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Align by Design

Advancing the Modern Grid Capabilities of Tomorrow, Starting Today,
​Using the Innovative Rate Design called 
Customer Lowered Electricity Price
Please Bring Your Laptop
Come to our  * Free   * RESNET PreConference   * Hands-on     * Working Session 
​
Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 1 to 5 pm, Sheraton Hotel, 500 Canal St., Oak Alley Rm, 4th Fl

http://conference.resnet.us/sessions-preconference
Led by Myron Katz, Mike Hopkins, Pres Kabacoff, Gary Klein, Rick Dupont, Dave Stets, Thomas Milliner, and Brendan Moore
​
Your test drive with Customer Lowered Electricity Price will demonstrate when to use, store, conserve, buy, and sell electricity to enable CLEP’s savings & income. Customers save money just by changing when they use the equipment they already have and can even earn net income if they use CLEP cashflows to fully-finance newer equipment. CLEP can double cashflows from energy efficiency and renewable energy — while lowering everyone’s electricity prices.   CLEP is an Opt-In rate that complements your current rate.​
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Through a series of hands-on, interactive, educational and discussion modules,
you will learn how to:
  • Motivate customers to invest in zero or low-emissions generation, energy efficiency, and energy storage;
  • Provide a lower cost, more resilient, reliable, and greener grid -- at the micro and macro level;
  • Aggregate and orchestrate customer use of distributed energy resources to attain negative energy bills;
  • Put a microgrid in your home or office; and
  • Benefit all consumers, even non-CLEP customers.


​We study the nitty gritty of improved appliance uses and choices, such as:

  • Programming a dishwasher (DW) & water heater (WH) for smart time-of-use;
  • Transitioning to heat-pump water heaters and ice-making air conditioners;
  • Installing and programming an electric battery;
  • Enhancing the value of your plug-in electric vehicle; and
  • Making solar energy cheaper, more lucrative and available for all via​ CLEP for Community Solar ​​(CS)

​Because CLEP provides short payback periods for thermal and electric storage investments and makes many of them cost-effective for the first time, CLEP greatly improves electricity reliability in the face of Entergy New Orleans’ thousands of power outages a year.

Because CLEP flattens peak demand at negative costs to all ratepayers, CLEP completely shields users from extraordinarily high-priced electricity and plans to build, NOPS, a $200 million peaking plant.
​

Come find out about this revolution in electricity pricing!
​

Can’t come?  Or need more information?  Watch a 12-minute, high-level video explanation of CLEP published in Feb 2017, or read a PPT of 10-Minute "TED" talk published in Apr 2017 or read a comprehensive explanation filed as testimony submitted into the current Entergy New Orleans Rate Case in Feb 2019 at:

www.BuildingScienceInnovators.com/customer-lowered-electricity-price.html
​
A humorous, very provocative and clever, 40-second introduction to CLEP is found in "Stealing from the Rich to Give to the Poor" from the recent movie: Stan and Ollie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G72SK1vi4rM&feature=youtu.be&t=24​
Still under development is a primer or high level explanation of CLEP via "E" learning modules provided at 
​ https://elearning.EasyGenerator.com/9bc13df2-eef2-41ba-9ee2-882569ea0efd/
Request an in-person or remote screen-sharing with Myron.Katz@EnergyRater.com 
​in order to use the CLEP "dashboard" application to get a Hands-On Experience as a 
Virtual CLEP customer.  The current version demonstrates that CLEP pays for Community Solar at 13% higher than retail!
​
Watch the video of the full, 4-hour, Align by Design session recorded on 24 Feb 2019.
​
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCEzp3ZSfg8&list=PLAfYUNRlehhwOnIVpYIFf5WlXMposf3u3&index=1​

​
Corrected Speaker's Notes for each talk are available here.

2018 Entergy New Orleans Rate Case
Direct Testimony  Feb 1, 2019
​Surrebuttal Testimony Apr 25, 2019
Response to ENO's Interrogatory, Jun 1, 2019 
CLEP_Dashboard, Jun 1, 2019
​Opening Statement to Evidentiary Hearing, Jun 17, 2019
Initial Post Evidentiary Hearing Brief Jul 26, 2019

Reply Brief Aug 9, 2019

OpEd for CLEP readied for publication Aug 21, 2019


A Novel Electricity Rate Effectively Addresses Reliability and Sustainability -- While Using the Profit Motive to Get Us All on Board to Save the Biosphere!
 a talk to be given at the Growing Sustainable Communities Conference in Dubuque, Iowa, Oct 25, 2019. ​

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  • Home
  • Innovations
    • PV with ESD - Grant Proposal to DOE 2014
    • Customer Lowered Electricity Price
    • Integrated Resource Planning Cannot Be Calculated
    • A Vented Roof with an Unvented Attic
    • Membranes Improve Insulation Efficiency
    • Building Retrofits
    • Closed Crawlspaces in Historic Homes
    • Moisture & Mold
    • Moisture Problems can interfere with Energy Efficiency
    • Buildings Without Diapers
    • Primary Energy Conservation
    • Standard of Sustainability for Homes
  • Utility Regulation
    • System Resilience and Storm Hardening UD-21-03 >
      • ProRate Energy's Direct Testimony
      • Local Letter Writing
    • Draft TOU Docket Enabling Resolution - 2020
    • CLEP is Proposed as Opt-in for all ENO's Customers - 2019
    • Bright Minds Challenge
    • BSI-Opines on Net Energy Metering - 2016
    • Gaslighting of Gaslighting - 2018
    • LA House of Representatives Resolution on CLEP - 2017
    • CLEP Battery Pilot - 2016
    • CLEP Community Solar Pilot - 2016
    • Pure CLEP Pilot - 2016
  • Customer Lowered Electricity Price
    • Fighting Climate Change Mitzvah Project
    • CLEP's Definition Simplified
    • ProRate
    • CLEP Lowers Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Financially Benefiting All Ratepayers
    • RFI-DOE-FOA-0002291-Connected-Communities
    • GSSC Talk
    • Align by Design
    • Community Solar
    • Utility Regulation
    • Community-Scale Energy >
      • Tiny Energy Bills
      • Public Policy
      • Solar or Batteries?
    • Electric Utilities
    • Commercial Customers
    • Appliance Manufacturers
    • Architects
  • About BSI
    • Clients' Projects
    • Services >
      • Norman Witriol
    • History
    • Paul Washington
    • Our Firm
    • Our Staff >
      • Myron Katz
    • Our Work
    • Publications >
      • Preservation Resource Center - Talk on 25Feb21
      • Interventions
      • Grants
      • Competitions
      • Journal Articles
      • Presentations
      • Awards
  • Contact