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on for the Clim mati ate C for han In g ic e I g nd te u a s r t t r S y CLIMATE CHANGE BUSINESS JOURNAL® Volume V, No. 11/12 November/December 2012 Climate Change Business Journal 2012 Business 2012 Executive Review & CCBJ Awards Achievement Awards CCBJ’s 2012 Business Achievement Awards recognize more than 30 high achievers in the climate change industry. Senior executives and top experts in the Business Achievement: Growth industry share their perspectives in Q&A sessions and bylined guest articles. Gold Q&As & Articles Inside this Issue: rightSource Energy (Oakland, 11: Top 12 CCBJ quotes from 2012 30: Greenhouse Gas Management Institute focuses on professional development and Calif.) for becoming the clear 12: Then & Now: Skeptics who changed education. leader in the U.S. concentrat- their minds about climate change ing solar power (CSP) segment. At a 34: Powerit offers automated solutions to B 18: AECOM on risk management and time when most CSP projects proposed industrial demand response market. over the last four years in the United climate change adaptation. 37: WSP finds mitigation and adaptation States have been delayed, canceled or 21: Jane Capital offers perspective on smart figuring large in the in supply chain. reconfigured as solar PV projects, Bright- grid investments. Source has pushed ahead with its 377 40: WESTON describes how sustainability 24: Pike Research addresses distributed MW Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating unites a diverse practice. generation and microgrids. System (86% owned by NRG Energy 43: CH2M HILL engages with climate risk and Google) in the southwest California 26: Real estate services firm CBRE looks at worldwide. desert. The Ivanpah CSP project, which trends in energy efficiency. was more than 75% complete at the end 46: Sustainable infrastructure gains 28: What Cost for Green in California? of 2012, uses BrightSource’s proprietary momentum with new rating body, Envision Guest commentary by Fereidoon P. power tower technology. Sioshansi of EEnergy Informer and Menlo 49: Performance Systems Development Thirty years ago, BrightSource’s Energy Economics explains software tools for energy efficiency. technical team pioneered the now-ma- ture parabolic trough CSP technology as With some of the world’s largest long- project at Chevron’s Coalinga oilfield in Luz International and built the world’s term (20 to 25 years) power purchase California. In SEC reports filed before first commercially viable CSP projects in agreements (PPAs) with Southern Cali- BrightSource decided to cancel its 2011 California’s Mojave Desert. After deter- fornia Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, IPO, the firm reported revenues—derived mining about 15 years ago that trough BrightSource has several larger projects from sales of steam to Chevron project technology would not survive as the lead- in development which are designed to and from sales of equipment and services ing edge in the United States due to water produce twice the electrical output as to its equity partners at Ivanpah, based on requirements in the desert environment, Ivanpah with only 50 percent more mir- the percentage-of-completion method of the BrightSource principals developed the rors and towers almost twice as tall as accounting—of $159.1 million for 2011, air-cooled power tower technology which Ivanpah’s three 459-foot towers. up more than 1,000% from 2010. they estimate requires only 5% of the water of competing wet-cooled CSP plants. BrightSource also operates one of the According to Jim Ivany, president, It also boasts better thermal efficiency and first CSP projects supplying steam for renewable power, for Bechtel, Bright- is expected to be more scalable. enhanced oil recovery, a 29 MW thermal Source’s EPC contractor, future projects Climate Change Business Journal Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry November-December 2012

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On 1.5 MW of capac- tees and cushions in the EPC contract; other key equipment will deliver twice the ity, it experimented with changing tilt the revenue backing from reputable banks output at less than twice the cost. Ad- angles, re-cabling and re-sorting. And (i.e. Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, and ditionally, procuring for multiple projects for most of the year, it tested Tigo and Citi).” will provide price leverage with suppli- Solaredge optimizers on a cross-section “Furthermore, solar projects are report- ers. As noted in prior editions of CCBJ, of its plants, the results of which showed edly making returns of ~15% (Topaz is pairing thermal energy storage with CSP an average 10% boost in production that expected to be even higher at 16.3%), and generation facilities would allow the solar RTR expects will continue as it deploys this is starting to pique investor interest plants to follow load and deliver more the technology across its entire portfolio in solar-backed financial products. As value to utilities. According to Ivany, starting in June 2013. the renewables industry matures and as BrightSource’s next project is probably “We are also in the process of starting investors come to better understand the not going to have storage but some of its the official testing of an inverter optimizer risks and returns of this asset class, we remaining contracted capacity will have which enables all components to work at may see more capital market plays for storage. the best of their capabilities, reduce risks wind and solar projects in the future. And Silver of errors in the system governing the what better firm to blaze this trail than inverters, decrease component tempera- one with Buffet’s Midas touch? While RTR Rete Rinnovabile (Rome) for its ture and send alerts in advance in case of there will certainly be a learning curve for acquisition and aggressive management over-stress so that power can be cut off both investors and project sponsors in this of solar PV generating capacity in Italy. before damage occurs,” wrote Amedeo space, MidAmerican has set the bar pretty Since being acquired by private equity Lori, business development analyst. far up the slope.” firm Terra Firma in March 2011, RTR grew its portfolio from 144 MW to 297.5 Business Achievement: Finance Consulting & Engineering: Climate MW—at 117 power plants—by the end Risk Management & Adaptation of 2012, turning over normalized annual Gold revenues of around €160 million. RTR MidAmerican Renewables (Des Gold has become the market leader in PV elec- Moines, IA), the renewable energy arm ICF International (Fairfax, Va.), one tricity generation in Italy, as well as one of Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy of the world’s top consultancies in climate of the largest, if not the largest, PV power Holdings Co., for its sale of bonds (at change risk management and adaptation, generators in Europe. 5.75% with maturity in 2039) to finance for notable success in 2012. During the $850 million of the $2.4 billion, 550 MW year, ICF supported the U.S. Agency for But RTR isn’t just rolling up existing Topaz Solar Project to be located on International Development (USAID) assets and taking the income to the bank. Southern California’s Carrisa Plains. “We in the creation of its Climate Change Its business model is to become a “global can make this sort of investment because Adaptation Plan and co-developed a set solar utility” by: 1) “supporting and super- MidAmerican retains all of its earnings, of vulnerability assessment approaches for vising” project developers during develop- unlike other utilities that generally pay out use in the design and implementation of ment and construction—an “over-sup- most of what they earn,” said Buffet in his projects in developing countries. For the plied” segment of the value chain which February 2012 annual shareholder letter. World Bank, ICF developed a set of tools only returns 3-4% on equity, according “Many more wind and solar projects will to assess the potential impact of climate to a spokesperson; 2) stepping in to take almost certainly follow.” change on the massive array of new World over ownership and management at Bank projects. commercial operation; and 3) enhancing The Topaz Solar Project will utilize production and revenues through insourc- solar panels provided by First Solar, which ICF continued its role as a leader ing O&M and energy management, is also building the project as well as in transportation-related climate risk using new optimization technology and MidAmerican’s 290 MW Agua Caliente management, including publishing the selling electricity through diverse methods project in Arizona. Travis Lowder, an initial results from its work examining the including energy markets and bilateral energy analyst with the National Renew- climate vulnerability of transportation in contracts. able Energy Laboratory (NREL) wrote in low-lying Mobile, Alabama, the