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Dear Seward City Council:
I read with interest the recent article regarding drop in electrical usage and potential
rate changes. Having spent 30 years as a conservation specialist and served 6 years
on the Nome Joint Utility Board, I've worn both demand -side and supply-side hats
regarding electrical use and production.
The recent changes to the rate structure a few years ago is an interesting experiment.
As a local homeowner and year -around resident I find the lower rates in winter a
blessing. The loss of sales is not surprising given the higher overall rates and more
efficient lighting and appliances on the market. We as a city run electric utility need to
adapt, no question about it.
One opportunity for a significant increase in electrical sales (lower rates) are heat
pumps. I believe Seward is ripe for integrating this technology into our space heating
mix, both residential and commercial. Without getting into details ofhow heat pumps
work, they offer a very competitive alternative to oil heat. Whether the source of heat
for a heat pump is the ground, sea water, or air the opportunity is substantial, both
large and small scale. Your staff John Foutz and Stefan Nillison are familiar with the
potential of heat pumps in Seward. How a significant increase in electrical demand fits
within the current electric utility structure probably needs some review.
The current winter/summer rate structure offers a nice incentive for those of us willing
to venture out and test new technology with our own money - such as heat pumps.
Personally, I believe the heat pump technology is well proven, cost effective and
readily available. What is missing is the local expertise of design, installation and
servicing side ofheat pumps. Though heat pumps are little more than a refrigerator
operating in reverse and are no different than commercial refrigeration systems
currently operating all over Seward, the application for space heating in residential and
light commercial is still very new. The city could help resolve this roadblock by
incorporating large or small scale adoption of the technology within the city facilities
and maintain electrical rate structures to promote replacing oil with heat pump
technology. I'm sure AVTEC has an important role in this future. I see it as a win -win
for Seward.
The opportunity to replace oil with more locally produced electricity and with more
renewable sources added to the mix in the future, heat pumps hold an important role
in Seward and the environment. I strongly encourage you to consider such as you
evaluate electric rates and other incentives.
Sincerely,
ehiKaluza
Yearly Heat Pump Savings
Calculator only for estimation of heating load capacity and approximate simple payback period.
Ivens
Electricity Cost
: $0.160 per kWh
Fuel Type :
Oil
Local Electricity Cost
$0.143 per kWh
Indoor Temperature
70 OF
IFuel Cost
$2.62 1per gal
Local Fuel Ave
$2.43 per gal
Location
ISeward
Efficiency
80%
Savings Over How
Many Years?
: 10 Years
Fuel Usage
2,000 1 gal
Est Install cost:
$5,000
Local Fuel Ave:
1,014 gal
Heat Pump Capacity Multiplier.
Estimates
Supplemental Heat
F30
°F
Fuel Cost Prior to
$5,240.00
Recommended at T
Heat Pump Install
Electricity Usage :
17215 kWh
Electricity Cost :
$2,754A1
Fuel Usage :
390.9 gal
Fuel Cost
$1,024.17
Average COP
3.07
$ Savings per Year
$1,461.42
CO2 Reduction
29,510 Ibs
Payback (in years) :
3A
% CO2 Reduction
65.78% 10 Years Profit
$9,614.22
% heating load displacment potential:
807% Approx. seasonal equivalent
$1.71 per gal
Utility Cost of Producing Power: $0.080
/kWh
$1,377
/year
Utility Margin on HP Sales: $1,377
/year
Total Savings from HP Use: $2,839
/year
Heating Cost per Year
o oo $1
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cost (SSS)
seoo 00
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Temperature Range
Net Profit over Multiple Years
:2,000.10
0,000.00
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Profit M-0o
4.000.00
2,000.00
0.00
a.0ao.00
4,00000
-6.000.00
Time (years)
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As Alaska's lorgiW.Okivote-sector employer, commercial fisi
and U.5 economies, The AK fishing industry employs tens
Of
for the US and the world. Commercial fishing permit holder'
of other services businesses such 'as hardware and Toflik-
builders, hatcheries, restaurants, scleptists,__
public with access to loco/ seafood teioygh�
mandate ensures sustainab� feftschpqiie4 an
Virtually every U.S.,
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and seafooel - vital component thg, Alaska
--praduGing billions of voundssaf z seaf6bd
resent srttaif--and jamily-owned business, Supporting dozens
fuel, accountants, air and water travel, shipping, boat
Fnlstrators, The seafood'industry provides Alaskans and the
stores, and seafood markets. The state constitutional
?fit of future Alaskans and the world.
