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Energy Center of Wisconsin Technical Director Doug Ahl's presentation from the Renewables & Sustainability breakout session at the 2010 Wisconsin Bioenergy Summit.

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Tools for Community Energy Planning

Douglas Ahl Technical Director

Energy Center of Wisconsin dahl@ecw.org

Outline

■  The purpose of this presentation is to increase awareness of low cost tools that are available or being developed that can assist planners in Wisconsin with energy analysis.

■  Summary table of 6 tools

■  Demonstration of bioenergy server

■  Review of other tools

Energy Center of Wisconsin

university colleges

economic development groups

Tool Target information

Platform Scale range Status Link

Bioenergy Geospatial Data Server

Bioenergy feedstocks, producers

Web map application

Point, county, WI Release Dec. 2010 http://biomap.wisc.edu/biofuels/

Biofuels Atlas Bioenergy feedstocks, producers

Web map application

Point, county, US Online http://maps.nrel.gov/biomass

Portfolio Manager Building energy management

Online db Buildings Online http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_performance.bus_portfoliomanager

AWE Water Conservation Tracking Tool

Water savings and costs

MS excel Buildings, communities

Available to members

http://www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org/Tracking-Tool.aspx

Back of Envelope Calculator

Building energy use MS Excel Buildings online http://www.ecw.org/project.php?workid=1&resultid=286

25x25 Community Energy Planning

Projected community energy use

MS Excel Buildings, communities

Released Jan. 2011, Energy Center of Wisconsin

Final Thoughts

■  These tools represent reasonable approaches or best data available, but are likely flawed in some way

■  These tools should be used to assist the planning process

■  Be aware of time and space scales

Thank you.

Douglas Ahl

Technical Director

Energy Center of Wisconsin

dahl@ecw.org

608-238-8276

Final Thoughts

■  These tools represent reasonable approaches or best data available, but are likely flawed in some way

■  These tools should be used to assist the planning process

■  Be aware of time and space scales

Thank you.

Douglas Ahl

Technical Director

Energy Center of Wisconsin

dahl@ecw.org

608-238-8276

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