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Energy Independence, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Living and MORE! www.greenenergytimes.org | 802.439.6675 Group Net Metering Comes to NH By Kate Epsen The New Hampshire state legislature passed a group net metering bill, Senate Bill (SB) 98, this past June, which became law in July with Governor Maggie Hassan’s signature. After two unsuccessful attempts to expand individual net metering in NH, SB 98 now enables a critical renewable City of Manchester, NH Achieves energy deployment tool already used in many other states, including Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts. While indi- Millions in Energy Savings vidual net metering currently allows a renewable energy system (such as solar Photo by Bryce Dalhaus photovoltaic or wind) system to spin a by Andy Duncan occupants are more productive in higher- single meter backward and credit that The familiar blue logo “ENERGY STAR performance buildings. NH electric account with the value of that PARTNER” is displayed prominently on the For example, Highland-Goffe’s Falls net excess electricity production (up to City of Manchester’s web site. This desig- Elementary School was targeted for fifteen cents per kWh), group net meter- nation is more than just public relations; energy upgrades. The school received Vermont’s ing creates the opportunity for multiple energy conservation is rooted in the City’s very efficient lighting fixtures along with Successful meters at multiple properties to share in municipal culture. occupancy sensors. And carbon dioxide As the largest city in New Hampshire, sensors were mounted in rooms to gauge Net Metering Manchester manages close to 3 million an aspect of indoor air quality, allowing a square feet of space across 65 municipal new heat recovery and ventilation system Program buildings and 23 buildings in the Man- to operate only as much as needed. Kevin chester School District (MSD). Overall, the O’Maley, Chief Facilities Manager for the Threatened annual energy bill for these public build- City of Manchester said “Highland-Goffe’s ings was about $$4.2 million in fiscal year Falls was the first Manchester school to 2013. While that’s a hefty energy bill, it is a whopping $1.3 million less than the 2009 energy costs! Concord resident installed a 9.275 kW solar array on The City of his roof, taking advantage the new law, HB542, that Manchester has went into effect on July 29. The cap was raised to a long history of 10kW per system, so systems of 10kW or less are now making energy im- eligible for the residential rebate: 75¢ per watt of provements, but Net metered solar array at Cold Hollow Cider panel rated power up to $3,750, or 50% of the total these efforts were facility cost, whichever is less. Photo: Robert Wyatt supercharged By Johanna Miller in 2011 and Net metering is one of Vermont’s that value from a single system. Can’t put 2012 when over most successful renewable energy solar panels on your roof because it is too $3 million was programs. It makes it possible for spent on energy shady? Don’t own your building but want The Manchester, NH School District has reduced its energy bill by over $1 million per Vermonters interested in generating upgrades. The net to invest in local, clean, distributed energy year! Chart provided from the City of Manchester. their own renewable power — most resources? Can’t afford your own system? price tag to the often solar — to put a system on their Group net metering could be part of the City was reduced achieve ENERGY STAR certification in 2011. home or property and offset their answer to these past problems of access substantially with cost-share funding from electric bills. It’s a good program for to renewable, homegrown power. federal, state and utility sources, including Now 16 out of Manchester’s 22 schools are ENERGY STAR certified.” Only the top customers, who want to wean off Under SB 98, individuals with their own 54% of the total in grants and rebates, expensive fossil fuels and stabilize account and meter within a single utility’s and 46% in low interest loans. In less than 25% most energy-efficient commercial buildings can earn the ENERGY STAR their long-term electricity costs. It’s service territory can come together to three years, energy savings will pay for also good for utilities, which can use the cost of these loans. Taxpayers benefit, certification. the local economy is strengthened, and Cont. on page 7 Cont. on page 10 Cont. on page 9
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By Harvey George million from of $9 networkgot a grant Transportation the US Department of 6 OCTOBER 15, 2013 www.greenenergytimes.org 802.439.6675 R enewable Energy News Ad Size Dimensions Button 2.3125 x 1.375 Solar and wind are USDA Renewable Energy highly reliable; 1/16 Page horiz. 4.875 x 1.5 coal, gas, and 1/16 Page vert. 2.3125 x 3 Grants for NH & VT nuclear are not. By N. R. Mallery agricultural producers and rural small their carbon footprints, reduce energy The argument against solar and 1/8 Page horiz. 4.875 x 3 The U.S. Department of Agriculture businesses reduce their energy consump- costs and improve profitability, stated wind based on their purported (USDA) on August 15 announced more tion and costs, use renewable energy David Robinson, Acting State Director. intermittent or variable nature has than $21 million in funding for 631 technologies in their an interesting counterpoise, which 1/8 Page vert. 2.3125 x 6.1875 projects across the nation that will help operations, and conduct is that they have outstanding reli- feasibility studies for renew- ability. Solar and wind use no fuel, 1/6 Page 4.875 x 4.125 able energy so their operating costs are highly projects. predictable years in advance; by Farmers, contrast, the costs of coal, gas, and 1/4 Page vert. 4.875 x 6.1875 ranchers, nuclear are so variable that they business are impossible to predict. 