings you can see on this chart this is sorted by the annualized cost but there's also a column for square feet so some of the costs don't necessarily correlate with their square footage you can say you see aircraft hangars for example using a lot of energy but not necessarily being as large as the Correctional Facility that's the second on the list there for the Department of Correction the armoury buildings are large users being the largest energy user for the Department of Energy Environment Protection is a fish hatchery facility which is essentially a water treatment plant you think of it that way and so it's a variety of different buildings there's power plants there's gymnasiums there's prisons there's office buildings there's residential barracks there's a whole variety of different buildings in the portfolio of state buildings and each of them have different needs and different priorities for making energy investments another way to look at this set of data is on a graph again the power plan so the largest users of energy not surprisingly and prisons and courthouses are big players and energy consumption here's an example of how power plants tend to come up first when you sort by cost per square foot and then Correctional gymnasium campus buildings for community colleges are some of the larger users as well as well as a very large office building and Hart Road at this point we've benchmarked about 27 million square feet at 276 state buildings benchmarking is an important way to help prioritize what buildings can be worked on in terms of energy management upgrades we have conducted this benchmarking using the US EPA portfolio manager which many of our municipalities are using as well and recent upgrades the portfolio manager allow it to understand certain types of facilities such as weak water treatment facilities and is a constantly improving system our electronic data flow that we're getting from our utilities flows both to portfolio manager these days as well as to the energy analytical platform that we've put in place to work with our state buildings and now we just want to recap some work that was accomplished in 2017 specifically related to upgrades going on around the state the small scale projects that we've been undertaking through a utility administered program that's a turnkey program has been a very successful way in the last few years for us to get very good results we are seeing quick turnarounds in savings all of these have paybacks of less than all of these have paybacks of less than four or five years and it's been a very helpful way to get some of the simpler types of upgrades accomplished at a variety of different buildings and this is just a breakdown about which agencies have participated in these and this is possible through a master agreement that we have in place with the utilities and our Department of Administrative Services in terms of the funding for many of the energy upgrades of state buildings we've been working with bond funding over the course of the last few years this is based on bond authorizations that the Department or OPM has received since 2000 seven and they add up to about 88 million over the course of this decade and by January of 2017 actually all of that funding had been allocated and expended so we had no new funds to work with in 2017 whatsoever of all of the bond funding was completely expended as of January 2017 so we did not have any new funds available for mid-sized projects in 2017 but for the ones that were already underway with good funding that had been allocated to them we were able to move towards completion on additional projects and the payback is a very very good payback for these larger scale projects with about a six year of payback when you total up projects over the course of the last few years from those mid-sized projects there are 44 projects that we now have one years worth of data so when we took a look at that one years worth of data to see what type of savings we were seeing we see that the cost is before of over 16 million have been reduced to almost 14 million that's the chart on the left and the BTUs savings is a significant for those buildings with commensurate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions just to provide an example to give you a feel for the different types of buildings our building upgrades that are going on here's an example from the Robinson Correctional Center in Enfield and that was simply an important HVAC upgrade heating venting air conditioning is very important in prison centers and one of these facilities had very outdated rooftop units and those were replaced that upgrade is saved over 3,000 mm BTUs and we are seeing over 143 thousand dollars in savings annually from the savings and operating cost avoided operating cost another example of a large-scale project is at the campus of the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown we have a website you can click on that shows the details of the different jobs and greenhouse gases gas reduction achievements as well as the project savings as the project goes towards completion we anticipate about 1/3 reduction in energy use through all of the different upgrades occurring campus-wide and this is an example of some of the information we've made available on that website so you can break down the estimated energy savings and and the greenhouse gas emission reductions as well one of the things that we have done through Authority for Department of Administrative Services with health front beep is to competitively purchase our electricity supply for all state agencies and so we've done that on behalf of all branches of state government and through a competitive request for proposals process we completed in 2017 we achieved a price well below the standard offer pricing and that has saving the state a significant amount of money we've ended up extending that contract for state fiscal year nineteen so we'll continue to see savings achieved by having pricing below the standard offer the percent of class one renewables is sixteen point three one percent when you look at it over 17 and 18 for fiscal year another thing we've been working on through through our office of energy demand is focusing on the workforce needs for the clean energy industry specifically the energy efficiency industry and in 2017 in cooperation with the Connecticut business an industry association we conducted a survey of workforce needs this