Has anyone done work to calculate their utliity's emissions factor for either the towns served or commercial entities? One of our key account customers is requesting it and I have the information from our AQ31 and AQ32 forms for how much emissions, but not the actual emission factors themselves.
Any help?
LELWD is looking to benchmark solar adoption across residential customers. The goal is to measure where we stand across the state in residential solar adoption. Of course, there are a million things impacting a residents decision to go solar but we hope to see if we need to improve and update our interconnection policies to keep up and encourage adoption.
With that, anyone who is willing to share their solar customer count would be appreciated! It will be helpful to know- (LELD)
Number of single-family homes in service territory (assessor’s office reports this to department of revenue- code 101)(4,318)
Number of residential solar customers (97)
Offering a solar rebate? (Yes $1/Watt)
Side note- if your utility participates in APPA's designation in Smart Energy Provider, this could count for the benchmarking question I.A.4.
MGED
- 9,593 single family homes between Middleboro and Lakeville
- 85 Residential Solar Installations
- Solar Rebate: For Net Metering up to 25kW, $.60 per watt capped at $15,000. For Renewable Distributed Generation 25kW-150kW, $.50 per watt capped at $50,000.
Posting on behalf of Jonathan Fitch:
Does anyone include any weather normalization data printed on your monthly bills or posted on your webpage to help explain high bills in either winter and summer?
We get a fair share of high bill calls without electrification and as we add more electric HVAC, I expect we’ll get more calls. We generally get most high bill calls in the winter resulting from electric radiant heat use. With heat-pumps providing heating and cooling, I expect we’ll get more summer calls in the future.
Currently we print a 12 month billing history on each bill with the following:
Read Date kWh’s kWh’s/day
3/26/2021 750 25
We used to include Heating Degree Day information but took it out with the last bill update because it tended to cause more confusion. Our CSRs have the HDD data to use when a customer calls. We are considering a graph instead.
Hi,
It was recently brought to SELCO's attention by Shrewsbury's Fire Chief that battery systems (residential or commercial) of 20kWh or more are subject to extensive National fire codes to ensure safety in case of a run-away fire, described in Chapter 52 of NFPA 1 (attached). We are wondering if any other utilities have run into issues with this. We are also wondering what you are seeing for typical battery system sizes. 1 of the 3 residential battery system in Shrewsbury is at the 20kWh threshold, but installed before the effective date of this relatively new code.
A simple summary from our fire dept.: "20KWh systems or greater requires permitting through the FD. The code says the system must be supervised for smoke alarms and the NFPA 13 sprinkler system must be supervised. It also states the room the system is stored in must have a 2 hour fire rating. There are no specific provisions for residential one or two family homes. Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS) says the code applies as written."
Hi Ben! We've had a co-op at RMLD do something similar for one of our key accounts--I'll have her get in touch with you about the methodology.