1/4 Page horiz. 10 x 3 owners, and agriculture producers in 1/3 Page horiz. 10 x 4.125 42 states, the U.S. Virgin 1/2 Page horiz. 10 x 6.1875 Islands, and Puerto Rico Sanders will receive 1/2 Page vert. 4.875 x 12.5625 funding. Grants Photo courtesy: USDA.gov Statement on 2/3 Page 10 x 8.25 and loans Larson Farm 40kW Solar System on tractor shed - Wells, VT are made Full Page 10 x 13 through the USDA’s Rural Energy for USDA’s investment is leveraging $867,000 U.N. Climate 66 America Program (REAP). of private funding placing the bulk of New Hampshire received project investment with the benefit- funding for three projects, ting businesses.” Businesses receiving Change Report all photovoltaic (PV) assistance include: Vermont Cranberry installations. A.B. Logging of Company, Rodney Bushey Jr., Louise & WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - Senator Bernie Sand- Yellow Black Magenta Yellow Cyan Lancaster received a grant Randi Calderwood, Lawrence Sloan Jr., ers (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after of $20,525. Northern Design Westminster Energy, LLC and The Big the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Precast, Inc. of Loudon Picture Farm. A diversity of technologies Climate Change released its latest report. received a grant of $19,144. was funded including: Solar photovoltaic, And Barrington Solar, LLC of Micro Hydroelectric, Reverse Osmosis and “Once again, the world’s leading scientists on Barrington received a grant an Electrical Generation System to support climate change have spoken. Their conclusion of $118,332 and a loan of “Cow Power” energy production. is that global warming is real, that it is already $182,000. Massachusetts info not available due to causing enormous problems for our planet, In Vermont, six projects the government shutdown. and that it will only get worse unless we take were awarded $180,760 bold action to cut greenhouse gas emissions For information about REAP grants/loans, please and transform our energy system. It is long in REAP grant funding, contact Cheryl Ducharme of USDA at 802-828-6083 “for businesses to reduce past time for Congress to address this major Luna Blue Farm 17kW Solar on tractor shed - So. Royalton, VT. or visit www.rurdev.usda.gov/nh-vtHome.html. planetary crisis.” Confusing Data from the DOE on the Future Cost of Renewable Energy By George Harvey wind farms for prices lower than prices The amounts of power from various that the agency change the methods Over the past couple years, there have charged by utilities. Green Energy Times sources estimated by the DOE and EIA used for their calculations. An example been increasing amounts of information has repeat- also appeared they cite is an EIA projection that we coming from the advocates of nuclear edly run Cost in $ Technology to be wrong. might get to have 14% to 16% of our power and fossil fuels that seem out of articles advis- per MWh Projections power from renewable power, including touch with reality. Their estimates of ing people from the DOE solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and bio- both the amount of renewable power that there is 0 – 50 Energy Efficiency have shown fuels, by 2040. The problem is that at the being installed and the cost of electricity no economic that coal and time the figures were released, their own it would produce appeared to be based reason why 45 – 95 Wind gas would statistics on installed renewable power they should dominate on bad data. 61 – 87 Gas, Combined Cycle said we were getting 14.2% already. At first glance, it seemed that they not invest in power genera- The following day, Lazard, a financial were using old sources in a world where renewable 89 – 99 Solar tion for quite advising company, released its analysis of the rate of change is clearly increasing. power now a long time to the current energy market costs, “Lazard’s One might think that the whole thing – it will only 87 – 116 Biomass come. Levelized Cost of Energy, Version 7.0.” would be settled as the Department of lower their Two inter- Aside from energy efficiency, the least Energy (DOE) and Energy Information power costs. 86 – 122 Nuclear esting news expensive power they list is from wind. Administration (EIA) updated their Yet the DOE- items came up Solar and biomass are listed as more figures, as they do annually. Last year, projected 65 – 145 Coal in September. expensive than gas, but less expensive however, the projections for the cost grid parity One, appeared than nuclear, and the price is still declin- solar power in 2017 was significantly for wind and 89 – 142 Geothermal in various ing on both solar and biomass. These higher than the actual costs of projects solar – the news sources figures are for unsubsidized power – the going up in New England, all around us. point when 102 – 135 Microhydro on the 10th price of subsidized power is lower. They they were of the month, The costs of electricity from renew- 179 – 230 Gas, peaking represent the average wholesale prices able sources have been dropping below able to saying that for electrical power. The table shows the the costs of “grid” power from utilities. compete on nearly 100 figures, ordered by average of high and One after another, we have seen small an even basis with coal, gas, and nuclear businesses and other organizations had low costs. companies offer power from solar and --would be achieved in 2025. sent a letter to the head of the EIA asking 7
