Roadmap For Clean Energy Delivery System

Seattle Waterfront Clean Energy Strategic Plan

SWCESP

Item No. 6k_supp

Meeting Date: June 11, 2019

Vision

By 2050, modernize the harbor electricity grid to provide clean

energy to Seattle’s working waterfront to increase regional

competitiveness, create jobs, improve community health, and

confront climate change.

Goals

• Substitute clean energy for fossil

fuels at facilities

• Define smartest investments for

port-wide energy system

– Low emission

– Cost Effective

– Reliable

– Resilient

Planning Objectives

• Roadmap of infrastructure investments

• Regional technology policy

• 30 year time frame

• Shared funding sources to implement plan

• Collaborative with business, tenants, community, labor, local

and state agencies

Core Team

• Port of Seattle

• NWSA

• City of Seattle

– Seattle City Light

– Office of Waterfront

– Office of Sustainability

Proposed External Partners

• Washington State Ferries

• Container, Cruise Tenants

• Maritime Blue

• Maritime Industry

• Harbor intensive energy users

• Labor

Internal and External Teams

Scope of Work Ideas

• Understand and analyze demand

needs

• Explore smart and resilient grid

systems

• Centralize energy distribution

substation

• Upgrade power management systems

• Create innovative supply and storage

solutions

• Consider Renewable on-site and off-

site solutions

Visualization purpose only – graphic does not reflect actual plans. Courtesy of Georgia

Tech Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory:

http://www.cepl.gatech.edu/drupal/node/43

Schedule

Project Step

Estimated completion

Internal Plan Development and Consultant Scope

Definition

7/1/2019

Project planning development with external groups

8/15/2019

Data Gathering

11/15/2019

Strategy Development

3/15/2020

Develop Final Report: Blueprint for Modernized Grid

8/15/2020

Adopt Technology Policy

9/1/2020

Funds

• Total Estimated project cost = $250,000

– $50,000 from Maritime Environmental Air planning

– $200,000 from Energy and Sustainability Committee funds

– NWSA contribution pending

• Consultant support with expertise in energy planning,

engineering and project facilitation.