Local Law 45 Report December 2018
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Local Law 45 Report December 2018 Energy About DCAS The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) provides value-added and effective shared services to support the operations of New York City government. Its commitment to equity, effectiveness, and sustainability guides its work with City agencies on recruiting, hiring, and training employees; providing facilities management for 55 public buildings; acquiring, selling, and leasing City property; purchasing more than $1 billion in supplies and equipment each year; and implementing conservation and safety programs throughout the City’s facilities and vehicle fleet. Learn more at nyc.gov/dcas About DCAS Energy Management The DCAS Division of Energy Management is at the forefront of the City’s energy conservation and sustainability efforts. It oversees more than 10,000 utility accounts for City government agencies across 4,000 public buildings. It implements creative solutions to reduce energy consumption, promote energy efficiency in public buildings, and to generate clean energy on City-owned properties. The Division manages a $700 million annual energy supply budget and a $2.7 billion 10-year capital budget to develop and implement programs to achieve the City’s One City: Built to Last strategy of an 80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. DCAS DEM Page 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents 3 List of Figures and Tables 4 Executive Summary 5 Section 1. Electricity Usage 7 Context and Data Collection Methodology 7 Electricity Usage Overview 7 Section 2. Real-Time Metering Status 9 Context and Data Collection Methodology 9 Real-Time Metering Overview 9 Section 3. Fossil Fuel and Steam Usage 11 Context and Data Collection Methodology 11 Fossil Fuel and Steam Usage Overview 11 Section 4. Facility Envelope Assessment Status 13 Context and Data Sources 13 Section 5. Conclusion 15 Appendix A. Covered Facilities’ Electricity Usage 16 Appendix B. RTM Status 54 Appendix C. City-Owned Facilities’ Fossil Fuel Usage 81 Appendix D. City-Owned Facilities’ Building Envelope Status 108 DCAS DEM Page 3 List of Figures and Tables Figure 1. Electricity Usage Trends for All Covered families, Fiscal Years 8 Figure 2. RTM Status for All Covered Facilities 10 Figure 3. Sample Thermographic Image of the Existing East Flatbush Library Façade 13 Table 1. Ownership Status of Covered Facilities by Agency/Organization 6 Table 2. Electricity Usage Trends in kWh for All Covered Facilities, 8 Fiscal Years 2014-2018 Table 3. Fossil Fuel and Steam Usage in MMBTUs for All Covered Facilities 12 DCAS DEM Page 4 has increased half a percent for covered facilities Executive Summary as a whole, and fossil fuel and steam usage has decreased by almost ten percent for City-owned covered facilities.4 Considering only those facilities that have been in service for the five previous fiscal years examined, electricity usage as a whole actually This report was prepared in compliance with the decreased one percent, and fossil fuel and steam requirements of Local Law 45 (“LL45”) of 2018. usage decreased by 12 percent. At the facility level, LL45, which was passed in January 2018, requires almost 60 percent of all covered facilities either had the Department of Citywide Administrative Services no change in electricity usage or decreased electricity (“DCAS”), to report on electricity and fossil fuel usage over the past five fiscal years, while 40 percent usage, real-time metering, and assessments of or of covered facilities increased their usage. improvements made to the envelopes of covered facilities. DCAS’s Division of Energy Management Over half of covered facilities already have electricity (“DEM”) prepared this report. The law requires reports RTM installed, and, based on survey results available to be published annually for four years; this is the first as of the time of this report, RTM installation may report. be appropriate and practicable for an additional 32 percent of covered facilities. Thus, 84 percent of LL45 defines a “covered facility” as a facility where covered facilities either have RTMs installed or are the City pays for at least one electricity account which viable for future installations. A very limited number had a peak demand of at least 300 kilowatts (“kW”) of City-owned covered facilities underwent facility over the past fiscal year (Fiscal Year 2018). There envelope assessments in Fiscal Year 2018. are 680 covered facilities as of the end of Fiscal Year 2018 that meet this requirement. A subset of those, has a breakdown of the all covered facilities, representing 620 facilities in total, are owned by the Table 1 with Agency and City-ownership designation. City. Per the requirements of LL45, for all covered Section 1 and have information on covered