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SCALING Bruce Manclark, Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant, CLEAResult Scaling: What it Takes

© CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 2 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 3 What it Takes to Scale

ACCESS TO LOTS OF COMMUNITY SOLID MANAGEMENT HIGH LEVELS OF POLITICAL WILL MONEY OUTREACH AND DATA QUALITY CONTROL PARTNERS MANAGEMENT

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 4 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 5 BECC 2019 On a National Level …

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 6 CITY OF RESOLUTION 31312

• Passed in 2013 • Goal: Achieve carbon neutrality by 2050

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 7 EcotopeAccordingReports to Ecotope That … • This goal translates into an 81% reduction of natural gas usage

• YES—that means fuel switching in homes with gas and conservation in homes with electricity

8 BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 8 Costs Not Accounted For …

• Transmission and distribution costs • Energy and carbon embedded in program delivery • Climate change resulting from leaked refrigerant

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 9 Assumptions

• Most Seattle homeowners will not choose to weatherize and fuel switch on their own • Homeowners do not want increased energy costs • Homeowners want existing or improved levels of comfort

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 10 The Hood River Conservation Project

Launched in the early 80’s, the project explored the cost effectiveness of a residential energy improvement program.

• From 1983 to 1985, after intense community outreach, 92% of eligible homes were served

• 2600kWh saved per house, which equates to $22,000,000 in 1985 dollars, or $45,000,000 today

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 11 More NW History: Eugene Water and Electric Board

DSM program performance stats for Oregon’s largest customer-owned utility:

• Program staff: 35 • In 1994 5,500 homes participated • 10% of all homes in one year • Between 1983-1995, the program’s cumulative savings total represented 7% of total load

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 12 MEGAPROJECT

>$1 billion projects with substantial impacts on communities and environments

BECC 2019 Grand Coulee Dam

• Constructed 1933-1942 • Largest power station in the US (by nameplate capacity) • Cost $1.8 billion in 2016 dollars

14BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 14 Grand Coulee Dam

• ~8,000 people worked on the dam • Most workers came from surrounding counties, nearly all were men • Bureau of Reclamation provided housing in two cities built for the project (Government Camp and Mason City), primarily for engineers, inspectors, and other Bureau employees • 10,000-12,000 lower-wage laborers lived in more than 10 shanty towns that grew up to house both dam workers and the people who served them

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 15 Scaling Up Calculator

BECC 2019 The General Approach

COLLECT COLLECT ASSUME AUDITING 20% AVERAGE LABOR SOME AND MANAGE- COSTS HOURS EFFICIENCY INSPECTION MENT PER JOB OF SCALE COSTS

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 17 Barriers • Less than 10% of homes have central heat pumps today • The NW has a poor history of getting heat pumps installed correctly • The love affair with gas cooktops • High cost of housing

BECC 2019 And the Answer IS …

Total Installation Cost $3,217,559,698 Admin/Overhead 20% Admin/Overhead Cost $643,511,940 Total Cost $3,861,071,637

Average Cost per Home $19,183 Average Cost per Home/Year $1,918

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 19 How Much Work Is This?

• 346 finished homes per week • 70 per day • About 2,000 active projects at any given time • 8,000 gas furnace converted per year • 10,000 attics insulated per year

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 20 Total Labor

Total number of employee days 1, 459,662

Workdays per year 261

Years of effort 10

Total number of days 2,610

Number of employees per year 559

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About Those

MetLife (/Giants 2010) $1,737 AT&T Stadium (, 2009) $1,318 Levi’s Stadium ( 49ers, 2014) $1,310 US Bank Stadium ( 2016) $1,079 Stadium ( Colts, 2008) $792 ( Bears, 2003) $755 ( Eagles, 2003) $666 ( , 2002) $658 NRC Stadium ( Texans, 2002) $624 (, 2000) $619 Stadium ( Patriots, 2002) $542 Sports Authority Field ( Broncos, 2001) $536

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 22 Seattle’s Highway 99 Tunnel: -2 miles long -6 years to build -$3.3 billion

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BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 23 If 20-Year Bonds Were Sold …

4% 20 Years $4,300,000,000 Interest Rate Loan Length Total Borrowed

$5,934,709,680 $1,476 $24,727,957 Total Cost Over Cost per House Monthly Payment Life of Loan per Year

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 24 PRESENTED AT 2018 Key Points ACEEE

• Pilot programs have proven that high saturation rates are A National Retrofit possible Challenge to Meet the • Average cost $25,000 Paris Goal of 1,5 Degrees • Whole -house retrofits are not cost effective from the current David B. Goldstein, “energy only” point of view Natural Resources Defense Council

Peter Turnbull, Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Cathy Higgins, New Buildings Institute

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 25 Open-Ended Question

Who manages such a project?

BECC 2019 © CLEAResult. All rights reserved. 26 THANK YOU

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