country’s March 2012 that the MidAmerican bond largest federally funded adaptation project Climate Change Business Journal Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry November-December 2012 in a single metropolitan location. ICF also Consulting & Engineering: items arrive in the proper order and at the produced guidance for state DOTs and Renewable Energy Practice proper time. “When you’re talking about a Metropolitan Planning Organizations on million solar panels, it’s pretty important using and applying climate information. Gold they arrive when they’re needed,” said Global engineering, procurement and Ivany. Bechtel’s extensive track record ICF helped cities cope with the effects construction (EPC) company, Bechtel building transmission also positions the of climate change, including Los Ange- (San Francisco) for rapidly growing firm well to build needed interconnections les, Philadelphia, Castries, St. Lucia, and its business in renewable power, in- between remote renewable projects and Cuzco, Peru. ICF’s work for the private cluding playing the vital EPC role in high-voltage transmission networks. sector was exemplified by a framework BrightSource’s 377 MW Ivanpah project, to address climate risk in the mining Ivany says Bechtel has begun using its one of the world’s largest concentrating industry. In another project, ICF created a massive global sourcing capabilities—it solar power (CSP) projects, and NRG’s spatially detailed analysis of the potential directly buys about $20 billion worth of California Valley Solar Ranch—at 250 economic costs of climate change on the plant, equipment and materials annu- MW, one of the world’s largest solar US electricity industry. ally—to work with manufacturers on PV projects and one whose design and “constructability reviews” that will make construction are complicated by the use of Silver PV and CSP equipment easier to install, motor-driven trackers that follow the sun. AECOM (Los Angeles) for a major thereby driving costs out of the on-site climate resilience study for Queensland Ranked by Engineering News-Record construction process. “When you’re in an Urban Utilities, operator of water and as the largest U.S. construction contractor environment like California where skilled wastewater treatment infrastructure that for the last 14 years, Bechtel (pronounced construction labor is costing you $70 and was severely damaged during flooding in BEK-tl) generated $32.9 billion in rev- hour, being more efficient in the field will 2011. AECOM developed a value-for- enues in 2011 and gained new contract significantly reduce the capital cost of the money, risk-informed capital management awards valued at $53 billion, according to plant,” said Ivany. program to reduce loss of service from the privately held firm’s website. Engi- In wind power, Bechtel’s sweet spot similar future events. Working with QUU neering and building power plants is a will be large facilities in difficult locations engineers, planners and asset managers, significant part of the company’s business, as well as offshore projects, first in the AECOM risk and asset management staff and Bechtel has ranked #1 U.S. power UK and Germany, then other markets. developed a comprehensive, quantitative contractor for 14 years as well. “We think the Mid-Atlantic U.S. will risk assessment and prioritization tool afford opportunities for us downstream, that encompassed risks to loss of service, According to a fall 2012 CCBJ Q&A although that market is lagging a little bit as well as community, environmental and with Bechtel’s President for Renewable just because of the politics.” financial impacts and health and safety Power Jim Ivany, Bechtel was drawn to the renewable power market by the vastly considerations. Gold increasing size of utility-scale projects. AECOM prioritised assets-at-risk, “These large-scale projects beg for an SAIC (Mclean, Va.) for robust growth and developed a staged, optimised capital EPC contractor that has the stability of its renewable energy practice which works program to increase resilience of and expertise to deliver, with certainty of has doubled in the last two years as states, the water network. A key outcome was outcome, the results that are expected not provinces and countries continue to sup- a comprehensive approach to tracking only from the owners but also from the port renewable energy development to how much risk was reduced in percent- financial community that’s betting on the diversify their power asset mix and reduce age terms for every dollar invested. This results.” emissions from electric power genera- enabled the QUU Board to track residual tion. SAIC’s technical, engineering and risk alongside infrastructure investment. While CSP and PV projects don’t analytical consulting for renewable energy AECOM has completed over 100 require the same level of millwright and project developers has included more than Climate risk assessment, adaptation and other craft labor skills that Bechtel’s more 130 wind projects representing more than resilience studies over the past few years. typical power projects do—in gas, coal 1 GW of capacity, and its work on solar and nuclear technology—the volume of power projects has exceeded 600 MW in components and the acreage covered by both PV and concentrating solar thermal the solar projects like Ivanpah and Cata- technologies. Additionally the firm has lina require intensive logistical planning worked on numerous biomass and geo- and materials management to ensure sure thermal projects November-December 2012 Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry Climate Change Business Journal

Some of SAIC’s projects in 2012 in- remote energy assessments of the remain- Brown to include GHG mitigation in its cluded acting as independent engineer for ing facilities. Across the company’s U.S. general plan for growth and development, a multi-billion dollar solar and wind port- manufacturing sites, ENVIRON identi- Atkins’ subsidiary Atkins North American folio project in Canada that will generate fied efficiency projects that would reduce (formerly known as PBS&J) worked with more than 650 MW of renewable energy; energy consumption by 14% and carbon the county, the local Building Industry Seigneurie de Beaupré’s ongoing $850 emissions by 33% within a competitive Association, the cement industry and oth- million, 271.8MW wind project that was payback period. er business interests to develop screening named a Project Finance Deal of the Year; tables that allow flexibility in prioritizing In a similar fashion, ENVIRON’s the 845 MW Shepherds Flat wind project GHG reductions while meeting the terms Energy, Carbon and Cost Prioritization that was completed in late 2012 and is of the county’s settlement agreement with Tool helps clients prioritize greenhouse one of the largest onshore wind projects in the state. gas (GHG) reduction projects within the the world; AES Solar’s $636 million, 200 context of a cumulative target. This pro- The entire project took five years, with MW-AC Mount Signal Solar project in prietary software allows clients to consider the county adopting its GHG Reduction Imperial County, Calif.; LS Power’s 170 their entire portfolio of reduction project Plan in January 2012 and Atkins train- MW-AC Centinela Solar Energy project opportunities, and prioritize based on ing county staff in spring 2012 to use the in California and 127 MW-AC Arlington costs and energy/GHG reductions. tables. The first test cases were completed Valley Solar Energy II. in April and May 2012, and after some For example, ENVIRON worked with fine tuning, the screening tables have been Consulting & Engineering: Energy the Port of Portland over eight months used for all new development applications & Carbon Management to help develop its Carbon and Energy in San Bernardino County since fall 2012. Management Plan, which charts the most Gold efficient path toward its carbon emis- The screening tables provide a menu ENVIRON (Arlington, Va.) for devel- sions reduction goal of 15% below 1990 of options for energy efficiency, renewable oping strategic approaches and compan- levels by 2020. ENVIRON’s software energy, waste diversion, water conserva- ion software that allow the firm to more tool was used to calculate, compare and tion, transportation-related emissions efficiently and cost-effectively identify track energy, carbon and lifecycle cost reductions, GHG emission reduction and prioritize energy and carbon reduc- impacts of current and future energy and credits and other measures that entities tions for clients. ENVIRON’s Survey and carbon reduction opportunities. The tool developing a new project or expanding an Analysis Tool for Remote Assessments allows for the creation and comparison of existing facility can choose to meet their enables its energy and carbon manage- different portfolios of projects and allows “fair share” of the county’s GHG reduc- ment professionals to extrapolate detailed users to run “what-if ” analyses based tion goals. information from a few client sites in on adjustments to financial parameters, This method was chosen after Atkins order to identify opportunities across a energy prices, fuel/energy carbon intensity and the county staff investigated and much broader range of sites and produce and implementation schedules. The Port rejected other approaches including vol- specific marginal abatement curves for continues to use the tool to analyze the untary compliance (not likely to achieve both energy and carbon. The results iden- benefits and costs of new projects, track high enough participation), GHG reduc- tify company- or institution-wide reduc- the implementation and performance of tion ordinances (too onerous for busi- tion opportunities without the expense of existing energy management projects, as nesses and staff ) and even a local GHG rigorous facility-by-facility audits. well as to make long-term carbon reduc- emissions trading market (too burden- tion projections. For one major international beverage some for staff to implement). The screen- manufacturer, ENVIRON used these Silver ing tables method was chosen for being methods to develop estimates for the a versatile, business-friendly and easy to Atkins (Epsom, Surrey, U.K.) for de- potential to reduce carbon and energy at implement method to meet the County’s veloping a novel approach to greenhouse nearly two dozen locations throughout GHG Reduction Plan. gas (GHG) reductions for San Bernardi- the United States without costly site visits no County which has since been adopted at all locations. After completing detailed by Riverside and Sutter counties. After energy assessments at three manufactur- San Bernardino became, in 2007, one of ing locations, ENVIRON utilized the the first jurisdictions forced by then At- results to create a bespoke survey and torney General (and now Governor) Jerry analysis software tool that allowed for Climate Change Business Journal Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry November-December 2012

Business Model Innovation: Smart to implement a comprehensive smart grid implement energy efficiency projects at Grid & Energy Management solution without major upfront capital commercial, industrial and institutional investment. Instead of investing heavily in facilities at no upfront cost to the custom- Gold smart meters and other automated meter- er. Through its comprehensive financing Schneider Electric (Rueil Malmaison, ing infrastructure, plus staff development solutions, Metrus pays for all upfront and France) for continuing to leverage its to implement it, SGS customers pay on ongoing project costs, providing facility broad energy management expertise in a per-meter, per-month basis. As SAIC owners and operators with the operation- areas ranging from low to medium-volt- points out, the smart grid rollout has been al, economic and environmental benefits age equipment, residential, industrial, and predominantly led by investor-owned util- of impactful energy efficiency measures commercial energy management systems, ities with public- and community-owned without the capital expense. and electric vehicle charging solutions to utilities—a segment SAIC estimates Metrus is an energy efficiency pioneer enable the smart grid and provide valuable serves 46 million Americans—generally that created the country’s first energy services to improve grid reliability and behind the curve. efficiency-based independent power pro- energy efficiency. SAIC launched SGS in late 2011 and ducer (IPP) business model. While IPPs Schneider Electric’s December 2012 had several successes in 2012, including develop and finance power plants and sell completion of the Telvent brand inte- implementing the first SGS project in electricity (kWh), Metrus has turned the gration, the company has combined its four remote Alaskan villages. By better IPP model on its head by developing and global expertise in control and automation integrating wind power, the SGS system financing retrofit projects that sell energy hardware with Telvent’s industry leading is expected to reduce their dependence on savings, or “negawatts.” Advanced Distribution Management Sys- expensive and hard-to-access diesel fuel. Metrus’ ESA is being utilized to fi- tem (ADMS) to create smarter electrical SAIC also signed and began work on nance efficiency projects at BAE Systems’ grids that allow utilities and consumers to a 10-year contract with United Power for entire portfolio of facilities in the United maximize peak demand management and a 10,000 meter SGS pilot project. United States. In 2012, Metrus financed two new the use of renewable energy sources to Power is a rural electric cooperative projects with BAE and its implementa- help meet growing energy demands. providing electric service to nearly 70,000 tion partner Siemens, raising the total of Additionally, Schneider Electric’s part- homes and businesses in Colorado’s ESA projects completed to date at BAE nership with IPKeys Technologies, an- northern Front Range. United Power facilities to $8 million. These new projects nounced October 2012, demonstrates the CEO Ron Asche said in a statement that contain a diverse mix of energy efficiency company’s leadership in demand response. SAIC’s “comprehensive, affordable, and measures including lighting retrofits, Through this partnership, Schneider integrated one-stop resource … enables building automation, air compressor and Electric and IPKeys will deliver a fully our organization to better manage the transformer replacements, demand control Automated Demand Response (ADR) risks associated with implementation of ventilation and operational best practices. and Energy Management Information this advanced technology.” As part of the The projects showcase Metrus’ ability System (EMIS) solution for utilities’ and project, SAIC is assisting United Power to to offer customers a flexible, scalable and commercial and industrial (C&I) custom- refine its business processes and drive cul- proven structure to finance integrated EE ers. IPKey’s EISS technology integrates ture change necessary to make full use of projects. Based on its innovative work with Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare the system’s capabilities, including outage in energy efficiency finance, Metrus was software at the control level, providing alerts, remote connection capabilities and selected as an inaugural member of the C&I customers with a robust, flexible, and the capability for enhanced integration of White House’s and DOE’s Better Build- cost effective method of connecting to the alternative energy metering such as time ings Challenge program. smart grid and maximizing the demand of use and net metering. response potential of their facilities, ac- Gold cording to the company. Business Model Innovation: Energy Efficiency Next Step Living (Boston) for taking Silver what Jeff St. John of Greentech Media describes as a “community organizing SAIC (Mclean, Va.) for achieving Gold approach” to residential energy efficiency continuing market penetration for its Metrus Energy (San Francisco) for upgrades. “Home energy efficiency audits Smart Grid as a Service (SGS) business pioneering work using efficiency ser- and retrofits are known to pay themselves model that allows public power utilities vices agreements (ESAs) to finance and off in a couple of years,” wrote St. John in November-December 2012 Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry Climate Change Business Journal

December 2012. But on a house-to-house “Next Step Living has also built up its Technology Merit: Smart Grid & basis, optimal solutions vary significantly. fair share of homegrown IT to manage Energy Management the entire process [including] software While one home needs insulation, that analyzes homes based on utility and Gold the next could benefit from an HVAC property data to predict which ones will ENBALA Power Networks (Toronto) upgrade, and costs for the improvements be the best targets for different combina- for developing and commercializing differ across based on dwelling types and tions of projects,” wrote St. John (noting demand-side storage network technology conditions. “Any party looking to op- that other startups like Bidgely, Opower that uses advanced controls and sophis- timize the return on investing in home and Recurve Software (recently acquired ticated software to aggregate large-scale energy efficiency—whether it be a utility by Tendril) “offer similar data analy- commercial, industrial and institutional offering rebates, a company offering a tics tools to help better direct efficiency electricity users into a network to provide sale, or a government agency offering an spending.”). demand side management services to incentive—will need to have someone power grids. ENBALA calls its clients’ go to each home, meet with each family, NSL CEO Geoff Chapin told St. flexibility, “demand-side storage” because and figure out each customers’ individual John that many of the firm’s customers they utilize available storage within their needs, to make each efficiency dollar are “middle- and higher-income clients processes, such as water pumping at a count,” noted St. John. [who] simply aren’t aware of how much efficiency and renewable energy can save water and wastewater treatment plant Next Step Living (NSL) works with them [or] haven’t been told how much of or chilling at a refrigerated warehouse. schools, church groups, employers and it can be paid for via rebates, incentives or ENBALA then captures and intelligently other organizations to educate their [other] programs. aggregates available process storage to de- members and employees about efficiency. liver real-time flexibility back to the grid. Leveraging utility, local, state and federal Silver ENBALA’s networked loads provide incentive programs and subsidies, NSL Ygrene Energy Fund (Santa Rosa, grid operators with the vital regulation has audited about 25,000 homes since its Calif.) for adapting the property assessed service, (also known as frequency regu- 2008 funding (with about one-third sign- clean energy (PACE) funding model lation) they need to constantly match ing up for retrofits and a smaller portion into a clean energy district template. The generation with load. ENBALA has opting for solar leasing or power purchase template enables local jurisdictions to branded its regulation service as Grid agreements, which NSL executes with establish PACE-like programs to help Balance. While it would be extremely firms such as Sunrun). Along the way property owners finance energy efficiency, difficult for any single load to respond it has grown its employee count to 450. renewable energy and water efficiency on its own to the four-second regulation In December 2012, the company raised improvements with not upfront costs and signal, by networking facilities together, $18.2 million from VantagePoint Capital repayment through property tax assess- ENBALA creates the agility and respon- Partners, Black Coral Capital and Mass ments. siveness needed to provide regulation. Green Energy Fund to expand outside “The idea is that water plant A has a bit Massachusetts. Combined with prior VC Modeled on the highly successful of flexibility, water plant B has some flex- funding of $12 million, the $30 million Sonoma County PACE program, Ygrene’s ibility and a cold storage plant has some total is “a lot of money for a startup in en- turnkey solution connects municipali- flexibility. We aggregate that flexibility ergy efficiency, particularly during what’s ties with building owners, local banks together,” said CEO Ron Dizy. “No single been a very slow year for green VC,” noted and local contractors to plan, finance device responds to the signal, the network St. John. and implement energy upgrades. Ygrene also provides on-the-ground support and responds.” In addition to its community-based integrated software to support their com- Since rolling out Grid Balance in 2011, outreach, a key distinguishing factor in munity-based partnership. ENBALA has added other applications NSL’s business model is that it combines for wind integration and generator ef- the audit and retrofit functions as opposed In 2012, Ygrene’s solution was ap- ficiency—which also aggregate networked to the more typical models in which proved by Miami, Atlanta, the City and demand-side loads’ inherent storage. independent auditors don’t “stick around County of Sacramento and additional ENBALA has won several “best of ” and to help the homeowner do the actual municipalities in South Florida. To date, “companies to watch” shout-outs from retrofit,” and retrofit specialists usually Ygrene has aligned nearly $1 billion of electricity trade media, including being represent an installer or vendor with spe- private capital to fund energy upgrades named one of Canada’s Top 10 Most cific products to sell, according to St. John. across America, according to the company. 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Promising Cleantech Companies in De- Like Silver Spring, EnergyHub the 2009 Recovery Act, “almost every util- cember 2012 by the ethical business outfit and other players in this space, Tendril ity in America began issuing requests for Corporate Knights. developed a cloud-based platform which proposals for smart grid projects aimed at third-party developers use to create apps updating their infrastructure and deliver- Like curtailment service providers for end-users to slice, dice and shape their ing new energy management options.” (CSPs) such as EnerNOC, ENBALA is electricity usage—from smartphones, While growing its business to “$100 paid by the electric utility or grid operator, computers and tablets, or even old-school million invested, 40+ clients on three sharing the payment with the supplier-cli- paper reports. Tendril interfaces with the continents, almost 4 million households ents. But ENBALA is unique in provid- Department of Energy’s Green Button, on our platform, and over 500 third-party ing its Grid Balance regulation service where consumers can upload electricity developers … we were reminded of one to a market that independent power data and find user-friendly apps to trans- key lesson we sometimes forgot in our producer AES estimated at between 8 late data into actionable information. And passion for our mission: The utility indus- and 10 GW in the United States in 2011. it has its own app, Tendril Energize, that try moves slowly.” The firm is also unique in its networking “leverages proven behavioral models” to of demand side loads, not just for control, “[Entering 2013 we have learned that] make it easier for electric utilities, energy visibility and accounting, but in order to many utilities don’t have the economic marketers and others to engage custom- respond as an orchestrated group. path to justify the investment in consumer ers in demand response, load control and energy engagement in the short term. Since November, 2011, ENBALA, energy efficiency, according to the firm. Utilities are businesses too and have re- which has 50 employees, has been selling Tendril also sells in-home displays, smart sponsibilities to shareholders. If they can’t Grid Balance to the PJM Interconnection thermostats, smart outlets, a load control prove out the short-term ROI, then they region (13 states including Pennsylva- switch and other devices. will wait until they can or until regula- nia, New Jersey and Maryland) and has The company deploys its software and tions change.” So rather than marketing to recently been awarded a contract for Grid devices in contracts with utilities and a broad base of utility customers, Tendril Balance from the Independent Electricity power marketers, including Duke Energy, will focus on executing well with “a hand- System Operator in Ontario. In addi- NStar, Kansas City Power & Light, San ful of top-tier customers. … This is the tion to water treatment and wastewater Diego Gas & Electric and Origin Energy new race—to win the meaningful deals treatment plants, ENBALA is prioritizing in Australia. Tendril has less than 100 with the most innovative and progressive chillers in cold storage facilities, HVAC employees and more than 500 third-party utilities who are ready to go to scale [and systems at auto assembly plants, hospitals app developers using its platform. As to be well] positioned to capture major and universities, among other types of a privately held firm, Tendril does not market share when the rest of the industry industrial and commercial organizations. disclose other metrics. But a December is ready.” 2012 blog post reveals that the company is Silver For investors, Tuck promises that “A falling short of its growth expectations— Tendril (Boulder, Colo.) for pioneering more laser-focused Tendril will be profit- no surprise for a startup in an emerging technology for the emerging home energy able. Tendril has made the important step segment from which both Google and management (HEM) market, through to wean ourselves off venture capital. Our Microsoft exited in 2011, citing poor which residents will be able to monitor great syndicate of deep-pocket investors consumer adoption. energy consumption and manage usage has just given us growth capital to give the for greater efficiency and to participate The bracingly honest post, written management team options for growth, but in residential demand response (DR) in the first person, presumably by CEO 2013 will be our first profitable year—ut- programs. Adrian Tuck, indicates that the firm mis- terly liberating in these lean venture calculated how quickly its most important capital times.” Named in March 2012 as one of the customer segment, electric power utilities, top 10 New Energy Pioneers by Bloom- Technology Merit: Transportation would adopt HEM systems to engage berg New Energy Finance, Tendril has customers in energy management and Silver alliances with heavy hitters in the energy demand response. world: GE and Siemens are investors; and ZeaChem (Lakewood, Colo.) for Tendril’s systems have been integrated “We believed that technology trends, advancing cellulosic biofuel refining tech- with the infrastructure and networks of policy, and consumer sentiment would nology by scaling up its demonstration Elster, Itron, Landis + Gyr, Sensus, Silver usher in a new era of energy manage- plant in Boardman, Ore., to a 25 million Spring Networks and Trilliant. ment,” the post states. With funding from gallon per year (GPY) commercial-scale November-December 2012 Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry Climate Change Business Journal ethanol biorefinery, aided by a $232.5 mil- Technology Merit: Low Carbon & pioneering services is the delivery of accu- lion USDA loan guarantee (still condi- Renewable Power rate forecasts, ranging from next-hour to tional at CCBJ’s deadline). According to multiple days ahead, of energy production Biofuels Digest, the biorefinery aims to Gold for nearly 20 GW of installed wind and produce “up to 135 gallons of ethanol per AER (Lexington, Mass.) for develop- solar capacity in North America, Europe ton of poplar biomass, with local growers ing new approaches and methods for and India. aiming for as much as 16 tons of biomass measuring and forecasting solar and wind To deliver this capability, AWST draws per acre. That’s more than 2,000 gallons resources which can allow renewable on world-class atmospheric modeling per acre, or four times the yields with corn power plant developers to measure more systems and advanced statistical tools that ethanol.” accurately both long-term production and have been optimized for local climates. short-term variations in resource avail- The Boardman plant will use These services have been instrumental in ability. For concentrating solar (thermal) ZeaChem’s proprietary bacteria in a facilitating the economic integration of power projects, AER has developed a solar multi-stage fermentation process to break significant amounts of variable renewable irradiance forecast specifically tailored down sugars in biomass feedstocks—both generation into existing electric grids, and to the needs of CSP. A combination of purpose-grown poplar and wheat straw they will become even more significant customized weather modeling and ad- from area farms—to produce acetic acid as the grid penetration of wind and solar vanced statistical techniques, the forecast which can be converted into ethyl acetate resources increases rapidly in parts of technique has been presented at industry and then into ethanol. As ZeaChem notes Europe, North America and elsewhere. conferences including the American on its website, it is also developing an- Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Recent forecasting enhancements other product platform which it calls C2 Meeting’s Energy conference. have focused on zero to six-hour ahead (two-carbon atom) to produce cellulose- time horizons when transmission system based jet fuel and diesel in addition to the In 2012, AER also innovated a new operating costs and reliability can be ethanol precursors. method specifically designed for the challenged by sudden changes in wind or offshore wind energy market to provide As CCBJ readers know, cellulosic etha- solar conditions that result in unexpected synthetic 30-year climatologies—at nol and other advanced biofuels represent ramping up or down of energy produc- ultra-high space and time resolution—of the future of biofuels. The federal Renew- tion. Through 2012 AWST led a $3.1 wind at hub height. This approach, a able Fuel Standard requires fuel market- million DOE-funded multi-stakeholder hybrid physical modeling and statistical ers to cap their use of corn ethanol at 15 research initiative (including NOAA as a approaches, provides project stakeholders BGY and to use an increasing propor- key collaborator) to improve forecasting with the ability to reliably assess prospec- tion of advanced biofuels through 2020. skill and utility value for wind projects tive energy production in any offshore Refineries operating under California’s in Texas, the state with the largest wind lease area without the presence of any Low Carbon Fuel Standard will likely capacity. Similar work was completed in ground truth wind observations. rely heavily on advanced biofuels in their 2012 for the Hawaiian Electric Company fuel mix, with the state’s Air Resources AER has presented this new technique for both wind and solar projects. Board having determined that cellulosic at multiple conferences, including Energy Both initiatives rely on higher resolu- ethanol—especially when manufactured Ocean International 2012, the Ameri- tion prediction tools and new weather from municipal solid waste—offers the can Wind Energy Association Offshore surveillance systems. Using innovative best carbon intensity profile on a lifecycle Windpower 2012 and the AMS Confer- observational targeting techniques, these basis (taking into account avoided meth- ence on Energy and the New Economy. systems incorporate LIDAR-based ane emissions as MSW is diverted from atmospheric profilers and other sensing landfills). Gold technologies in locations that yield the AWS Truepower (AWST, Albany, But advanced biofuels technology greatest forecasting skill improvements for N.Y.) for its contribution to advancing the developers have been notoriously over- the desired generation projects. technical frontiers of forecasting energy optimistic about how soon they’ll be production from wind and solar power Gold able to commercialize advanced biomass resources. In its 30th year, AWST is one conversion technologies. So progress by Westinghouse Electric Co. (Pittsburg) of the world’s leading meteorological and ZeaChem and a handful of other firms for doing more than any other company engineering consultancies for the wind will be watched closely over the rest of the worldwide to advance nuclear power and solar energy industries. Among its decade. technology. As the nuclear power industry 10 Climate Change Business Journal Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry November-December 2012 and its regulators worldwide responded to ucts worldwide for PWRs, boiling water Project Merit: Smart Grid & Energy the Fukushima disaster, the focus has been reactors and advanced gas-cooled reactors; Management increasingly on deploying only advanced and services ranging from engineering for third-generation technology which is enhanced reliability and performance to Silver considered inherently safer than existing decommissioning and dismantling. WSP Group (London) for conduct- second-generation reactors. Westing- Silver ing and publishing, in partnership with house’s AP1000 pressurized water reactor the Natural Resource Defense Council (PWR) design is the clear leader in Gen Solar Frontier (Tokyo) for success- (NRDC), a study on the impact of cloud III nuclear technology in the United fully manufacturing and commercializing computing on the environment. A key States, China (where Westinghouse won thin-film solar PV modules using copper goal of the study was to identify the most a competition with AREVA/EDF and indium gallium arsenide (CIGS) materi- energy and carbon efficient IT solutions other bidders for the first third-generation als, which Solar Frontier prefers to label for small- and medium-sized organiza- plants in 2007), Korea, Japan, the United CIS. While cadmium telluride manufac- tions (SMOs). Kingdom, Europe and elsewhere. turer First Solar (CCBJ award winner for growth in 2009) is the hands-down leader To uncover the major factors deter- Along with its design-build partner in thin film, Solar Frontier is in a strong mining how on-premise server rooms and Shaw Group, Westinghouse is supplying second place. A subsidiary of Showa Shell cloud computing stack up in carbon emis- AP1000 reactor designs for all four new Sekiyu K.K., Solar Frontier shipped 577 sions and energy savings, Josh Whitney, reactors (at two sites, Summer in South MW of panels in 2011. At CCBJ’s dead- WSP’s lead author, examined five differ- Carolina and Vogtle in Georgia) currently line, 2012 figures weren’t available but ent scenarios with the goal of making it under construction in the United States, some key announced deals during the year easier for companies to compare options where the AP1000 was the first Gen III show that the firm is continuing its strong and consider sustainability in their deci- reactor design approved by the Nuclear growth and leadership in thin film. sion-making. The analysis used for the Regulatory Commission in 2006. study breaks new ground in identifying First Solar is the module supplier for how best practice, average, and worst-case As noted in CCBJ’s recent edition on enXco/EDF’s 143 MW Catalina Solar scenarios impact environmental perfor- the future of fossil and nuclear power, the Project in Kern County, Calif., and by the mance when modeled across a variety of AP1000 has half as many safety-related end of the year the company had deliv- application and deployment types. valves, far fewer safety-related pipes and ered 80 MW, shipped from Japan in 623 one-third fewer pumps as older reac- containers using steel-resin pallets with The study found that while running a tor design—a passive approach to safety reusable plastic corners, a custom shipping computer application in the cloud is gen- engineering that sees less as being more mode that allows Solar Frontier to pack erally more energy- and carbon-efficient safe and stable. 