facilities’ facilities, this report identifies (a) their electricity usage Appendix A electricity usage, and and have over the past fiscal year and change in usage over Section 2 Appendix B information on RTM status. For City-owned covered the last five years; (b) if they have equipment that facilities, and have information allows electricity to be measured and reported in near Section 3 Appendix C on fossil fuel usage, and and real-time, referred to as “real-time meters” (“RTM”);1 Section 4 Appendix D have information on facility envelope status. and (c) if they do not, whether such equipment is “appropriate and practicable,”2 and the expected installation timeline. Reporting the change in electricity usage for all covered facilities enables a comparison of the change for each facility to the overall change 1 In this report, RTMs refers to “electricity usage telemetry for all facilities. For City-owned covered facilities, the equipment” cited in LL45. 2 In this report, RTM installation was not deemed “appropriate report also includes the facilities’ fossil fuel and steam and practicable” if a covered facility’s electricity utility meter room 3 usage over the past fiscal year, the change in fossil was inaccessible or if the Agency/Organization was planning on fuel and steam usage over the last five fiscal years, relocating from the covered facility within the next four years, as and if their facility envelopes have been subject to an reported in the initial Agency survey. 3 assessment within the last year. Fossil fuels include heating fuel oil and natural gas. District steam also is presented as it is produced by the burning of fossil fuels locally. For this report, DEM utilized utility billing data for 4 For leased facilities, costs for heat and hot water are the electricity, natural gas, and steam usage and City responsibility of the landlord and not the tenant, i.e. the City of Agency-reported usage and purchasing records for New York, hence the exclusion of leased facilities from fossil fuel heating fuel oil. To gather data on covered facilities’ consumption reporting. RTM appropriate and practicable status, DEM conducted a survey of City Agencies. The report drew upon a number of data sources to identify facility envelope assessment status. Over the past five fiscal years, total electricity usage DCAS DEM Page 5 Table 11:. AgenciesOwnership/Organizations Status of Covered and Ownership Facilities S tatusby Agency/Organization of Covered Facilities Agencies/Organizations Owned Leased Total DOE 403 12 415 DEP 40 2 42 DCAS 30 2 32 H+H 27 1 28 Cultural Institutions (DCLA) 22 2 24 HRA 3 16 19 DSNY 16 0 16 DPR 14 0 14 DOC 13 0 13 CUNY 11 1 12 ACS 2 8 10 NYPD 8 1 9 NYPL 5 2 7 DOT 5 1 6 Other 1 2 3 DOF 1 3 4 DHS 4 0 4 FDNY 3 1 4 DOHMH 2 1 3 QPL 2 0 2 OCME 2 0 2 DOITT 1 1 2 FIT 2 0 2 OEM 1 0 1 BPL 1 0 1 DFTA 0 1 1 EDC 1 0 1 Law Department 0 1 1 DDC 0 1 1 FISA 0 1 1 Total 620 60 680 December 2018 FINAL REPORT Page 5 of 140 DCAS DEM Page 6 Section 1. Electricity Usage Context and Data Collection Methodology LL45 requires DEM to report on electricity usage over the past fiscal year and the change in usage over the last five fiscal years for covered facilities. Data about electricity usage is drawn from monthly utility billing information. In this report, electricity usage consists of both grid electricity and onsite solar generation.5 Electricity usage data from Fiscal Years 2014 through 2018 were available for this report. Electricity Usage Overview • See Table 2 for the summary of electricity usage data. • Total electricity usage has increased a half percent over the past five fiscal years for all covered facilities.6 When filtering the list of facilities to only those that have been in service for all five fiscal years (664 facilities), electricity usage actually decreased one percent. • 57 percent (387 facilities) of covered facilities either had no change in electricity usage or decreased electricity usage over the past five fiscal years, 23 percent (159 facilities) increased their usage by up to 10 percent, eight percent (56 facilities) increased their electricity usage between 11 to 24 percent, nine percent (62 facilities) of covered facilities increased their usage 25 or more percent, and two percent (16 facilities) of covered facilities did not have electricity data over all five fiscal yearsFigure ( 1). • The small net increase in electricity usage for all covered facilities may be the result of many factors including weather, facility occupancy rates, hours of operation, functional changes, additions in square footage and plug load; such data was not available for this report. • Appendix A lists each facility’s Fiscal Year 2018 electricity usage and change in usage over the past five fiscal years. 5 On-site solar installations began generating electricity at covered facilities in Fiscal Year 2016.