Community Energy Partnerships Program - Jennifer Taylor, CEPP

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Project Neutral Summit

Jennifer Ta lor

June 9, 2012


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CEPP Overview

A grant program created under the Green Energy Act (2009)

Provides early stage funding to cover soft costs of project

Current maximum total CEPP grant is $200,000 per project

Co-mana ed b the Communit Power Fund and Deloitte forthe Ontario Power Authority (OPA)


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Program Objectives

Encourage a high level of local community engagement,participation and investment in development of renewableenergy generation facilities

Provide funding for a diversity of technologies, organizationaland community types, and geographic regions in Ontario

eve p ay ng e or groups a may e exc u e romrenewable energy development

Encourage local partnerships and help community partners

maximize their equity share


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CEPP Program Status

Currently on hold, stopped accepting applications in March dueto the ongoing review of the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program

o gran s approve s nce anuary

Continue to manage existing grants

Likely to be significant changes to realign the CEPP with FIT2.0

Target re-launch July 2012


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CEPP 1.0 Eligibility

Size Between 10 kW and 10 MW (no upper size limit for co-

Applicants had to satisfy allof the following criteria:

ops)

Technology Wind, solar PV, biomass, biogas, landfill gas or

Location Ontario

Business case Economicall viable and sub ect of future FIT

contract

Developer A community


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Current Definition of Community

Applicant had to be 100% community as defined in FIT 1.0 Rules

cannot have commercial electricity generation as

(b) Registered charity

(b) Not-for-profit organization

d Co-o

their primary business or employment

(e) Private corporation

(f) Limited partnership

all shareholders / partners must be (a) (d) above;none of them can have commercial electricitygeneration as their primary business or employment

Joint ventures with non-community partners are permitted


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Funded Activities Grant 1Design & Development Phase

Site investigation and control Resource assessment

Environmental and regulatory approvals analysis

Business plan development

Community consultation

Engineering studies

ro ec manager or ro ec coor na or Legal costs


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Funded Activities Grant 2Regulatory Approvals Phase

Renewable Energy Approval (REA) Final Business Plan

Connection Impact Assessment

Supplier and O&M agreements, construction contracts

Offering Document / Membership agreement

Sales and Marketing Plan (to find Members /

nves ors Project Management or coordination


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Grants Awarded

As of January 2012:

Representing over 93 MW of new, community-ownedrenewable energy projects


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FIT Program Overview

FIT program offers a guaranteed pricing structure for REproduction stable prices under long-term contracts

, , , , ,developers

Prices vary by technology

Very popular - high volume of FIT applications

>10,000 applications, ~2,000 signed contracts


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FIT 2.0

Currently draft rules

Price reductions for solar and wind

Procurement limits - application windows for specific FITproject types

A lication rioritization and rankin throu h oint s stem

Increased Land Class Restrictions on ground mount solar


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Draft Priority Point System

PROJECTTYPE NONPROJECTTYPE

CommunityPart.Project (3) MunicipalCouncilSupportRes.

AboriginalPart.Project (3) AboriginalSupportRes. (2)

.

EducationorHealthHost (2)

SystemBenefit

(1)


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uccess u pp cants

Boys and Girls Club of London Solar Rooftop

Applicant: Boys and Girls Club ofLondon Foundation

Location: London, ON

Or anization: Charit

Grant Awarded: $74,950

Project Size: 138 kW

: omm ss one ay,


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uccess u pp cants


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Buckhorn Community Centre Solar Rooftop

Applicant: Buckhorn CommunityCentre

Location: Buckhorn, ON

Organization: Not-for-profit ran s war e : ,

Project Size: 74 kW

Status: Commissioned Feb, 2012


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SolarShare WaterView Project

Applicant: SolarShare Co-operative

,Mississauga

Organization: Co-op ran s war e : ,

Project Size: 438 kW (2.5 acres!!)

Status: Commissioned July, 2011


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ForProfitCoop NonProfitCoop OtherNon

Profit/Charities

nvestment

n ts ares on s on s

Returns Dividends InterestPayments InterestPayments

Distributionof

Profits

ToShareholders Tofulfill

organizations

mission

Tofulfill

organizations

mission

Regulator FSCO FSCO OSC

ommun y er ng

Approval

one enevo en

purposeexemption

met,orOSC

society

society

Governance OneMember,One

Vote

OneMember,One

Vote

OneMember,One

Vote

Examples OttawaRECoop SolarShare Boys&GirlsClub


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Resources

CEPP www.communityenergyprogram.ca

Boys and Girls Club of London www.bgclondon.ca/

Buckhorn Community Centre www.buckhorncommunitycentre.com/solar/

SolarShare www.trec.on.ca/generation/solarshare

e n ar o o-opera ve ssoc a on www.on ar o.coop

Ontario Power Authority www.fit.powerauthority.on.ca

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