Taylor D.'s Final Intern Presentation Fall 2013

1. Final Intern
Presentation
MO Leadership Ranking
Project
Taylor Dziedzic

2. MO Leadership Ranking
Project
• The purpose of this project is to effectively detail
the larger picture of where Missouri ranks in
Renewable Energy, and Energy Efficiency
policies, regulations, and program implementation
in comparison to the rest of the U.S.
• The objective is to showcase the problem areas of
Missouri’s RE and EE state policies, and outline
the effective policy measures that could be
applied to Missouri. The overall goal is to advance
Missouri’s position as a leading state in RE and
EE.

3. Energy Efficiency:
Breakdown of MO’s ACEEE
Ranking

4. Energy Efficiency Graph
(Based on ACEEE rankings)

5. ACEEE View of Missouri EE
Policy - Improvements
• ACEEE believes that stricter building energy codes
are essential for a higher EE grade. In order to
improve ACEEE rankings, Missouri can apply the
following:
• Mandating newer, stricter energy codes on newly
constructed commercial and residential buildings.
• Increasing Utility company budgets to allow for
purchasing equipment that code officials can use to
measure compliance.
• Create policies that mandate benchmarks for state
building energy use.

6. Similar States That Made
Improvements in 2013 - MS
• Mississippi: +4 Change in Rank (47 from 43)
• Why?
• Passed ASHRAE 90.1-2010 which sets a mandatory
energy code for commercial and state-owned buildings
• MS is working with local jurisdictions and code officials
to implement the new standard and ensure compliance
• Building Energy Code Collaborative: a stakeholder
group that meets quarterly to implement code training
and enforcement activities
• Began implementing lead-by-example programs for
state agencies, including developing energy savings
targets for public buildings and efficiency goals for state
fleets

7. Similar States That Made
Improvements in 2013 - KS
• Kansas: +6 Change in Rank (39 from 45)
• Why?
• Adoption of more stringent building codes by the
majority of the state’s jurisdictions
• ACEEE’s 2013 state report suggests that Kansas can
continue this climb by expanding its energy efficiency
programs to other policy areas, most notably the utility
sector

8. ACEEE Suggestions for
Improving Energy Efficiency
• Put in place, and adequately fund, an energy efficiency
resource standard or similar energy savings target
• Adopt updated, more stringent building energy codes;
improve code compliance; and enable the involvement of
efficiency program administrators in code support.
• Adopt stringent tailpipe emissions standards for cars and
trucks, and set quantitative targets for reducing vehicle miles
traveled
• Treat combined heat and power as an energy efficiency
resource equivalent to other forms of energy efficiency

9. Renewable Energy in
Missouri
• Information gathered from Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC)
• As we know, Missouri has already established a
Renewable Energy Standard that will require 15
percent of the state's energy to come from
renewable sources by 2021
• Missouri’s large tracts of windy land and fertile
soil, located relatively close to dense, energy-
consuming urban centers, put Missouri in a prime
position to become a national leader in renewable
energy

10. Wind Energy in Missouri
• According to the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL), Missouri has enough
wind to capture as much as
275,000 megawatts of power –
nine times the state's current
electricity capacity, or enough
to easily meet the state's total
annual demand for electricity
• The average 269-acre Missouri
farm could host three to four
wind turbines and bring in
$18,000 to $24,000 annually
from land lease payments

11. Wind Energy In Missouri
Continued
• In 2009 and 2010, Missouri tripled its wind power
capacity.
• Missouri wind farms currently produce 459 megawatts
of energy -- enough to power 110,000 homes. An
additional 2,000 megawatts of wind power are in
development
• According to the Department of Energy, building
twenty-five 100-megawatt wind facilities would create
thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of
permanent jobs; manufacturing wind turbine parts
could create thousands more

12. Wind Energy Facilities in
Missouri

13. Solar Energy in Missouri
• The Missouri Renewable
Energy Standard requires
that 2 percent of the
state's renewable
electricity come from solar
power. That's about
190,000 megawatt-hours
of annual solar electricity
production by 2021, or the
equivalent of powering
nearly 2,000 homes

14. Solar Energy Facilities in
Missouri

15. Biomass Energy and
Cellulosic Ethanol
• Missouri farms already produce
enough crop waste from corn,
winter wheat, soybeans,
sorghum, cotton and timber to
manufacture about 500 million
gallons of cellulosic ethanol
each year
• That's about 15 percent of all
the automotive gasoline used
in the state
• A study by the Institute for
Local Self-Reliance found that
Missouri has the potential to
produce an amount of ethanol
equivalent to 78 percent of its
current demand for gasoline

16. Advanced Biofuel Facilities in
Missouri

17. Potential Biogas Energy in
Missouri
• Missouri has only one biodigester
in operation today, but as one of
the top five hog-producing states
in the country, it generates large
amounts of livestock waste that
can be converted into biogas
energy
• The EPA's AgSTAR program
reports that 154 Missouri hog
farms are potentially profitable
sites for biodigester
• Together, these operations are
capable of producing 3.5 billion
cubic feet of methane and
generating 301,000 megawatt-
hours of electricity each year
from it

18. Biodigester Facilities in
Missouri

19. Fin.