130% more modules per container, cut its than running it in your server room, the carbon footprint of cloud computing ser- According to Westinghouse, which is logistics carbon footprint by more than vices is highly dependent on a number of majority owned by Toshiba, nearly 50% of 10% and reduce breakage to just 0.002%, important variables that were considered the nuclear plants worldwide use its tech- according to the company. in the analysis, including server utiliza- nology. In addition to developing its own Other major deals for the year include tion factor, electricity carbon emissions technology, Westinghouse has partnered a contract with Japanese convenience store factor for the location of the data center, with other firms to co-develop reactor de- chain Lawson to supply modules to its the power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio, signs. For example, South Korea’s Gen III 2,000 stores in Japan; supplying a 29 MW and hardware efficiency. APR-1400 design is based on the original solar power plant in Germany for Com- Combustion Engineering-Westinghouse Project Merit: Transmission for merzReal, which went into commercial technology that launched the country’s operation in May 2012; forming a JV with Renewable Integration nuclear presence in the late 1970s. Germany’s Belectric, which Solar Frontier Gold Westinghouse’s value proposition goes claims is the world’s largest solar EPC far beyond reactor technology to include firm, to develop, build and sell ground- Mott MacDonald (Croydon, Surrey, nuclear automation to enhance the reli- and roof-mounted PV power plants; and U.K.) for developing MOWFO, a tool ability of plant control and safety systems achieving a record 17.8% aperture area to automate the generation of layouts for through an integrated, plant-wide ap- efficiency in tests by Japan’s New Energy the electrical inter-array cable systems proach; nuclear fuel and fuel-related prod- and Industrial Technology Development of offshore wind farms. By optimizing Organization in February. the layout for total cable length, cost and November-December 2012 Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry Climate Change Business Journal 11 lifetime operational losses, considering ergy decisions by including case studies of an electrical infrastructure already onsite, a range of turbine string configurations existing installations; images of what they further reducing solar development costs including radial, branched and mixed look like; details on how much energy while providing savings to the lessors. designs, MOWFO allows offshore wind they provide; and information on local The Easthamptom Oliver Street developers to reduce their transmission- installers, permitting requirements, and landfill project also pioneered replicable related capex significantly. applicable local, state, and federal incen- mounting techniques that meet the tives. It complements San Francisco’s During 2012, Mott MacDonald used stringent load requirements of landfills. Solar Map, also created by CH2M HILL MOWFO to deliver a range of electrical Borrego Solar’s engineers designed the in 2008, which is credited with supporting design options for several Round 3 U.K. ballasted ground mounted racking system the city’s four-fold increase in solar PV wind farms. The tool allowed rapid and with concrete blocks, each weighing 5,000 installations since 2009. automated assessment of a vast num- lbs. The ballasted system allows for the ber of different layouts to find the best Project Merit: Solar Power installation of the PV modules without overall solution in terms of installed cable Gold penetrating the protective membrane (or CAPEX. For one 1.2 GW wind farm, the cap) of the landfill. Support beams and Borrego Solar (San Diego) for its busi- layout configurations identified by apply- pylons used in traditional ground-mount- ness growth over the last year, and for its ing MOWFO achieved expected capex ed solar energy systems wouldn’t work. innovative engineering work in develop- values of between $210 and $280 million, Additionally, structural engineers deter- ing solar PV projects on capped landfills representing potential savings of up to mined a weight per square foot limitation and designated brownfield sites. By bring- $70 million. According to Mott MacDon- that required the use of special crane and ing its financing and technical expertise to ald, full optimization is impractical due trucking equipment on the property dur- this segment, Borrego Solar is supporting to the size of the mathematical problem; ing the construction process. a trend in which municipal and private however, the MOWFO iterative method, landfill owners are increasingly identify- Silver employing a generic algorithm, provides ing sites with limited reuse potential and a near optimal solution in a practical Tioga Energy (San Francisco) for exploring the development of large-scale timescale. completing in fall 2012 a 3.34 MW distributed generation and net-metered Project Merit: Wind Power distributed solar PV project incorporating solar PV installations. 30 separate publicly owned facilities in Silver In one of the largest capped landfill Union County, N.J. The systems, mounted CH2M HILL (Englewood, Colo.) projects to date, Borrego Solar worked on rooftops and carports at schools, librar- for developing on behalf of the City of with the City of Easthampton, Mass., to ies and other public facilities, range in size San Francisco an innovative Urban Wind develop a 2.3 MW (DC) photovoltaic from less than 10 kW to almost 500 kW. Map enabling residents to enter their ad- system that went online in the summer The project was the result of a pub- dress and instantly learn if their home or of 2012 and is expected to produce 2.8 lic-private partnership begun in 2010 business has good wind energy poten- GWh annually, contributing substantially between Tioga and Union County tial. CH2M HILL developed the new to the city’s general fund and its clean Improvement Authority, a public agency map—integrating 3-D models for every energy goals, making the City of East- that assists local governments in Union building in San Francisco with computa- hampton one of the state Department County to finance infrastructure projects. tional fluid dynamics to characterize wind of Energy Resources’ designated Green After responding to a UCIA request for flows through the City’s downtown core Communities. proposals, Tioga and the public agency and residential neighborhoods. Borrego Solar and other PV developers worked out a financing arrangement to By simulating various wind condi- are targeting capped landfills as ideal loca- make the most out of the public agency’s tions, combined with meteorological tions, because in most cases the properties bond authority, revenue streams from data, a single wind layer was developed can’t be developed for anything else. Ad- solar renewable energy credits (SRECs), showing wind hot and cold spots for the ditionally, the generated savings from the electricity payments from the public agen- City’s more than 550,000 structures. Hot solar power installations can offset O&M cies receiving the power and the federal spots align with the highest elevations, costs currently plaguing the cities where 1603 grant in-lieu-of tax credit program. while cold spots form in the lee of large the sites reside. Landfills with existing The UCIA issued Guaranteed Renew- structures. The interactive website helps gas-to-energy projects are more ideal for able Energy Program Lease Bonds in residents make informed renewable en- solar energy systems, because they have 2011, then used the proceeds to pay Tioga 12 Climate Change Business Journal Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry November-December 2012

