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Construction costs of recommended projects are built up from contractor quotes, Means
manuals, experience from past project cycles, and a variety of other sources. Project costs are
the sum of the construction cost and contingency (10%), engineering and design (15%),
construction management (5%) and project management (6%). While individual projects’ final
costs and savings may vary from the results presented in this report, it is anticipated that the
aggregate level of accuracy by campus or by utility service territory will be reasonable.
A preliminary list of energy efficiency projects, delivered to UCOP on March 28, was the initial
step in delivery of the Strategic Energy Plan results. This list of projects was reviewed,
prioritized and scheduled by the individual campuses and returned to UCOP. The compiled
results were then used to determine the level of savings commitment for the Investor Owned
Utilities to use in support of their filings to the CPUC for the UC/CSU/IOU Partnership Program.
The results will also assist UCOP in planning for a bond to finance the campus contributions for
the construction of these projects.
As of the writing of this report, the details of the Partnership Program have not been defined for
the 2009-2011 cycle, and discussions are ongoing with the Municipal utilities to solicit similar
participation and incentive levels for the campuses. While these crucial details are not
confirmed, this Strategic Energy Plan was in large part commissioned to determine overall
potential for projects, and is a critical step in securing the incentive funding levels from both the
IOU and Municipal utilities, and for UCOP funding. Consequently, this report assumes that
many of the aspects of the current plan will be carried forward, including the incentive rates of
$0.24/kWh and $1.00/therm of annual savings. These rates are used in the analyses of all
projects in this report, including those at campuses served by Municipally Owned Utilities.
Following delivery of the Preliminary List, the projects in this Strategic Energy Plan report were
aggregated and assembled. The projects from the Preliminary List are included, with some
refinements following additional quality control checks. Projects have been compared to
historical energy use and project costs have been refined. Other projects have been added
following the development of the Preliminary List, including renewable electric generation
projects (such as photovoltaics, which qualify for different utility programs), and projects which
save electricity supplied by Municipally Owned Utilities whose energy efficiency programs are
not regulated by the CPUC (including SMUD, LADWP and the City of Riverside). Details for
these projects replace the placeholder savings previously projected.
The projects included in this SEP are the result of a survey of the campus, discussions with
campus personnel, and preliminary engineering of projects. This effort is not an investment
grade audit. This means that the projects will require additional detailed cost estimating and
refinement of savings before the campuses or the utilities can commit to specific construction
budgets and energy saving calculations.
This effort was designed to identify significant physical modifications required to make buildings
energy efficient. It did not concentrate on operational details that might be found in an
investment grade audit, such as a broken economizer, or an improper control sequence.
However, the Strategic Energy Plan does recommend the monitoring-based commissioning
(MBCx) of each of these buildings over the next six years (excluding buildings that have already
been commissioned through the Partnership). This process will ensure that the operational
problems of each building are identified and corrected, so that all measures that might be
identified in an investment grade audit will ultimately be included.
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