was funded by a grant from the US Department of Energy we've got a variety of from a variety of different sectors in energy efficiency and other clean energy and other energy aspects of the workforce and the bottom line result was and it's in our report which is available on our website a bottom line answer is that there is still a continuing need to train up people in technical skills and in especially in the HVAC industry one of the ways to close that gap in training is through the energy management associate's degree that is now available at Tulsa Community College this is a program that was designed to ensure that we have well trained technicians and professionals prepared to serve the clean energy future here in Connecticut and this year actually possible great did I think yesterday and their first class of associate's degree candidates they also have packable certificates that people is much industry it to be professional to advise on workforce development say the certificates are very important so this associate's degree program includes stackable suits and out of the career different points in their their career journey are able to acquire the skills and training that the industry looking ahead in aconitine with the passage of the state budget at the end of October and there was authorization for Twyman work deep to do energy efficiency upgrades in state buildings the likely to be are working towards installation of upgrades for a portion of that funding and an eighth we were authorized the dish 20 million we had fiscal year 18 and for fiscal year 19 and in fiscal year 19 we hope to get those funds released so that they can be our existing projects additionally in collaboration with the Connecticut Green Bank as well as the Department of Administrative Services the Attorney General's Office and other executive branch agencies we have made some progress on getting some standardized documents in place that will allow us to see increased installation of renewable energy at different state facilities we are working to ensure that that can be done cost-effectively and hope to actually see in 2018 additional installations meanwhile he board of formerly known Board of Regents now known as Connecticut state colleges and universities have been installing solar PV systems at various locations in their portfolio such as Manchester Community College and at middlesex Community College and at Southern Connecticut State University overall the state plan for better state buildings that the department is charged with implementing is just recapped here we are working on all of these elements concurrently we're continuing to ensure we've got good data available for all of the state buildings that requires cooperation from state agencies to ensure that we can identify their inventory of buildings and that the information for energy consumption is correlated with those individual buildings but while we work on that we're concurrently also continuing forward to benchmark buildings to find ways to procure services for energy efficiency given different funding constraints we are constantly screening for potential opportunities we've conducted some of these ability analyses renewables across some of our buildings and various energy audits occur in different ways for example through utility stirred programs small-scale audits are conducted for smaller scale projects and we have investment-grade audits that have occurred on a couple of larger projects at the end of the day our goal is to make sure that efficiency measures and renewable energy generation opportunities are financed which is our largest actual challenge as well as installed and remain effective into the future if you have questions my email and my phone number are posted here and Ryan insulin who helped put together the statistics in this presentation can be reached at our lead by example email and we look forward to any questions you have great Thank You Diane we have had a few questions come in and others if you have questions please go ahead and submit them so one question higher-ed spending was Leslie Higher Ed spending less using more energy I can go to the slide on that does this mean that their buildings are more efficient so the slide I think it's like a slide number showing look at that one there spend with no energy consumption was more right partly I'm part of all of the data here is based on the best information available which may or may not be complete but that is part of the reason why we're gathering up this data is so we can analyze those trends so that's right there their usage is greater while their spending is not too much more so the question simply is do we have all of the information available for all of the agencies we're also we are frequently missing data for fuel oil but we're working to plug those data gaps and the variety of buildings that are used in the different in the different are in the different agencies does have an effect on the type of building great okay next question are the average per square foot cost for different types of state buildings based on EPA database of buildings of similar use well actually the every square per square foot that we included in our presentation are actually based on actual consumption so we actually that's unique to the buildings and the usage so that's not an estimate based on that UK database although of course you know for benchmarking buildings that that would be used great and so the automatic population of the Energy Star portfolio manager so municipal and state accounts can request eversource or united illuminating and they can request once they have a portfolio manager account setup for a building they can request that the information from their account be sent electronically to portfolio managers so that but that does require you to initiate that request through the utilities so that's actually another follow up question so how does the state automatically populate energy stars portfolio manager with utility data beyond eversource so the only automated population is from eversource and United illuminating so fuel oils water municipal electric cooperatives data all has to be done by hand it's the only and I think it's an enormous step forward the only automatic population is through eversource and United illuminating for their electricity and their natural gas account is there any anticipation of those becoming automated for fuel oil no I don't know that the