Our mission is to educate, inspire and mobilize our community to create a clean energy future for Bainbridge Island through energy efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy generation.
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RePower Bainbridge
In July 2010, the City of Bainbridge Island was selected as one of twenty communities in the United States to receive a U.S. Department of Energy Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) award. Through this award, the City and key community partners, including Positive Energy, have come together to implement RePower Bainbridge -- an exciting community-wide energy efficiency program.
Through RePower Bainbridge, together we will:
- Complete energy assessments in 4,000 homes and 100 businesses
- Achieve 15% or more in energy savings in 2000 homes and 25 businesses
- Reduce approximately 7,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions
Island Energy Dashboard
Have you seen our Island-wide energy dashboard? Our innovative real-time energy-monitoring system was designed and installed in close collaboration with Puget Sound Energy. The challenge was to design an energy dashboard that would show the Island's total energy consumption as well as the amount of energy used during peak time by each substation. The dashboard provides real-time data for display on the web and on kiosk displays located in public spaces, businesses and transit centers.
Look for it in the following local businesses and organizations:
- Bainbridge Bakers
- Bay Hay & Feed
- Chamber of Commerce
- Eagle Harbor Books
- Harbour Public House
- Pegasus Coffee House
- Treehouse Cafe
If your business is interested in hosting the Island Energy Dashboard, contact Eric Rehm.
Bainbridge Island Smart Power Program
In 2009, Puget Sound Energy and Positive Energy launched the first Demand Response Pilot Program in PSE’s territory. The two-year demand response pilot is designed to test the flexibility of the electrical system on the island with equipment installed at up to 550 homes that can automatically reduce residential customer electrical space and water heating use at peak usage times.
PSE’s demand response pilot program features specialized control devices that can control electric heating and water heaters, which use the largest amount of electricity. These controls use two-way communication via the Web to automatically reduce participants’ energy demand for a short period of time during dates and times when peak use is high – “event” days.
Event days typically occur when electric space and water heat use is highest between November and February in the early morning between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., when temperatures drop below 20-30 degrees. On these event days, the devices in the participating homes automatically reduce individual household electric space and water heating demand with minimal effect to residents’ comfort or convenience.
During winter, the diversified load reduction is expected to average approximately 1.6 kilowatts (kW) per participating home. Spread over 550 participants, this load reduction would be a little less than 880 kW, or a little less than 1 megawatt.
To learn more, go to PSE and Task Force launch Pilot Program
The Smart Power Pilot Program is closed but you can still participate in Taking a Load Off.
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