# Presentation: 486652

## Utility Brown Bag Series

**Pre-Rinse Sprayers**
**-learn more about this measure and a turn-key opportunity in Oregon.**

**June 21, 2006**
**12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (PDT)**

**Speakers:         Mira Vowles, BPA**
**	****        ****Brent Barclay, Columbia River PUD**
**	****        ****Tim Lammers, Columbia River PUD**
**	****       ****Lyn Schmidt, Lockheed Martin**
**	****       ****Lee Kuhl, Lockheed Martin**

**Call number (888) 285-4585, code 787517**
-  * please state your utility name when asked for “location” upon entering the call

## Pre-Rinse Sprayers

**	**New commercial dishwashing pre-rinse sprayers are engineered to use less water for rinsing dishes, saving water and the energy used to heat the water

## Pre-Rinse Sprayers

- Pre-rinse sprayer savings are deemed
- For Post 2006 Conservation Programs:
- BPA will reimburse/credit $150 per qualified installation
- Including the admin allowance, the total BPA reimbursement/credit is $172.50 per qualified installation
- Qualified installations require that the water for dishwashing be heated with electricity and that the facility has ten or more meal offerings per week; clear cut exceptions must be documented

## Pre-Rinse Sprayers in Oregon

- The Energy Trust of Oregon has hired Lockheed Martin (L-M) to administer their** **Pre-Rinse Sprayer Program
- L-M is marketing Northwest Natural customers and will be marketing Cascade Natural Gas customers this summer
- In Oregon, pre-rinse sprayers must be installed by a licensed, journeyman plumber
- This is an opportunity for turn-key installations of pre-rinse sprayers

## Columbia River PUD’s Experience

- Brent Barclay & Tim Lammers

## Lockheed Martin is the ETO Contractor for Pre-Rinse Sprayers in Oregon

- To learn more about the ETO Pre-Rinse Sprayer Program, contact Lyn Schmidt, Lockheed Martin
-  		(503) 224-4751 Office
- 		(503)  243-1154 Fax
-      _[Lyn.K.Schmidt@LMCO.com](mailto:Lyn.K.Schmidt@LMCO.com)_
-      _[Lschmidt@aspensys.com](mailto:Lschmidt@aspensys.com)_

## The Foodservice Industry

- Restaurants are the cornerstones of the economy, offering career and employment opportunities for millions of Americans and local communities.
- The industry is the largest private sector employer, 9% of the workforce or 12.5 million people.
- Nationally with 925,000 locations the industry’s overall impact on the U.S. economy is about $1.3 trillion a year – about 10 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product.
- More than seven out of 10 eating-and-drinking places are single-unit (independent) operations.
- Restaurants are mostly small businesses, with 7 out of 10 having fewer than 20 employees.

## Restaurant Numbers By State

- Idaho			 3,506
- Montana			 3,310
- Oregon			 9,721
- Washington		15,189
- 	Total			       31,726

## Why it is an important program

- Reaches small business owners
- Reaches an under served, hard to reach market with high energy use
- Wide variety of applications – from fast food to fine dining, grocery stores, hospitals and schools
- Appetizer for energy efficiency foodservice equipment
- Low cost delivery program which strengthens the economy
- Saves energy and water!

## The ETO multi-faceted approach to Pre-Rinse Sprayers in Oregon

- NW Natural bill insert April 2006.
- NW Foodservice Show.
- Restaurant Equipment Suppliers.
- Oregon Restaurant Association Main Ingredient magazine ads.
- Direct mail.
- Door to door canvassing.