Project Requirements
WHAT IS A PROJECT?
A project is defined by a set of proposed or installed measures and estimated
demand and energy savings included in a single application. Comprehensive
projects that include a range of measure types are encouraged. All projects
must meet the following requirements:
Minimum Project Size:
Each project must include a total estimated demand reduction of at least 20 kW
during the summer peak period. Entergy defines the summer peak period as the
hours occurring between 1 PM and 7 PM, Monday through Friday, for the months
of May through September, excluding Independence Day and Labor Day.
Multi-Site:
One project may involve the installation of measures at more than one customer
site, if the customers and sites are similar. For example, installation of
measures at a chain of grocery stores may include more than one customer, but
may constitute a single project. Combining similar measures/sites into a
single project reduces administrative costs for performing due-diligence
review of applications and can streamline the project's M&V activities.
Retrofit and New Construction:
Projects may involve either retrofit and/or new construction projects.
Lighting Cap:
Each project must derive no more than 65% of its incentives from
lighting-related measures. For example, a service provider may have a project
to replace chillers and lighting in four similar office buildings, but the
fifth similar building has a new chiller installed already and thus requires
only lighting replacement. In this case, as long as the total incentive
derived from the lighting retrofits of the five buildings does not exceed 65
percent of the total incentive associated with the project, the service
provider is free to install only lighting measures in a particular building.
In cases where lighting measures make up 100 percent of project energy
savings, incentives will be limited to 65 percent of the total available
incentive payment.
Interactive Effects:
Incentives will be paid only for energy and demand savings directly related to
end-use equipment installed under the project. Savings due to interactive
effects between lighting measures and space-cooling equipment (in cases where
lighting measures have been installed in a cooled space) will be eligible for
payment based on a stipulated value only. Interactive effects between other
end-use equipment will not be eligible for program incentive payments.
EFFICIENCY STANDARDS
Entergy has designed the Com Standard Offer Program to encourage electric
energy-efficiency improvements that go above and beyond the efficiency gains
typically achieved in retrofit or replacement projects. Consequently, energy
and demand savings credit will be based only on reductions that exceed current
industry accepted minimum efficiency standards, where applicable. The
equipment efficiency standards listed below will be used to determine the
baseline efficiency.
NEW CONSTRUCTION
For new construction projects, the Com Standard Offer Program requires the
installation of equipment that is more efficient than is specified by code.
The applicable baseline standard for all new construction measures is
ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999. Energy and demand savings for new
construction measures are based on efficiency improvements beyond the minimum
efficiency required by code.
ELIGIBLE MEASURES
The program does not specify eligible measures in order to provide energy
service providers flexibility in packaging services. Project Sponsors may
propose the inclusion of any measure in their project that meets the following
requirements:
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Measure must produce savings through an increase in energy efficiency or a
substitution of another energy source for electricity supplied through the
transmission and distribution grid.
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Measure must produce a measurable and verifiable electric demand reduction
during the peak summer period and must reduce electricity consumption.
Fuel-switching measures must reduce peak electric demand but source energy
reduction is not mandated.
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Measure must have a minimum useful life of 10 years.
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Measure must exceed minimum equipment efficiency standards.
INELIGIBLE MEASURES
The following measures are excluded from consideration in the program:
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Measures that involve self-generation or cogeneration, except for renewable
technologies.
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Measures that rely on changes in customer behavior.
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Measures that require no capital investment.
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Measures that achieve savings through equipment maintenance, commissioning or
operational changes, without an equipment efficiency upgrade.
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Measures that result in negative environmental or health effects.
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Measures that receive an incentive through any other energy efficiency program
offered by Entergy.
OTHER NOTES
As a general rule, measures involving "plug loads" (equipment or appliances
that are plugged into standard electrical outlets) are not permitted. This
restriction may be waived by Entergy if the Project Sponsor provides
reasonable assurance that the energy and/or demand savings associated with
such measures are likely to persist over a 10-year period of time and that
quantifiable energy and/or demand reduction meeting the requirements of the
PUCT's Energy Efficiency Rule can indeed be achieved through the proposed
measure(s).
If the Project Sponsor pursues measures for which deemed savings values have
not been approved by the PUCT, then the Project Sponsor must follow the
International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP).
Entergy will be the final authority on whether any particular measure is
eligible for incentives.
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