Municipality of Digby

Opportunity Project # 3

Tidal Site Selection

Renewable Energy Platform/Program

1. Executive Summary

1.1 Energy Profile and Demand Side Management

1.2 Utility Requirements/Needs

2. Sustainable Development Policy & Energy Goals

2.1 Municipality/Regional Goals & Governance, existing Policies and Practices

2.2 Energy Supply Regulation

2.3 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Resources

3. Renewable Energy Outcomes

4. Renewable Energy Generation Technologies and Products

4.1 Technology and Innovation Roadmap

4.2 Tidal, Wind and Solar Renewable Platforms

4.3 EVSE Charging Infrastructure - Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. Home, Commercial and Quick Charge

4.4 Vehicle to Grid and Vehicle to Home bi-directional platform

4.5 Storage and Transfer options

4.6 Emerging technologies

5. Community Engagement, Economic Development and Renewable Funding, Incentives and Funding Parameters

6. Recommendations & Action Steps

ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR POSSIBLE INCLUSION

Communications, Education and Public Relations

A community education program can be launched in parallel to tie into delivery of stages of the overall platform and can include for example:

Education Materials and programs for each targeted market

Community Education Outreach for Residential and Commercial segments and Business Leaders

Private/Public Partnership Network Events

Earth Day, Public Day Participation

Objective 1: To improve operating costs (lower overhead), turn-around times for maintenance and repairs, including improved deployment times all designed to reduce development costs.

Objective 2: To seek appropriate funding that would incentivise private sector investment, invite operating expertise from , governance capacity.

Objective 3: To foster a competitive business climate and to focus attention and resources to develop local skills sets for supply chain management logistics which encourages economic growth.

Objective 4: To Promote, advocate and encourage the Digby Tidal Site to multi-users in an effort to share costs among industry sectors ie., oil and gas, shipping lines, containerized wharehousing, etc.

1. Creation of a shared-use sector resource that reduces technology development cost in the demonstration phase of the emerging Tidal Energy industry.

2. Enables cost-effective deployment that incentives incremental turbine investment.

3. Enables lower-risk deployment scenario that encourages incremental turbine investment.

4. Supports the province’s objective of development of 20MW of tidal energy by the year 2020.

5. Supports Supply Chain development estimated to be worth in excess of $568 Million* during the Demonstration phase alone (*Source: “Value Proposition for Tidal Energy Development in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, and Canada”, Gardner Pinfold Consultants Inc. & Acadia Tidal Energy institute, April 2015)

6. Leads to potential 5,788 FTE job creation generating in excess of $297 Million Labour Income*, during the demonstration phase alone. (*Source: “Value Proposition for Tidal Energy Development in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, and Canada”, Gardner Pinfold Consultants Inc. & Acadia Tidal Energy institute, April 2015)

7. The types of jobs created are long-term: marine turbines are scheduled to be deployed in increasing numbers each year, post-demonstration phase. Once deployed, they need to be retrieved and maintenance performed periodically.

8. The jobs created will require technology-specific skill sets, providing a boost to the province’s education and training sector.

9. This investment leads to positioning Canada, and Nova Scotia in particular, to be a leading global exporter of a rapidly-emerging technology.

10. The support area envisioned has broad multi-sector potential: shipping & logistics, fisheries & aquaculture, oil & gas, to name a few.

11. Supports an industry that avoids in excess of 4.7 million Tonnes* of emissions during the demonstration phase alone. (*Source: “Value Proposition for Tidal Energy Development in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, and Canada”, Gardner Pinfold Consultants Inc. & Acadia Tidal Energy institute, April 2015)

12. Supports the creation of a future manufacturing/assembly - overhaul/maintenance facility for turbine components in an area close to deployment (Digby), thereby reducing industry costs and increasing global competitiveness.

Acadia Tidal Toolkit

Digby Supply Chain

December 15 2015

Striving to be "The Greenest County in Nova Scotia"

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Efforcer d'être " le comté le plus vert en Nouvelle-Écosse"

Energy Efficiency

Municipal Role: Lead

Partners: Town and Clare

Property Assessment Clean Energy

PACE.

Opportunity Project #1

Partnership: on jointly owned land

Municipal Role: Lead

Financed: MFC

Endurance COMFIT Project: 50 kw E3120

Electric Vehicle as Storage

Site Installed Costs

Opportunity Project #2:

Support for upgrades to local grid

Municipal Role: Digby Development Agency

Partners: MoDD / FTI

EVSE Charging Infrastructure - Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. Home, Commercial and Quick Charge

Smith's Cove/ Digby WWTP Site 5 kw

Net Meter

Municipality of Digby Streetlight Conversion: 864 across the District

Costs: $.5 million

Revenue: <$100k gross /yr

Payback: 5-7 yrs.

Cost $50k

Payback: 6 yrs

Digby Gut Project with FTI

Cold Storage Facility / Eco Park Concept

Electric Grid Infrastructure

Partners: Nova Scotia Power,

• Builds, Operates, Maintains

Total Installed Costs: $6.9m

Total Phase I Costs: $2.1m

Revenue: ~ $ ??

Cost to the municipality: % of formula

Food and Fisheries

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Digby CHP Project??? COMFIT

Partners: Digby Development Agency

Total Costs