City Meeting: Discussion on Energy Programs and Business Targeting (September 16, 2021)
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City Meeting: Discussion on Energy Programs and Business Targeting
[Introductory paragraph summarizing the overall meeting.]
Discussion Items
- A presentation on energy programs for businesses was given, followed by a Q&A. A questioner noted that consumption is highest for larger businesses and questioned why the program targets small and medium-sized businesses. The presenter clarified that there is a separate program for large businesses and industry, and the current program is part of a menu of offerings.
- A second question from Kathleen inquired about peak demand contributions by business sector. Julie (or Laurel) responded that further analysis could be done to target specific sectors driving peak demand, and they would take the suggestion back.
Key Outcomes
- No formal decisions or votes were recorded. The suggestion for additional analysis on peak demand targeting was noted for future consideration.
Meeting Transcript
Like a wonderful program, and we are pleased to hear about it. This is I'm creation with Climate Action Campaign. I'm curious, um, based on the last graphic that we saw that showed consumption um being highest for larger businesses. Why you're targeting the small and the medium sized businesses? Yeah, that's that's a great question. Um we do have another program, and it's a great transition to our next slide. We do have another program that does focus on large uh businesses and industry. So we want to spread the opportunity across all uh communities and stakeholders and businesses throughout OCPA's territory. Um so we'll have programs they address um specific needs, but we do have one next that addresses the large and uh businesses and industrial customers. And I and I will add that these are not in any sort of prioritized order. They're just um so this one is not more important than the next one or so on. Um they're just this is just our menu of programs right now. Okay, great. Thank you for that clarification. Yes, Kathleen, hold on, let me get you in the microphone. So this is probably for Julie. Um I couldn't quite see the bottom row on on the bar graph, but I was curious with respect to the peak demand. Um, is there a business sector that is you know it contributing disproportionately to that peak demand? I mean, are we can we knock off the top by going at certain business sectors or is it really an across the board issue for all sizes of residential and commercial? I I can answer that, Julie, if you'd like. So this is on Laurel. I was just gonna comment that you know it great suggestion or or comment. Um so this is just a high level view, and then once we're getting into the actual um details of further program design and actually even rolling programs out, there would be definitely additional analysis for that targeting, as you're mentioning. But um you may be even thinking, well, if we know what kind of um customer type is is really driving this, perhaps designing a program uh directly around them. Is that yeah, I'm seeing in the head nod, and absolutely agree, and that's perhaps something we could do with some additional analysis. So we can we can take that back. Thank you. Okay, seeing no other hands, we'll move on to the next program. Okay, thank you, Tony. All right, so I'm this I think gets to your question here. So this next program concept is hands-on energy project support for customers that are large energy users. So the idea behind this program is to provide in depth, holistic, long term customer.
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