Energy to build the systems. In a sale- Last year, MCE signed a 20-year Project Merit: Climate Change leaseback arrangement, the UCIA retained PPA with developers of a 972 kW PV Adaptation title to the assets, then leased the systems project—the largest in the county to to Tioga, whose payments met UCIA’s date—that is spread across aircraft hangar Gold financing costs and covered its professional rooftops at the San Rafael Airport. And AECOM (Los Angeles) for working fees for project development, according to it is looking for more projects up to its with the Asian Development Bank, the the UCIA’s report on the projects. 10 MW cap. (Energy from renewable German KfW Development Bank and projects can also be developed to directly collaborators, including local Bangladeshi Tioga Energy sells power to the host offset usage through MCE’s Net Energy firms, to prepare a $150-million project facilities at rates approximately 50% lower Metering program in which production which created recommendations and pilot than those of the local utility for 15 year is credited at the retail rate plus a $.01/ projects to enhance climate resilience terms using Tioga’s open-source Sure- kwh.) The airport project was developed by improving coastal infrastructure in Path Solar power purchase agreement. by REP Energy, is being constructed Bangladesh. As summarized in the Sep- All systems were installed through a joint by Synapse Electric, and was financed tember 2012 Coastal Climate Resilient venture between Pro-Tech Energy Solu- 50% by Bank of Marin and 50% by Joe Infrastructure Project report, principally tions and Huen Electric, Inc. with envi- Shekou, a developer who owns the airport. written by AECOM Asia, Bangladesh ronmental and engineering management is one of the most vulnerable countries firm Whitman providing design services. MCE is the first instance of a local worldwide to climate change because of energy procurement and marketing entity Although Tioga Energy designed these its geographical location, low floodplain, formed in California through what is systems to withstand extreme weather erratic monsoons and extreme climate known as community choice aggregation. conditions, no one expected an immediate events. CCAs like MCE take over energy buying structural strength test. Hurricane Sandy and selling from the local investor-owned AECOM assembled an international ripped through Union County in October, utility—in this case Pacific Gas & Elec- multi-disciplinary technical team includ- forcing 13 towns in the region to declare tric—while the utility continues delivering ing climate change specialists, civil engi- a state of emergency. In the aftermath of the energy and operating and maintain- neers, hydrologists and social development the storm, each of the 30 solar installa- ing the grid in exchange for a per-kWh and safeguard specialists from various tions emerged unscathed. surcharge. countries to develop a knowledge transfer framework and long-term development Bronze Enabled by legislation intended to strategy in building capacity to adapt to Marin Energy Authority (San Rafael, address the market power abuses that climate change. Calif.) for leveraging its liberal communi- contributed to the 2000-2001 California ty’s support for clean renewable power to energy crisis, the CCA model has become After assessing potential climate create a robust local feed-in tariff program a rallying point for those who want to see change impacts and local situations, that is spurring investment in distributed even higher proportions of renewable en- AECOM recommended climate proofing solar PV and other renewable projects. ergy on the California grid than the 33% options for engineering and non-engi- by 2020 currently mandated for investor- neering measures, such as road improve- In a state where many renewable power owned utilities. Since MEA’s founding ments, cyclone shelters, and knowledge advocates have looked longingly for more in 2010, other local governments have management to enhance resilience of local than a decade at the favorable FiT policies joined, including the City of Richmond, infrastructures to climate change. The in Europe, the state has only adopted a and MEA’s customer base is expected study placed special emphasis on roads market-reference price FiT that hasn’t to be more than 110,000 by Q2 2013, because these are both highly important stimulated significant investment. The FiT according to California Energy Markets. to rural economic development and highly offered by MEA’s Marin Clean Energy More than a dozen other California local vulnerable to climate change impacts. division is a 20-year power purchase governments, including a consortium in agreement at wholesale prices starting the East Bay, are either developing CCAs The study, while enhancing living at $100.57 per MWh for intermittent or exploring the option. conditions and sustainability, will also sources (wind), $116.49 for baseload improve livelihoods in 12 rural coastal energy (landfill gas, biomass, and fuel cell) districts by providing economic opportu- and $137.66 for renewables that deliver nities through enhanced climate resil- peak energy (photovoltaic solar and solar ience of coastal infrastructure along the thermal). south-western coastline which is prone November-December 2012 Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry Climate Change Business Journal 13 to extensive climate variability. AECOM the Baseline Assessment, and aims to as- systems. Harvest has three projects that estimates that implementation of the sist tourism facilities, representative bodies will generate over 7MW of renewable recommendations will benefit some 3.5 and potential investors to broadly assess energy. Its Energy Garden in British million people with employment and their vulnerability to climate change. Columbia, which uses technology licensed income opportunities and better access to from Germany’s GICON, began com- social services as a result of the project. In Bronze missioning in November 2012. Harvest addition, 13,000 government officials and CH2M HILL (Englewood, Colo.) for calls this the first commercial-scale, high others will be trained in climate resilience, managing Smart Water Now, a dynamic solids anaerobic digestion system in safeguards, knowledge management and water measurement and efficiency pro- North America and supports the Metro project management. Population below gram designed to create social, economic, Vancouver’s region’s commitment to Zero the poverty line in the high-risk project and environmental value in Charlotte, Waste targets. areas is envisaged to reduce by 10 percent- N.C. Implemented by Envision Charlotte, Harvest’s Energy Garden in London, age points from 35% by 2020. a public-private initiative linking sustain- Ontario, processing some 70,000 tons ability with economic development, the of organic waste from food processors Silver program aims to transform how energy annually, also began commissioning in Golder Associates (Atlanta, Ga.) for and water are consumed and managed. 2012. And Harvest started construction working in cooperation with the School Like its sister energy program, Smart on an Energy Garden in central Florida of Bioresource Engineering and Environ- Water Now collects and displays wa- that will cost-effectively treat municipal mental Hydrology at the University of ter usage in Charlotte’s central busi- biosolids and regional food waste while KwaZulu-Natal to develop a baseline as- ness district, then drives awareness and generating renewable electricity. sessment of climate change vulnerabilities behavior change to reduce consumption of South Africa’s tourism industry and an Harvest currently operates 26 sites in and promote conservation. Launched in accompanying Basic Guideline for Vul- North America and employs 435 people October 2012, the program allows build- nerability Assessment. The research report (over 200 more than in 2011). The coming occupants to track water consumption and guidelines focus on the key climate pany manages more than 2 million tons in real time on interactive kiosks, smart change vulnerabilities of South Africa’s per year of organics and sells more than phones and online. Its mission is to reduce tourism industry, which was estimated at 28 million bags of soil and mulch annu- consumption in participating buildings by $22 billion in 2009, roughly 8% of GDP, ally. Harvest was named to the Global 20 percent over the next five years. and is expected to grow to more than $55 CleanTech 100 for the 3rd year in a row billion by 2020, according to government By converging the website’s energy and and won the KPMG 2012 Infrastructure projections. water data under a unified, common plat- 100 World Cities Edition award. A no- form, Charlotte is positioned to become table highlight from 2012 was a success- The vulnerabilities include physi- one of the country’s most environmentally ful Series C fundraising round of $125 cal impacts such as higher temperatures, sustainable urban centers and a global million, one of the largest capital raises in increased frequency and intensity of heavy model for smart cities. CH2M HILL recent cleantech history. rains, prolonged periods with no rain, heat serves as the project’s program manager. waves and sea level rise. Additionally, the Additional partners include Itron, Veri- Project Merit: Energy Efficiency industry may experience pressures associ- zon, Siemens, and the City of Charlotte ated with the low carbon economy, policies Gold and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities that require reductions in energy and fuel Department (CMUD), which support PMC (Oakland, Calif.) for its ground- usage and carbon emissions and develop- the Envision Charlotte vision and play a breaking work with the San Gabriel ment of other sustainable tourism practices. foundational role. Valley Council of Governments (SGV- These vulnerabilities are assessed in the COG) and Southern California Edison to context of tourism services and energy, Project Merit: Other Renewable & develop regional energy efficiency climate human health, food security, water and Low-Carbon Power action plans (EECAPs) for 27 cities agriculture, tourism business continuity in the San Gabriel Valley in Southern Silver and biodiversity, as they relate to South California. Starting with community Africa’s diverse tourism zones. Harvest Power (Waltham, Mass.) for and stakeholder outreach—including 35 achieving milestones for growth, projects, workshops, meetings and presentations The Guideline accompanying the re- awards and capital fundraising for its in- and 1,839 energy action surveys con- port is based on the principles outlined in novative approaches to waste-to-energy ducted with individuals—PMC assessed 14 Climate Change Business Journal Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry November-December 2012 and compared energy trends and energy can be generated with energy efficiency instead of emphasizing the apocalyptic efficiency opportunities at a regional scale. measures. In 2012, EEFG launched its consequences of global warming—engen- Efficiency Sales Professional Institute and dering “helplessness and isolation among Then the firm prepared a Planning and debuted the Efficiency Sales Professional would-be supporters”—they should ar- Assessment Report, Best Practices Report, certification program which has been em- ticulate “a positive, transformative vision” and Regional Framework for the 27 cities, braced by long-time client San Diego Gas of a clean-energy economy. each of which developed its own EECAP & Electric and also adopted by the Sacra- in a bottom-up collaborative process that In later papers, speeches and books— mento Municipal Utility District, which was shaped by the identified regional including Breakthrough: From the Death will underwrite half the $3,000 tuition for goals, priorities, and strategies. of Environmentalism (2007) and Love sales professionals in its territory to attend Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism a March ESP training. EECAPs include a baseline inventory and the Anthropocene (2011)—Nordhaus and forecast of each community’s energy The ESP program is a six-day boot and Shellenberger have deconstructed use and activities, both for municipal camp featuring 48 hours of instruction the environmental movement’s found- operations and community-wide activities. and paired with a yearlong support net- ing myths, pointing out that it emerged The EECAPs not only aim to accomplish work. EEFG President Mark Jewell says it not just in response to unprecedented each city’s goals and assist in meeting the is “finely tuned to address the challenges” pollution but when middle-class pros- regional goals, they allow the jurisdictions of the energy efficiency industry, drawing perity allowed Americans to experience to comply with California’s legislative on the experience “‘sales rock stars’ who and appreciate the environment as never mandates that require consideration of have collectively brought energy solutions before—and gave them the time and flex- climate and energy impacts in community to more than three billion square feet ibility to organize. planning. of buildings over the last two decades.” To expect Brazilians or Chinese to In testimonials provided to CCBJ, ESP In total, the 27 EECAPs target the choose “a development path fundamen- training graduates called the program following savings by 2020: 409 million tally different from the one pursued by “very valuable and enjoyable,” “one of the kWh saved by residents with the average the West is naïve,” say Nordhaus and most effective, worthwhile training ses- household reducing its energy usage by Shellenberger. Yet many western envi- sions I have attended,” and said it “provid- 16% to save an estimated $160 annually; ronmentalists living with “unprecedented ed greater clarity and specific action items 655 million kWh saved by commercial, levels of wealth and security … reject to move approval of projects forward.” industrial and institutional energy users; 18 economic growth as a measure of well-be- million kWh saved by municipal entities. NGO Activist Award ing, tell cautionary tales about modernity and technology and warn of overpopula- The intense 15-month project culmi- Gold nated with a September 2012 regional tion now that [their societies] are wealthy climate change conference, led by PMC The Breakthrough Institute (Oakland, [and] no longer growing.” Calif.) for critiquing the narrow thinking and the SGVCOG, where the participat- In Love Your Monsters, Nordhaus, and overly alarmist perspective of much ing cities shared strategies and lessons Shellenberger and other writers argue that of the U.S. environmentalist movement learned and discussed how to facilitate the “eco-theological” viewpoint that says and challenging environmentalists to take implementation and collaboration at a “ecological problems are the consequence a broader focus that incorporates support regional scale. The project was funded by of human violations of a separate “nature” for economic development, social justice SCE ratepayers through a surcharge for must be replaced with a “modernization and technological and engineering ap- the California Long-term Energy Ef- theology.” This modernization celebrates proaches to solving global warming. ficiency Strategic Plan. “the technologies that led our prehu- Silver In their groundbreaking 2004 essay, man ancestors to evolve” and embraces The Death of Environmentalism, Insti- genetic engineering of drought-resistant Energy Efficiency Funding Group tute founders Ted Nordhaus and Michael crops, carbon capture and storage, massive (San Francisco) for ramping up the train- Shellenberger urged environmental lead- coastal protection infrastructure and other ing opportunities it provides for energy ers to stop focusing on unwinnable policy technical and engineering solutions to efficiency sales professionals to become fights, like getting the U.S. Senate to adapt to climate change. “financial ninjas” and make compelling ratify Kyoto, and instead to seek common business cases that show prospective Climate Pragmatism, a 2011 paper by ground with labor by supporting clean clients the true return on investment that the Hartwell Group and co-authored by energy policies that would create jobs; and November-December 2012 Strategic Information for the Climate Change Industry Climate Change Business Journal 15

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Figures include broke with the U.S. renewable power in- industry in the U.S. Batteries and fuel cells U.S. and global sales & growth in PV for transportation and other non-consumer dustry to say that it was time for produc- and solar thermal equipment & systems; uses represent an additional $14 billion. tion subsidies—which they tallied at $150 value of electric energy from PV and This report covers policy and market billion so far—to sunset and be replaced concentrating solar thermal power; and drivers, technologies and business models. with innovation funding that would allow heat and hot water from solar water heating units. ◊ Green Building: 4500 wind and solar in particular to achieve ◊ Wind Energy: 4120 Market breakdowns and forecasts by “subsidy independence.” In November Global coverage of wind turbine mftg; competitor and client type; regional 2012, Nordhaus and Shellenberger issued project development; & global, national, variations in regulations, certifications and a paper (based on a speech to the Colo- regional and state wind energy markets. building practices. rado Oil and Gas Association) urging the Charts of turbine sales, marketshare, ◊ Transportation: 4600 gas industry to embrace tighter regulation wind generated electricity sales, installed Assessment and quantitative analysis and environmentalists to “consider wheth- capacity, plus profiles. of transportation business opportunities er [expanding domestic gas consumption] ◊ Bioenergy & Biofuels: 4130 resulting from climate change policy Forecasts for the U.S. bioenergy might be a different path to significant ◊ Carbon Markets: 4700 industry; global ethanol production; lists Estimates regulated and voluntary carbon emissions reduction from the on they of top U.S. biodiesel plants; profiles trading activity and explores carbon have pursued over the last 20 years.” of companies in biomass gasification, emissions brokerages, voluntary offset anaerobic digestion, landfill-gas-to-energy markets, agricultural and forestry offsets, Writing on Slate.com in December and conventional combustion. 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