Preliminary Tactics & Recommendations
Below are developing strategies and tactics for TCLP’s Climate Action Plan. Please take the opportunity to provide feedback here.
Energy Portfolio & Impactful Energy Utilization
- Decarbonization decision making
- Continue to invest in renewables and electric storage
- Minimize and eventually eliminate fossil fuel utilization
- Leverage and encourage distributed energy resources
- Increase energy efficiency strategy efforts with investments and rebates
- Increase demand response strategy efforts
- Updated rate designs (i.e. time of use, electric transportation and heating)
- Explore innovation and demonstration projects (i.e. microgrids, local renewable siting)
- Significant efforts towards community energy literacy
Customer Programs: Commercial & Industrial, Residential
- Encourage and enable customer utilization of available federal, state and local funding opportunities
- Develop integrated energy programs that leverages and couples the following tactics:
- Energy efficiency investments
- Electrification (building & transportation)
- Solar & storage placements
- Demand response
- Target electrification and solar placement barriers with rebate offerings
- Building electric system updates
- Vehicle charging equipment
- Building envelope and heating comfort
- Emergency backup needs
- Rebates and investments designed to address all decision-making costs (i.e. energy, infrastructure, societal)
- Promote and expand utilization of on-bill financing programs
- Partner with contractors and building trades leaders to increase education and enhance the electrification journey
- Partner with local and regional groups to increase electric living and commercial operations readiness
- Residential and Commercial kitchens
- Hospitality businesses (heating and cooling spaces)
- Electric Vehicle guests
Renewables, Journey, Decarbonization, Battery Storage
- Evaluate value and feasibility of ground-source or water-source district heating and cooling utility
- Pair rebates and other financial incentives with demand response program participation
- Encourage and promote demand response program participation in order to accomplish the following:
- Inform equipment operations about time-of-use rate schedules.
- Allow real-time management of demand within customer-friendly limits
- Allow (at customer option) emergency management of demand as needed to qualify as MISO capacity resources.