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Rocky Mountain Power outlines community performance plan, energy-efficiency and rooftop-alternative solar programs
Summary
Rocky Mountain Power presented a community performance plan to county commissioners, reviewed grant and customer-participation metrics, and described programs including Blue Sky renewable subscriptions, a 20MW community solar project, and Watts Smart energy-efficiency incentives.
Kathy Hoffman, regional business manager for Rocky Mountain Power, briefed the board on the company's community performance plan for Utah County. Hoffman said Rocky Mountain Power serves 96,584 customers in Utah County and delivered about 2.15 billion kilowatt-hours in 2016. She summarized community and foundation grants ($53,755 distributed to county organizations in 2016), customer renewable programs and energy-efficiency initiatives.
Hoffman highlighted the company's Blue Sky renewable subscription program and a 20MW community "scrip" solar facility in Holden, Utah, to which county residents subscribed; she reported 2,671 Blue Sky participants in the county and 290 subscribers to the first scrip solar subscription, which produced an estimated 3,561,600 annual kWh for those subscribers. The company’s Watts Smart energy-efficiency program delivered 6,206,343 kWh saved in Utah County in 2016 and paid $593,036 in incentives.
She also described a small-business direct program to offer energy audits and incentives, a mobile app for customers, and outage coordination practices with local government emergency contacts. Commissioners asked about outreach, listing the county fair among possible community partners and asked the company to provide application materials for county events.
Hoffman said Rocky Mountain Power maintains emergency contact routines and can coordinate outage information and incident response with mayors and city managers in the county. She invited county staff to submit community funding requests and agreed to follow up with application materials for local events.
