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Customers will also be offered a$25 rebate towards the purchase and installation of a WIFI compatible thermostat. Typical cost of the products range from ($84 to $250) End Date: September 30, 2018 Financial Impact: Direct financial impact to ERMU will be minimal as a result of structuring the customer bill credits to coincide with credits received from the wholesale power provider. Field services will re-allocate existing resources to remove and disable the radio receiver so there will be no direct financial impact to ERMU. Customers will no longer receive a monthly credit. Communication Plan: ERMU will communicate to customers through a letter in July 2017 that the program will end December 31, 2019. In conjunction with the annual rate tariff approvals, ERMU staff will provide follow-up letters to participants informing them of the new monthly rate and the pending program end date of December 31, 2019. In January 2020 the remaining participants will be notified that the meter is going to be removed, and will also be given a timeframe for when the removal will take place. Electric Thermal Storage(ETS) Water Heating Current Status: Moratorium Customers Impacted: 193 Program Transition Plan: Convert from direct load control to Time of Use (TOU) rates, and incentivize customers to upgrade to a heat pump water heater. Customers will be offered a rebate up to $500 towards the purchase and installation of an air source heat pump water heater with an energy factor greater than 2.0. If the customer converts to the air source heat pump water heater, they will receive the rebate and be converted to a Time of Use (TOU)rate for the next billing month. If the customer does not purchase the air source heat pump water heater(HPWH), they will be converted to the TOU by October 2018. All rebate applications must be submitted to ERMU on or before September 30, 2018. The typical cost of a HPWH ranges from ($1,200 to $1,700), and installation costs vary depending on site conditions; quotes online were $300 to $400. End Date: Not Applicable Financial Impact: ERMU will install a new TOU meter for each customer that converts to the time of use rate. The meter cost per account is $250 - $275. The total cost to convert all customers meters over two years is estimated to be $53,000. Customers transferred from Connexus will be added to this program. The TOU rates will be similar to the rates that are currently in place for the electric vehicle charging program. On peak energy costs will apply to energy used weekdays between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Off- Peak hours will be all others including weekends and holidays. Rate impacts to the customer can be minimized based on how the customer utilizes energy with the TOU rates. Communication Plan: ERMU will communicate to customers in July and August about program changes. Details on the program changes and rebate forms will be provided in these letters. Electric Thermal Storage (ETS) Space Heating Current Status: Moratorium Customers Impacted: 6 Program Transition Plan: Convert from direct load control to Time of Use (TOU) rates and incentivize customers to purchase a WIFI compatible thermostat. Customers will be Page 2 of 3 83