Fall 2015 Weatherization Assistant Fuel Cost Update

Updated vendor fuel costs for the major investor owned utilities are as follows:

$/kWh
Duke: $0.122
I&M: $0.118
IPL: $0.095
Vectren: $0.216
NIPSCO: $0.138

$/Mcf
Vectren: $8.832
NIPSCO: $6.408
Citizens Energy Group: $8.069

These fuel costs are based on the newest average pre-NAC for local burn homes from the 2012-2013 Billing Analysis report.  The average pre-NAC for natural gas was 1,016 therms.  The average pre-NAC for electricity was 10,382 kWh.  The monthly percentage of fuel consumption assumptions remain the same as they have been.

2013-2014 Preliminary Final BEACon results

Because preliminary final makes so much sense.

BEACon has finished grinding out the data for homes weatherized between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014, as well as the corresponding energy assistance program data.  That said, the outputs need to be reviewed for possible excessive study attrition (consumption data getting kicked out due to format issues, etc.) to include as much reliable data as possible in this year's study.  That said:

State averages (net):

Site built natural gas - 204 (+/-8) therms; 22% (+/-.8%)

Site built electric - 1,497 (+/-498) kWh; 5% (+/-2%)


Mobile home natural gas - 80 (+/-17) therms; 10% (+/-2%)

Mobile home electric - Unknown (really big relative standard errors on this one)
519 (+/-621) KWh; .3% (+/-3%)

The data will be reviewed over the next few days/weeks depending on what (if anything) is found and needs to be run again.  If the review goes well, the agency summaries will be trickling out soon there after.

2015 Vectren Share the Warmth wrap up

This year's Share the Warmth program funded by Vectren and it's customer's donations wrapped up earlier this month.  119 households participated, up from 94 participants last year.  $257,874 was spent to help weatherize homes participating in Indiana's low income weatherization program.  A few program highlights:

• 74 received a new furnace to replace an existing, but unsafe furnace.
• 16 cook stoves were replaced or repaired to eliminate unsafe levels of carbon monoxide being made.
• 20 unsafe gas fired water heaters were replaced.
• 170,522 cfm@50 Pascals worth of air sealing reductions was achieved.  Which is roughly the equivalent of there being three doors left open year round, letting hot air leave in the winter.  Those three doors are now shut and keeping warm air inside the homes.
• Over 1.5 acres of attic insulation was installed (66,945 square feet).
• Enough walls were insulated to cover nearly 15 IMAX screens (55,589 square feet).
• 1,413 feet of pipe insulation was installed, taller than five Indiana State Soldiers and Sailors Monuments stacked one on top of another.
• 20,174 square feet of mobile home belly insulation was installed, enough to insulate more than four basketball court floors.

The map below shows where the funds were spent throughout the state (anonymized by county).  Nearly 40% of the funds were put to use in Madison, Knox, Vigo, and Vanderburgh counties.  

  

The next map breaks down a few bits of information for each county where Share the Warmth funds were utilized.

Please click on a spot to see how much was spent & claimed for STW

And for the implementation bits:

I would like to thank Ohio Valley Opportunities, Community Action of Western Indiana, PACE, Community & Family Services, Central Indiana CAP, Western Indiana Community Action, South Central CAP, Hoosier Uplands, TRI-CAP, and Lincoln Hills for accepting and putting to use additional Share the Warmth funds.  I appreciate your flexibility!

Vectren Share the Warmth 2015 - June update

Here is an update for Share the Warmth's spending levels as of the beginning of June.  Just under half of the participating Weatherization providers have successfully claimed at least half of their allocations.

With two months to go, over $144,000 has been claimed with a little over $113,000 remaining before the final benchmark arrives at the end of June.  Big thanks to Area IV for getting their total allocation claimed in well ahead of schedule.  For everyone else, keep those claims coming in!  I will be reaching out to many of you to provide a list of clients that have administrative costs yet to be reimbursed.  

Thanks again for your hard work!

2015 Vectren Share the Warmth mapping

Trying out a new visualization method. Rather than relying on charts to show progress for the Share the Warmth program this year, here are some maps:

STW funds claimed by county:

The claims and funding levels are aggregated and tracked by county, so no personal information of the clients is identified.  As of today, 52 homes have been successfully claimed for a total of $113,954.37.  Just a little under the half way, from a funding standpoint.  But less than two months to go before the final benchmark (July 1st).

Over 70 percent of the participating providers have claimed less than half of their allocated funds at this point.  I hope to see more claims coming in the next month.  Thanks for all your hard work thus far...

Pre-Weatherization consumption data for EAP clients - spring 2015

Pre-weatherization consumption data was uploaded to the IWAP database this morning.  The upload consists of EAP clients that will be in the 2013-2014 Billing Analysis study's comparison group, but just NIPSCO and Vectren customers at this time.  

There is over 19,000 NACs uploaded for electric usage and over 38,000 NACs for natural gas usage.  Those NACs should be showing up in your waiting lists and when you search for new clients to put on your wait list.


p.s. interim savings results for Weatherization providers with NIPSCO and Vectren customers should be making their way to the providers the next week or so.  As well as requests for additional information that wasn't found in the IWAP database, but is needed for the billing analysis study.  Which would also include lists of clients that will need fuel release forms...

Spring 2015 Wx Assistant fuel cost update

Updated vendor fuel costs for the major investor owned utilities are as follows:

$/kWh
Duke: $0.126
I&M: $0.12
IPL: $0.096
Vectren: $0.216
NIPSCO: $0.138

$/Mcf
Vectren: $8.832
NIPSCO: $8.028
Citizens Energy Group: $9.137

These fuel costs are based on the newest average pre-NAC for local burn homes from the 2012-2013 Billing Analysis report.  The average pre-NAC for natural gas was 1,016 therms.  The average pre-NAC for electricity was 10,382 kWh.  The monthly percentage of fuel consumption assumptions remain the same as they have been.