coMmericial fishing in A i
760: non resident'
25:resident, 10,946
I resident
- $-�S embers come from every-U State and T6r' ry (ex
cept N. Marjah Js) t
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''dial harvest 6.1 Oillio;n lbs... over 61% of total US harvest'- more than Ahe ' I ' ' OVS
..estimated annual seafood consumption.
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9 Est. arciss axwessel earninEs to fishermen: 91.58. HII nA
comi6ittipi rimthQlOrs live in 214 AK cornmunities3
fie-,.A19 !Uft&Drov1deb-v d'er60.000 direct lobs in Alaska.i. hd thousands
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State, over 50 10
Alaska Commercial Fishery gntry Commja
old In 2016. 4,661oi or�llri at
ADFG commercial crew licenses so 15-1, i
httn!/1wWw.adfP,
3. UFA analysis of 2016 AK CFEC- permit list ;ndADFG Crew lfcep$e list
4, 04talned from commynitlei listed with CFEC permit activity In 2015
S. NOAA landings and ex -vessel value - www,st.n mfs.Qoaa,gcov/cc;mmei
6. Alaska Seafood Marketing institute (ASM!
), 2025 Annual Report - iit4
7. ASMI. Spring 2016 - http-://wwa-Lia-sk-asgaf000.orlz/wo-cgntentlur)l,
8. AK Dept of Labor - httg:lllive.laborstats.alaska.govlsiatogdLse_foo
9 The Econorrili Value of Alaska's Seafood lndustry'=A.$Ml httQ:&ebcoo
10. Ci:m,►fSojn various sources as found on "UFA Alaska Seafood In
hffinwwwl Wworg/wP-contentluplRadsl 0154Q2L4a-Alaska-§e
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sheet, complied . from �613 statistics, on'lln,,ix-, -t
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Updated September 20.16
O1.FA-Mansion
To=;p�otnote-'rand protect the common interest �o, f �4laskWs commercialfishing
thdug , as a vita_ c®mpofi Wt of tag a's so _act sins economic we fieAng.
UFA Policy Statements.
✓ Promote pasitive relations between industry sectors.
✓ Support all con mercial.gear types.and remain neutral, on allocative>issues betvc�een commercial gear groups
✓ Protect industry from attacks through initiatives, legislation, etc.
✓ Promote industry. safety.
✓ Promote healthy fishery resources bysupporting research,and habitat protection.
✓ Support -adequate funding for fishery research; management:And-:enforcement:
✓ Oppose. fish farming..
✓ Support "development of new fisheries.
✓ Educate industry, government aid the public.
✓ Support efforts..to increase consumption of Alaska:seafood':'
✓ Promote quality standards — harvester to consumer.
✓ Protect consumer access to seafood by maintaining a stable supply of product to processors.
SOFA policy -for healthy and sustainable ma nagenment of fisheries
UFA strongly supRorts:
✓ State management of salmon fisheries.
✓ Escapement goal management (Biological Escapement Goals).
✓ Local management that is adaptive and abundance based.
✓ Use of Commissioner's EO authority on an, active' basis, foi' the aoeal rriatiagement of a fishery. "
