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City staff recommend education and monitoring, not new incentives, in reliability and resiliency plan update
Summary
Staff presented a status update on the Reliability and Resiliency Strategic Plan with cost-benefit findings: time-of-use rates and informational programs are recommended; most incentive programs for batteries/solar currently lack positive cost-benefit; airport microgrid merits further study in coordination with the water-quality-control plant.
Jonathan Abenshein, the City’s Assistant Director for Climate Action, presented a status update Aug. 22 on the Reliability and Resiliency Strategic Plan (RRSP), summarizing cost-benefit analysis of time-of-use (TOU) rates, demand-response measures, battery storage, solar-plus-storage and potential microgrids.
Abenshein said consultants analyzed supply-cost and short-term-resiliency benefits and found that, under current capital and policy assumptions, most incentive-backed measures (residential demand response, residential battery incentives and many commercial storage programs) do not generate net benefits to the community’s supply costs. He said commercial solar-plus-battery projects show more favorable cost-benefit results primarily because short-term resiliency has higher value for commercial customers. The analysis used current capital costs (capital equipment priced in present-day dollars)…
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