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Sustainable Energy rebate program has made rebates available for photovoltaic (PV) photovoltaic for available and wind systems has made rebates program rebate capacity of less than 5 kilowattswith a nameplate (kW); excluded. were systems larger HB 1628, the bill directing the Commission by mandated was size cap on system The establish this program. to more becoming were systems larger noting that dissatisfaction with the 5 kW cap, In some cases homeowners plummeted. PV systems for as prices commonplace from a rebate and receive apply for the cap, just below sized install systems would capacity a larger - a perfectly to their PV systems and then expand the Commission, go. to way but not an efficient maneuver, legitimate although the rebate, the residential for eligible now are of 10 kW or less Systems $3,750, or 50% of up to power of panel rated the same: $.75 per watt remains rebate is less. facility whichever the total cost, It seems that than 5 kW. larger systems been for have applications most new rebate will be homeowners more a result, As normal. the new are systems residential larger times and at fully meet their electrical power, more able to renewable needs with the electrical which home to which is returned - and for surplus grid energy generate these demand, times of peak system on their electric At credit a bills. receive owners dirty expensive, the need for and reduce grid, power up the regional shore systems In local these and other the long term, on line. be brought to plants power “peaking” and plants new power expensive the need for facilities help reduce energy renewable and expansions. upgrades infrastructure transmission UNH Solar Air Project. 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Comparison of Efficiencies of Old, Low Energy, and Passive Buildings to basically three numbers: Heat Energy Demand: 4.75 kiloBTUs per square foot of treated floor area per year. Primary Energy Demand: 38.0 kiloBTUs per square foot of treated floor area per year. This number is to ensure that all the energy saved in optimizing heating demand is not then wasted in equipment and plug loads. Airtightness: 0.6 ACH50. This means, when pres- surized or depressurized with blower door fans at 50 Pascals pressure, the building enclosure leaks no more than 60% percent of its interior occupied air volume over the course of an hour. This is extremely airtight. Because air tightness has the single greatest impact on energy efficiency this is the one physically confirmed measurement. Because of this narrow and clear focus, again counter intuitively perhaps, Passive House has been able to grow rapidly in acceptance around the globe in the past few decades. A Short History: The first contemporary Passive House was constructed as an experiment in Darmstadt- Kranichstein, Germany in 1990 following an interna- tional scientific research project by German physicist Wolfgang Feist, Swedish academic Bo Adamson and others. This effort developed high-performance Cont. on page 24 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 21 21 - s w OCTOBER 15, 2013 21 15, 2013 OCTOBER Sustainable Energy Resource Group Home Performance Assessments ption Save Energy & Money [email protected] • 802-785-4126 [email protected] Improve Health, Comfort & Safety Improve Health, www.SERG-info.org/energy-assessment O Bob Walker is the Executive Director for Sustain- is the Executive Bob Walker (SERG) 802-785-4126, Group Resource able Energy VT www.SERG-info.org. Center, Thetford new window counterbalances, and attach counterbalances, new window sash and spring to the counterweight counterweight cavity fill the Then replace. insulation foam with polyisocyanurate the out around undercut slightly board, with board of foam side and air seal edges Window “Pullman (We foam. suggest spray 585-334- at: available Counterbalance” 1350, http://pullmanbalances.com/). 802.439.6675 g or s. e m ti gy reenener . wwwg - Sometimes window bands (the trim bands - Sometimes window types old window with - If have you building supply warehouses. Much longer building supply warehouses. from v-strip is available lasting bronze http:// Center: Resource Architectural www.aresource.com/cushion.html#start sides hold- unit’s on the window boards or the sash in place), ing the moveable most people) need to (“sill” stool window fit more to and adjusted, removed be to the sash. Do against a careful uniformly sash still can move. job so that and counterweights, pulleys ropes, covering the inside trim piece remove cavity on each sidethe counterweight cord the counterweight Cut of window. (make the counterweights and remove so they do not latched sashes are sure counterweights). when removing drop one side and from stops window Remove sash. (Thisremove install is a good time to see above.) sides – at weatherstrip v-seal and sash to attached cording Remove If you jambs. window from pulleys remove opening capability retain do not need to temporarily it, of upper sash, reinstall edges. and caulk at sash in place screwing keep both sash operable, to If want you with pulleys the old counterweigh replace -
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