✓ Mixed stock management
Care Ftihbdons of`UFA in, orider ofpdority
1. Legislative presence _.
2. Provide a forum for communication within the fishing -industry
I Maintain a statewide trade'6rganiiatioi!.Withstaffed-office
4. Public relations and educational programs; targeting
a.: - members
b. seafood industry and other industries
c. general public
MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS' •
Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers - AlaskaIndependent Tendermen's Association - Alaska Lohgline Fishermen's Association ?•Alaska Scallop Association
Alaska Trollers Association - Alaska Whitefish Trawlers Association - Armstrong Kate - At -sea Processors Association - Bristol Bay,Fishermen's Association
Bristol Bay Reserve - Concerned Area "M" Fishermen - Cook Inlet Aquaculture'Association - Cordova District Fishermen -United
Douglas Island Pink and Chum - Freezer Longline Coalition - Golden King Crab Coalition- Groundfish-Forum-,Kenai.Pehinsula:Fishermen's'Association
Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association - North Pacific Fisheries Association - Northern Southeast Regional Aquacuiture'Association
Petersburg Vessel Owners Association- Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corporation i Purse.Seine Vessel Owner Association
Seafood Producers Cooperative. •Southeast Alaska Herring Conservation Alliance - Southeast Alaska -Fisherman's. Alliance
Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association - Southeast Alaska Seiners - Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Associatlon
United Cook Inlet Drift Association - United Southeast Alaska Gilinetters Valdez Pi-sherles Development Association'
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COM4 ants, aiand water travel, hardware and m
Total permits q, ned: 1001 Permit v 0rgo repair nd suoe jj�inesses, advocacy and mqO,'
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at, p-JO gyment, and into n pyah!R, "rMOt6j
Include Alaska DepaO
fe Protection/Alat
Qff— 5116,139to "cks and Harbors
�Mh%ffdz�", 61 i 114
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v'ersity of A we
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by Seward based P
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lea rapt N
million P- larinp Advisq'Lry prpgram, and
01,01
al`n
I' Wo court aroiai fi Bingj Ircalatad in
REVENUhOIR''- -State gypd.,., Mmunthe Inca► i
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purchases V,homes, rentals, I r
3
349;92�,
R
e FY 2015,5harp W aWK" ohicl s, r, , 4 4- U
fipherl ��b 60- he
maintenance paqqpqportation, travel, medical, and '"J"s and landing e!!V �(r [g
-,toy program ffi�Lii�IS fisheries
"Overt' business in the *eward
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Mft --ft6m.commercial fishing dollpr. A& 7heStateQf Alaska received a
t rqugh:
Alaska reside
Total processmy wpyuzk7,-,kf;j ,T
Alaska residerd 0-46swng WI -Ow" dookmo
. PN6,Rctivit�-Ond estimated h
at httDM;Avww.cfeC.state.ak.
jfrorn Ala4a Department of Fish ai
address in a given community. httr
e from QFEC database data found
tls that list home port or ownership
6. NOAA., NMFS
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weight at h.-&MW.4,., gifs' A02Q�Qov CommA
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7, Revenue, Was I are from the Alaska 06ppirth
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Ct use District 29, Senate District
itghe,;Mosr abundant and va
luable p cey to
ertaen, with total landings
51W 110ru thill) $3.4 million
are from the &Rak dMmercial &E try, . . . . . . . .
of full year
Of
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qj Pttofte 9A7 58tiC2y82f�
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.j 1 F € _ , zw , e �° a �` " "�.'` - ....ems'
of s�
Parma holders, crew sand vessels:, ,in �ddt€€on figs detect harvester and proc®ssor workers
F.{i5heries related obs_include hatehenes,'fiue1, acceuntants,
Gomrrtercial fishing permit holders: 1,435r , 1
Total permits owned: 2,200
a Ali, a suitants; atr and water travel, hardware art, mane
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qA
'permit hdlders who fished I I, 0' � rePafIN
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nd supply businessd`s, advocacy `and marktting
t �2 i orgah�taticns, air cargo. clew freigFit agents and
CommercIalcrewmerr� er llo@Rse hoidens ;�6t � �. °
Permit hold rs vuhcrftsii d iu` er sclsntists. ,
p _ p
.. a > `a ..s" �`.:'� d O ,SOW 2,92� ^�y 7 d ' x. a.w '' -'`1 ' J ^
Percentageofhlt�cal�pop�ta[off whofif�ed.1%0 � ss� ��
o}eernment related bs i Jude Alaska Department of
Vesseishame ported �,43 Uesselsowned: 'l,132� ish and4Ga a Fish and lllfiidlife ProtectioniAlask�A
ti f ' r E� +,€gip >�
idn z r ¢ ? �:$u
t . , s Depaptme if o P ibbMSafei ,■ Docks and Marbors q
Each t these indivctferai st a ii and family bi finesses 1=latchetees A aska S ate Troopers -United States Coast
represents env stmnee i,Pern Wy��^4trient, and incorge in ; Guards U Diversity of Ai ska School of Fisheries- Alaska
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the iCenae Peninsula Boro�tg, `� S Grant Marine �ltivfso ro ram, and more;F
m s a y_,,+ rY p :9 r
rs!V`"a' ''ram r*' .F�.�'"s: a, `�'.. i.ER+,-e
g2f
� Esilt is ed ex �cessel fripo- m�: y Kenai Peninsula E eto h� �tat� and Comm n�ty
l3orou l -based fls er sn p7,3 rnillic�n thr�+ugh Fes i�ry i'a e� A-1 a",, '.. .s 5. ��_uawr`s'x f-a ...
