1. Environmental Sustainability Manager
Urbana Solar Work
Scott R. Tess
Environmental Sustainability Manager

2. Bulk Solar Partnered with MREA
Bid a single solar installer for limited time, city sponsored, bulk purchase, fixed price
81 contracts for 605kw in round one
Likely to reach 150kw in our current round
Education, lower price, local market development

3. Facilities Solar PPA Started procurement before FEJA
Behind the meter installation at city facility
Third party ownership
25 year power purchase agreement
Essentially cost neutral
Kept last 20 years of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs)

4. SolSmart - NREL
Scenario
0. Base Case
1. Cost Effective PV + Storage
PV size (kW) 23
PV cost ($) $0
$79,120
PV energy production (kWh)
27,142
Battery Size (kW) -
Battery Size (kWh)
Battery Cost ($)
Percent RE (%) 0%
100%
Life Cycle Costs
$31,731
$53,356
Net present value ($)
-$21,625
Using the RTP data, the lifecycle cost of energy in the base case is $31,000, about 50% less than the current rate1
Current rate: $0.092/kWh
RTP blended rate: $0.044/kWh
With the RTP rate, neither PV nor battery appears cost effective
1This includes only the delivery costs and day ahead prices; any additional riders that are part of this tariff would increase the lifecycle cost

5. Solar Status Quo Ante FEJA
FEJA is Future Energy Jobs Act
Solar behind the meter with no distribution
Utility scale solar paid avoided cost rate
No meter aggregation (virtual net metering)
State REC purchase (subsidy) for distributed

6. Solar Status Quo Post FEJA
New bundle of state REC purchases
Distributed generation incentive
Low-income distributed generation incentive
Low-Income Community Solar Project Initiative
Incentives for non -profits and public facilities
Low-Income Community Solar Pilot Projects
Community Solar incentive
Utility scale solar incentive
Brownfield solar incentive
Utilities obligated to provide Meter Aggregation at least for state incentivized production

7. Urbana’s Closed Landfill
10-40 acres of developable space
Not perfectly flat, nor gently sloping in all places
Appears to be two electrical substations within 1.5 miles

8. Timeframe
Some utility scale procurements already underway or completed
Draft IL Power Authority (IPA) plan for block pricing and competitive REC procurements should be filed in September-ish
Final IL Commerce Commission approval is expected in March 2018

9. Community Solar State REC purchases 15 year contracts
Payments are front loaded
Fixed price rather than auction (block)
2mw max
Cs, utility, brownfield are 15 year contracts
LI CS Pilot 2mw, cs 2mw

10. Scale 40 acres equals 10mw of capacity
10 megawatts would produce 13,788,917 kwh/year –PVWatts
City of Urbana Facilities and Street Lights use 6,312,097 kwh/year
Alternatively, 10mw could power roughly 1200 households

11. Scale to CAP Goals
6mw is roughly equivalent to 1% reduction from 2007 baseline
1mw is roughly equivalent to 1000 MT of GHG.
At 18% reduction including RECs. 7% without RECs.

12. Potential Procedure
Issue Request For Information after IPA filing in late 2017
Issue RFP soliciting proposals for any of the FEJA incentivized project types in early 2018
Possible evaluation criteria
Total mw size
Lease price
Expected kWh price offered to Urbana off-takers
Property maintenance plan
Overall community benefit

13. At Present Talking with solar developers
Soliciting technical assistance
Reading RFPs from other states