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SamplePowerPoint.pptxSunco Utilities Partnership Internal Business Proposal
Gloria Hernandez
The University of Arizona Global Campus
BUS 222
Professor Tyznik
April 2, 2030
Gloria Hernandez, Partnership Specialist with Sunco Utilities
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Renewable energy is very difficult for customers to use on the current U.S. power grid.
Through active partnerships, renewable power by choice is achievable.
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Renewable Power by Choice
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The current U.S. power grid is decentralized, and its electricity, whether it is petroleum-sourced, nuclear-sourced, or generated from wind and solar power, is distributed on an undifferentiated basis. Therefore, it has become very difficult or impossible for customers to choose renewable energy sources as the sole means for powering their properties. This proposal seeks to provide a way that Sunco can accomplish the goal of “renewable power by choice” through active partnerships with utility companies and regulators across the country.
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Opportunity
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Customers want renewable energy as an option.
Problems with getting renewable energy include:
No “smart grid” (Conteras, 2012)
Permits, regulations, and service changes (Ryor, 2014)
Convincing local utilities of the economic viability
In the absence of a national “smart” grid, which would increase “pricing transparency, as well as enable a host of consumer-producer interactive transactions” (Contreras, 2012, p. 645), Sunco, producers of renewable energy, has run into the problem of getting services to the customers who demand them. Similarly, our consumers who generate renewable energy on-site from solar panels and wind turbines have also run into the problem of permits, regulations, and service charges that vary from state to state and utility to utility (Ryor, 2014). Currently, the main challenge is convincing local utilities of the economic viability of renewable energy, and since the energy supplied is undifferentiated, the general customer base is unaware that other options exist.
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Solution
A partnership to grant exclusive, contractual “renewable energy options”
Energy efficiency renovations for their customers’ homes
Why? The utilities will benefit by the lessening of demand on their plants not only through employing renewable energy resources as an option for their customers but also by decreased consumption at the meter from smart technology (Friedman, 2008).
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Since the company lacks the necessary knowledge and authority to enable services to be accessed and expedited in a way that would make them economically feasible in the existing system, the company should seek to engage in a partnership with utilities and regulators around the country to grant their clients exclusive, contractual “renewable energy options.” These options will standardize and simplify contracting processes and fees for the “behind-the-grid” customers and require utilities to offer renewable energy alternatives to the “on-the-grid” customers. The on-the-grid renewable energy the utilities offer their customers will be supplied by Sunco.
In return for these waivers, the company should offer to finance energy efficiency renovations for their customers’ homes, which would include weatherizing and sealing, the installation of smart appliances and meters, and use the energy savings generated from these improvements to repay the loan and give the remaining 50% of the savings to the utility and customer to split. Therefore, the customers will not only get the renewable energy they want and the savings at the meter but will also get the updated information systems they will need to optimize their energy use in the future. The utilities will benefit by the lessening of demand on their plants not only through employing renewable energy resources as an option for their customers but also by decreased consumption at the meter from smart technology (Friedman, 2008). This initiative will increase the company’s market share and change the dynamic of the energy industry as a whole since regulators will no longer be giving incentives to utilities for the unlimited power they deliver, but instead for the power they save.
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Timeline
The general timetable is as follows:
Immediately: Find utilities nationwide that are agreeable to a partnership plan.
Within 1 Month: Advertise services nationwide on a multimedia platform.
Within 1 Year: Provide nationwide clean energy service via the grid and home-based solar and wind power installations.
Within 5 Years: Operate clean energy generation systems from a fully integrated smart grid that allows for customers to buy and sell energy on an energy internet so as to access the cheapest energy sources at any one time and maintain full interface with energy.
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The plan is to gradually phase into the national electricity grid by securing extended contracts with utilities that allow us to supply renewable energy in their areas of operation. The general timetable is as follows: 1. Immediately: Find utilities nationwide that are agreeable to our partnership plan. 2. Within 1 Month: Advertise our services nationwide on a multimedia platform. 3. Within 1 Year: Provide nationwide clean energy service via the grid and home-based solar and wind power installations. 4. Within 5 Years: Operate clean energy generation systems from a fully integrated smart grid that allows for customers to buy and sell energy on an energy internet so as to access the cheapest energy sources at any one time and maintain full interface with energy companies and utilities.
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Costs
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| Month | January | February | March | April | May | June | July |
| Prior Year | $135 | $130 | $120 | $110 | $115 | $125 | $140 |
| Present | $80 | $75 | $170 | $60 | $70 | $80 | $90 |
| Total Savings | $55 | $55 | $50 | $50 | $45 | $45 | $50 |
Estimated average energy savings for residential customers each month:
The table illustrates the estimated total savings per month for a customer who receives energy efficiency renovations in the form of: • One smart refrigerator • One smart electricity meter • Weather sealing of windows and doors Estimated average energy savings for residential customers each month: read chart.
This data means a $1000 energy improvement loan for the above products and services could be repaid in two years at 20% interest figuring the average power savings per month at $50. An investment of $1000 to $2,000 would be adequate to “energy renovate” most dwellings to the degree that power savings would be substantial.
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Conclusion
A new system must be implemented.
Renewable energy does not have to be expensive or unrealistic.
Sunco can be a leader in the clean energy marketplace.
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To solve the problems of waste and environmental pollution that our current electrical grid creates and to better service customers and the power consuming public at large, a new system must be implemented. The first step in this process will be the creation of a national, centralized electrical grid that offers viable alternatives to traditional oil, coal and nuclear power generation. For this new grid to function, it will require two-way communication between customer and supplier so energy efficiency can be optimized and environmental impact minimized.
The first phase of this goal is for the company to overcome the biases and opinions in the industry that renewable energy is “expensive” and “unrealistic.” The demand for clean energy exists today and will increase as customers come into possession of the smart technology that will make it possible. With this business plan for renewable energy options, it can expedite the formation of the smart grid and position the company as leaders in the clean energy marketplace.
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References
Contreras, J. L. (2012). Standards, patents, and the National Smart Grid. Pace Law Review, 32(3), 641- 675.
Friedman, T. (2008). Hot, flat and crowded. Straus and Giroux.
Ryor, J. (2014, July). Tackling U.S. corporations’ 3 challenges to buying renewable energy. World Resources Institute. http://www.wri.org/blog/2014/07/tackling-us- corporations%E2%80%99- 3-challenges-buying-renewable-energy
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