fuel oil you know we could probably work with a couple of large vendors we've talked about that for our state buildings to see if they have automatic or to see if they have electronic capacity but our expectation is that or our focus is on electric and natural gas and I don't anticipate fuel oil and water data to be able to flow to profile manager in the near future another question do the energy efficiency funding sweeps affect the progress of the lead by example program yes absolutely the diversions of 40% of the funding for implementation of the conservation and load management plan has affected all sectors across the state all commercial industrial institutional and residential sectors it has a double whammy in terms of effect on the state because the opportunity costs associated with not upgrading our state buildings and reducing operating cost simply means we're not moving towards a more sustainable way of managing our buildings very specifically it affects the funding for the turnkey program that the state has been able to make so much progress with because of the lack of requirement for capital and the small business energy advantage program but if particularly in some regions of the state the state has been rationed in their participation in that program because of a lack of capital the Connecticut Green Bank and the utilities are working hard to increase the amount of capital available to everyone who participates in some of these turnkey utility administered programs and that should unlock some additional opportunity for the state great another question is there an annual written report with the info you presented today yes there's annual reports are posted on our website from 2012 through 2016 and the report for 2017 is in review and should be posted in the coming weeks and does that include a report to the legislature that is the report of legislature and will be submitted to the legislature in the coming weeks folks have any other questions go ahead and submit them otherwise we'll go ahead and wrap up I'll give one more minute for folks to send in any questions they might have okay one last question of my own Diane how what are you excited about in the coming year for this program what are the anticipated milestones that you are excited about moving forward on well the really great news is our capacity for being able to understand our buildings better has grown exponentially in the course of the last year as we've been able to put this information together on a web-based platform that is available to state state agencies and we are looking forward to continued cooperation of agencies as they see the value of being able to track their consumption and take control over their energy costs and their increasing participation in the training that we're providing and how to use our data platform so that individual agencies can plan for just the simplest of operational changes that they can make to save energy as well as energy efficiency upgrades when they have capital funding to do that we're also very optimistic that we'll get released from the bond commission an additional 20 million for state fiscal year 19 that begins July 1 so we will be working to get on to the bond commission agenda and get that authorization released as soon as possible so that we can continue to work with the q of buildings that have requested efficiency upgrades and we'll hope to see that investment pay off as quickly as possible so we're very optimistic that we'll be seeing some good progress in the near future on some mid scale projects we continue to look forward to the challenge of solving the funding the funding dilemma for large-scale capital investments we do not have a sustainable financing path I'm forward on that so we are looking forward to thank you innovatively about ways to cooperate with the utilities to cooperate with other agencies to work with the kind of Green Bank to find some financing solutions in the in the future for some larger scale projects because the opportunities are enormous in the infrastructure of our state buildings is very important it looks like we have one last question come in which is just more expanding on the nature of the upgrades that are installed oh sure I think the most common things are heating vent ventilation and air conditioning upgrades and of course that gives us the best greenhouse gas emission reductions on an overall basis so that's probably the most common type of upgrades although we also see quite a bit of lighting conversion to LED and that's been very important to achieve some quick operational cost reductions but some of those deeper and large-scale investments in HVAC some steam trap replacements have been very popular saving a lot of natural gas and some of the buildings and across campuses and and of course the boilers we have many boilers throughout the state fleet that are dating from 1920's and 30 and so when those get replaced we see enormous benefits both environmentally and financially so those are some important ones and we see a question yes we absolutely intend to get public access to be to the Data Platform there is there is a way for us to do that so we're working with the IT folks to get public access to that database available so we'll post that on our lead by example web page and we what we do have to caution is that there's a lot of incomplete data not every agency has been able yet to identify which electricity and natural gas and fuel accounts match up with which buildings so some of the agencies don't have complete data yet but as soon as possible we'll put that we'll put that data up on our web page and in the interim of course we're happy to answer anyone's questions about a consumption and and to the best of the datas availability share that information great Thank You Diana and Ryan I really appreciate you participating today and it look like we're out of questions if you do think of a question that you want to answer it as Dan suggested contact her Orion their email addresses are on the screen for you right now and feel free to follow up anytime so that concludes our webinar today we are always looking for new ideas on webinars and topics that you're interested in hearing about so please feel free to email me directly or the climate email address and to let me know what your ideas are and hopefully we will have them up in front of you and the next time we do a webinar so have a great day everyone Thanks you