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Hall Tompkins County Community Microgrid Final Report – NY Prize Stage 1: Feasibility Assessment Submitted to: NYSERDA 17 Columbia Circle Albany, NY 12203-6399 Submitted by: Prepared in partnership with: Tompkins County Hitachi Microgrids 125 East Court St. 420 Lexington Ave, Suite 1613 Ithaca, NY 14850 New York, NY 10170 April 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS PROJECT TEAM ............................................................................................................................................... I KEY PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS ........................................................................................................................ I Tompkins County Community Microgrid – Key Overview Metrics ............................................................... II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................. III TECHNICAL DESIGN ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Key Features of the Microgrid ...................................................................................................................... 3 Community Microgrid Controller .............................................................................................................. 3 Telecommunications Infrastructure ......................................................................................................... 7 Communications – Microgrid and Utility .................................................................................................. 8 Distributed Energy Resource Characterization ............................................................................................. 9 Normal and Emergency Operations ........................................................................................................ 10 Geospatial Diagrams and One-Line Subsections .................................................................................... 13 Modeling Methodology .......................................................................................................................... 22 Load Description ..................................................................................................................................... 22 Island Mode Modeling Results ................................................................................................................ 37 FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY ............................................................................................................................... 38 Installed Cost ........................................................................................................................................... 38 Third Party Ownership ............................................................................................................................ 39 Development, Construction, and Operating Approach .......................................................................... 47 PROJECT TEAM ............................................................................................................................................ 48 LEGAL VIABILITY .......................................................................................................................................... 49 Market Barriers ....................................................................................................................................... 50 Regulatory Issues .................................................................................................................................... 50 Privacy ..................................................................................................................................................... 51 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS ................................................................................................................. 51 Appendix A: Tompkins Microgrid Layout Diagram ..................................................................................... 54 Appendix B: Tompkins Microgrid One-Line Diagram .................................................................................. 55 Appendix C: Legal and Regulatory Review .................................................................................................. 56 Appendix D: IEc Benefit-Cost Analysis ........................................................................................................ 77 Appendix E: Acronym Glossary ................................................................................................................ 90 PROJECT TEAM Tompkins County • Ed Marx – Commissioner of Planning • Katie Borgella – Principal Planner Hitachi Microgrids • Erica Hauver • John Westerman • Steve Pullins • Alex Rakow • Brian Levite • Ed Chinevere • Coleman Adams • Mike Uhl • Josh Patten • Urs Gisiger Pace University • Thomas Bourgeois • Daniel Leonhardt • Jordan Gerow GI Energy • Peter Falcier Green Energy Corp. • Paul Gregory KEY PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS • Tompkins County Government • Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport • Cayuga Medical Center and tenants of the Parkview Medical Campus • TST BOCES • Dewitt Middle School • Tenants of the Cornell Business and Technology Park • Courtyard Ithaca Hotel Page | I TOMPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY MICROGRID – KEY OVERVIEW METRICS Team Utilities Lead (Awardee): Tompkins County Electric: NYSEG Technical Lead: Green Energy Corp Gas: NYSEG Additional Hitachi Microgrids, Pace University, Consultants: GI Energy Microgrid System Design Microgrid Financials* Size: 3,470 kW Total Installed Cost: $10,848,000 Load Served: 16,688,040 kWh/yr Net Installed Cost (after ITC): $8,116,000 Resiliency Savings: $ 98,219/yr DER Qty Capacity GHG Offset: $ 249,000/yr Combined Heat & Power: 18 420 kW Anaerobic Digester: 1 800 kW Avg. Current Electricity Cost: $ 0.010/kWh Photovoltaic: 15 2,250 kW * Estimates based on financial modeling Existing Photovoltaic: 3 97 kW Energy Storage Systems: 14 310 kWh Existing Emergency Gen: 7 2,145 kW Supporting Organizations Customer Types Tompkins County Facilities Ithaca Tompkins Regional Gov’t Administrative: 2 Dept. Airport Emergency Services: 3 Cornell University IAD Property Development Municipal Services: 0 Sustainability Education 2 Cornell University Real Tompkins County Climate Health Care: 2 Estate Protection Large Commercial: 6 Village of Lansing NYSEG Small Commercial: 0 Cayuga Medical Center Tompkins County Sheriff Multi-Unit Residential: 0 Tompkins County Chamber Tompkins Dept. of Total: 15 of Commerce Emergency Response Tompkins County Health Dept. Electric Demand & Consumption with Microgrid Benefit Cost Analysis Outputs Max kW Avg kW kWh / yr Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Node 1 1,800 1,631 14,289,684 Days of Major Outage 0 days/yr 0.33 days/yr Node 2 310 274 2,398,356 Total Benefits** $ 16,900,000 $ 23,700,000 Total Costs** $ 23,700,000 $ 23,600,000 Total 2,110 1,905 16,688,040 Net Benefits** $ -6,700,000 $ 84,600 Benefit/Cost Ratio 0.7 1.0 ** Net Present Values Page | II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The New York State Energy Research and Development Program (NYSERDA) established the New York Prize program to stimulate adoption and deployment of community microgrids throughout the state to: • Reduce energy costs • Increase the reliability of the power supply and community resilience • Promote cleaner sources of energy This report describes the results of Stage 1 of the NY Prize Feasibility Assessment for the Tompkins County Community Microgrid. Hitachi Microgrids led the development of the microgrid design according to NYSERDA’s requirements and the needs of and priorities of Tompkins County, using an iterative process that supports the optimization of cost, emissions and resilience goals. Tompkins County led the feasibility