Energy Master Planning toward Net Zero Energy Resilient Public Communities Guide (Hardcover)

Part 1. Executive Summary overview for decision makers (< 10 p.)

Part 2.  Community Energy Planning ?

1.       Introduction and lessons learned from best practices

2.       Energy Planning as a Part of the Community Master Plan

3.       Methodology of Energy planning process (Subtask D)

a.       Establishing planning boundaries and scope of energy planning

b.      Stakeholder goals for energy, resilience, and financial targets

c.       Blue sky analysis

                                                               i.      Baseline and gap analysis: required data, methods of data collection and tools

                                                             ii.      Base Case ? connecting with master plan, gap analysis, and financial base

                                                            iii.      Developing alternative scenarios

d.      Black-sky analysis

                                                               i.      Mission Criticality Assessment

                                                             ii.      Threat assessment

                                                            iii.      Mission critical loads and energy resiliency metrix

                                                           iv.      Resiliency analysis and gap evaluation

1.       Baseline

2.       Base Case

3.       Developing alternatives

                                                             v.      and derivation of community energy, resilience, and financial action plan

e.      Comparing Alternatives

f.        Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

g.       Implementation strategy for energy and resilience projects with financial planning

                5. Establishing Energy Goals, Objectives and Constraints for Energy Planning Process

a.    How to find realistic energy goals

b.    Stakeholders: visions, targets, constraints

c.     Economic frame conditions (site development plans, energy price structures etc.)
d.   Sustainability criteria

e.   Requirements from mission critical operations
d.    National legal framework (spatial planning etc.) to be considered in the energy design of communities

6.  Data required for energy master planning

a.       Sources of information, tools

b.      Local Potentials (energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewables)

7.  Integrating Resilience into the Energy Master Planning Framework

a.       Introduction

b.      Measuring and Improving Resilience

c.       Integration of Reliability-Focused Planning

d.      Identify Critical Functions

e.      Selection and Application of Threats

f.        Calculating Baseline Resilience

g.       Design and Analyze Base Case Resilience

h.      Plan and Analyze Alternative Conceptual Designs

i.         Alternative Designs

j.        Aggregate Blue-Sky and Resilience Metrics for Each Design

8.       Technologies and systems architectures for Baseline, Base Case and Alternatives

a.       Electrical Systems

b.      Thermal Systems

9.        Energy performance calculation method of complex energy systems

a.       Introduction

b.      Overview of Other Tools

c.       Need for a Tool and Unique Contributions

d.      Conceptual Overview

e.      Conceptual Core

f.        Discrete Event System Specification

g.       Example Analyses and Comparisons

h.      Quality assurance of the modeling process and results:
-strategies to provide realistic modeling results
- KPIs for quality check during implementation process (Subtask F)

10.   Multi criteria analysis of alternatives and scenario selection (Subtask E results):
Integrating economic, energy and resiliency targets

11.   Scenario selection and long-term energy strategy (the ‘Local Energy Action Plan’ - LEAP)

a.       Advanced Life Cycle cost analysis for selected projects as subset of the LEAP

b.      Quality assurance concept

c.       Implementation plan
- responsibilities
- trajectory of actions
- investment and turnover structures

Appendixes

A         National and international energy targets and goals (Subtask A results)

B          Requirements to energy systems from representative mission critical operations
(Subtask A results)

C          Case Studies Summary (Subtask B results)

D         Database of thermal and electrical technologies for distributed and central energy systems (conversion, distribution, storage) (Subtask C results)

E          Best practices of energy systems architecture (generic schematics of x (ca. 25) representative scenarios) (Subtask C results)

F          Up-to Date energy planning tools for use in practical projects for different planning phases (pre-planning phase, concept phase, design phase) a Subtask C and E results
- purpose
- results
- data input required

G         Energy resilience and methods of its evaluation (Subtask C results)

            - Energy systems under different threats (Subtask A results)

            - International maps with predominant natural threats (Subtask A results)

H         Information required for Energy and Resilience Planning (Subtask D)

J           Business and financial models for implementation of energy systems, risk analysis
(Subtask F results)