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Eatr rigs generate from commercial fishing circulated in FY 2015 shared faxes — The Kenai Penin'tAMO ®oro 'h x �
fhe local_ ecoliomy through property and sales taxes:'
and its commtinetees collectively receivedi 2 mellign
purchases of;homes;xrentais, hotels, eleciricfy in fisheries busane5s and landing tail #hrough
entertainment, ;fuel, v. ehicles, food, repair and ; municipal tax -sharing program fromiffeni Ferlensiafa�.
maintenance parts,:transpQrtation, travel, medleal, and Borough fisheries landings and iZt siriesseS s The State of
,other seervicm: Wieiuyally every bus t:ss in the Kenai Alaska receiv d`a like amount '
Peninsula Borough benefits from commercial fishing
dollara
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F� eena Fenl(sula borough Is in
Morse Qistrfcfs 29 3,
�� , °^� a'�nar{s ens Q arid,P
E�jafoo pxoessing 1st KatPeninsula boiouMSm,41 ` a
C ' 9® dNY r""_02 _ _ ..jai _ .._.
k` ' 3 c c r K@ aft@%trd i OPOtIgh rncdudds COrnmmnitieS of
Alaska resident�pror sstnqlot sin borough: 8�� 4 7 1'1 Z �
s ncha pW, 4 ,lam Gulch, trooper Landing, M
Total processi g wages $'l5 'i rn , j
n c creels, Hadrbkr Bove, Homer, Hope, Kasl/of, d e ali
Alaska residen processin wages 6 7 rnelii a (44"7, /j r
a ; i e < q) li+loo&e Oass 3 Nanwalek, Nikiski, Nikolaevs k;,f rnJlchik,
t fi Number of preinfaciliiss, eddovia, Seward, So/do;
q ,and lCachemak.
��W�
1 met'atatfish rGg pe activity and estimated hate tt' +older are from the Iasi mercial Fi Ent G'" miss+o c
CMto&J�cfec.state.ak.us/fishery statist+" fie rr�+no�tmr �a
C bens arflfrom Alas a Department of Fish Gir,ercialcre r license fist andar" t numb r of full year a ut esid licens
z" holders�hb Ust fie* r"address in a given community. hit tw4uw a mask . ov/index.cfm?adf t+ceiise I+censefiie. _ �:
3. Vessel are from CFEC database data found bntrtt9 �' s://www.dec. ate. k.us/ I o to aW'-. a�rourr commercial ,
shing license vessels that list home• port or ownership m a given community.% "
umber of--processrfrg facilit+es, end poputation data,ijsed'to pataulate t e percents of res+derds v�io sahad a from tfie Alas a artment of 3
merce Commundy, and) c liomiG,Devoppment (l) W Q_ommu Ratatk�se h##os://www eomrr,eTce�aiaska aovideratE� AFxternaL
5. Processor or�iployment anc{ dwaage +sifroil� the �ianita Departing t-of Labor at htt I hue t bcxs fs aTaska ovFseaf !se 'foorlsfafevvide cfm r�
8. Revenue figures are frotri#ha Alaska pepartment pf Revenue shared T i reporthtt.//www la �faska ge hoo ndex a� ��
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