Presentation - Low-Income Public Benefits Program

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ATTACHMENT A CITY OF COLTON CONSERVATION PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS 1. SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSING LOW-INCOME ENERGY AUDIT PROGRAM General Program Description: Single -Family Housing Low -Income Energy Audit Program is part of Colton Public Utilities' (CPU) Low -Income Energy Assistance Program. The overall goal of CPU's Low -Income Energy Assistance Program is to identify the low-income customers with the highest energy bills and perform energy audits to determine the cause of the high bills and to take actions that will reduce energy use and costs. Method of Delivery: The audits will be performed by Colton Public Utilities and San Bernardino County's Community Services Weatherization Division. The audits will determine the major causes of high-energy use and will provide 1. Information to customers on how to reduce energy use. 2. Adjustment, cleaning, tune up or minor repairs of electric water heaters, air conditioners, and refrigerators. 3. Replacement of the most energy wasting electric water heaters and refrigerators with new efficient units. Air conditioning replacement would be covered by the evaporative cooler program. The financial incentive for these program would be reduced energy bills, free services, and possible appliance replacement. Marketing: The major marketing for low-income energy programs will be a bill stuffer announcing a credit on the Public Benefits Charge for income qualified customers. Customers who qualify for this program will have a LI code on the customer billing system that will allow us to print out a list of all qualified customers in order of electricity costs. The low-income customers with the highest bills will be contacted and an audit will be scheduled to determine the cause of the high-energy use. Also customers that apply for county energy assistance will be enrolled in this program. Energy Services, Customer Services, and Community Services will work together on outreach and intake for this program. M&V Implementation Plan: The customers who will receive assistance from this program are targeted based on energy use history, so that an energy use history will be created prior to any audits or work. The prior history will be compared to post audit and improvements energy use. Also specific appliances and equipment will be metered by a plug in appliance meter or a circuit can be monitored with split coil current probes and a recording device such as a HOBO data collection system. Colton Energy Services and San Bernardino Community Services will work together on M&V activities and funding costs are included in this SCPPA funding requests. Some meters and data loggers have already been purchased by Colton Public Utilities as part of it PB program. M&V Key Elements: Determination of Baseline Power Usage: Historic bills of qualified customers will be analyzed to determine baseline usage. 1