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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK 2028 they would have to install the Flue Gas Desulfurization. That is millions or billions of dollars and we expect they will choose to not do that and to stop burning coal all together. Ms. Beduhn continued, So those dates are five (5) and ten (10) years out and well within this twenty (20) year plan they are looking at. So there is this opportunity to see what they replace all that Rockport power with. We are hoping they choose renewable and efficient energy. On page three (3) of the handout, that is what we just went over. The next stakeholder workshop is here in South Bend and it is on August 1St,2018. That is the time when they are going to present different models and different scenarios they will be choosing from. There is all this complicated modeling that goes on and so they will lay out all the choices of models and then they have to make that final decision of what the want their twenty 20 year energy plan to look like and submit it to the Y Y ( ) Y gYp Indiana Regulatory Commission. On August 1 St we expect them to show us a plan that does involve a lot more renewable energy. However, we are concerned that maybe their focus on energy efficiency may fall short of what we would like to see. We do also expect them to show a plan that would include building a new gas plant to rely on natural gas to replace some of that coal power. Our goal is that they not go the route of natural gas and that they commit to replacing all of the Rockford Coal power with renewable power through solar, wind and energy efficiency projects. Ms. Beduhn went on, If they want to use gas,we might choose that. It is not necessary to invest in expensive plans that will burden the community. They ask us to pay for these projects and it will probably be obsolete. Really, fossil fuels are not the future. Renewable is. We are encouraged to think that this is an opportunity to model that renewable plan and then choose it. The rest of these slides really talk about some of the opportunities as a community that would be available if we were to get I&M on board with investing in these renewable concepts. On slide four (4) it breaks down the cost of solar and wind as well as the coal and gas. Right now, to produce one (1) megawatt hour of power,the current coal situation is costing us thirty nine dollars ($39). So when that coal burnin g g oes away, they could replace it with gas and it would actually cost them forty two dollars ($42) per megawatt hour. The health of the environment should be really important to all the decision makers. Wind is the cheapest way to go and it is twenty nine dollars ($29) per megawatt hour. Solar would be thirty seven dollars ($37) per megawatt hour according to the sources indicated on the bottom. Ms. Beduhn continued, We do expect to see a lot of investment in solar energy and we are hoping to see the City of South Bend really start thinking about how that would look for our City with our opportunities here. Slide five (5) shows some of the solar installations that are popular in this part of the country. I know you are aware of projects like the Near Northwest Neighborhood and Century Center, and even our new Fire House. Those are projects we are encouraging. Slide six (6) highlights a project called Brownfield to Brightfields. It was a research project that Ball State did. They gave a lovely presentation at the I&M stakeholder meeting this past February. What I like about it was it really focused on studying those Brownfields in Delaware County and how those can be converted into utility-scale solar projects. They found several potential sites in their county which is very similar to the situation we have up here. There are a lot of old spaces that need to be utilized in an effective and efficient way. They calculated in their study that they could generate sixteen (16) megawatts of power from just four (4) sites in their one (1) county. That is in excess of the current megawatts that I&M does at all. So their potential there in just those few sites is a vast improvement from where they are at now. EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455County-City Building,227W.Jefferson BvldI South Bend,Indiana 466011p574.235.9221If574.235.9173 TTD574.235.55671www.southbendin.gov 2