GS Credit: Demand Side Management – Above Green

Applicable to:

Cities and Utilities (1–3 points)
Campuses (1–3 points)
Transit (1–5 points)

INTENT

To achieve permanent reductions in energy demand and consumption through load management and conservation.

REQUIREMENTS

OPTION 1. Energy conservation (Cities and Utilities and Transit, 2 points; Campuses, 1 point)

Cities and Utilities

Through surveys or otherwise, estimate end-use energy consumption for all customer categories. Estimate the potential for energy conservation through energy efficiency improvement of customers’ appliances or processes. Have in place an energy conservation program, at least for residential and agricultural customers, with fixed targets for energy conservation, customer participation, and customer outreach (1 point).

Projects that have implemented at least two energy conservation programs in the past and achieved at least 60% of these programs’ targets can earn 1 additional point.

Campuses

Based on project’s end-use applications, determine the potential for reducing energy consumption by improving energy efficiency of operating loads, and develop a comprehensive program for implementing energy efficiency improvement measures (1 point).

Transit

Demonstrate that the project has implemented the following energy conservation strategies in nontraction processes and loads (1 point):

Selection of energy efficient equipment
Adoption of operational practices to optimize energy consumption

Demonstrate that the project has implemented the following operational practices for energy conservation in traction loads (1 point):

Automatic controls for reducing energy consumption inside the rolling stock
Use of low energy consuming driving techniques

AND/OR

OPTION 2. Load management (Cities and Utilities, 1 point; Campuses, 2 points; Transit, 3 points)

Cities and Utilities

Have in place infrastructure and programs that provide access to dynamic pricing for metered users to motivate load shifting (1 point).

Rate structures must be clearly defined, communicated to metered users in a standard format, and easily accessible. The tariff scheme must offer real-time pricing or time-of-use pricing with at least two time blocks and two tiers for all customers.

Campuses

Have in place metering infrastructure that can support implementation of pricing schemes offered by the city or utility, and participate in a dynamic tariff scheme, in the following order of priority (1 point):

Real-time pricing scheme
Time-of-use pricing with two or more time blocks or as applicable to the project.

Implement load management programs to reduce peak demand on a permanent basis, using either of the following strategies (1 point):

Energy storage systems
Shifting of processes or loads from peak period to off-peak period

Transit

Have in place metering infrastructure that can support implementation of pricing schemes offered by the city or utility. Participate in one of the dynamic tariff schemes offered by the city or utility in following order of priority (1 point):

Real-time pricing scheme
Time of use pricing with two or more time blocks or as applicable to the project.

Using load survey, identify processes that can be shifted to off-peak periods. Implement a peak reduction program for project’s non-traction load (1point).

Implement a scheduling program for transit operations based on hourly, daily and / or seasonal variations in commuter demand (1point).