Statewide LG EE Best Practices: Weekly Update
Here
are your wEEkly updates:
1.
Events today: the CEC is holding
a workshop in Sacramento and by WebEx for
public input on the proposed scope and schedule of the Energy Commission’s
Senate Bill 350 (SB350) Barriers Study. The study focuses on barriers to access
for low-income customers and disadvantaged communities to energy efficiency and
renewable energy investments.
2. Event reminder:
if you haven’t registered for this year’s SEEC Forum, do so before
registration fills up! The 7th Annual SEEC Forum will be held
in Riverside June 15th-16th with two full days of
sessions led by cities, counties, state, utility, and energy representatives,
held at no-cost to local governments.
3. ACEEE’s Summer Study: Registration
is open for ACEEE's 19th biennial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in
Buildings in Pacific Grove, California, August 21-26.
4. Conference: the Next Generation Energy System: Greentech Media will host their Grid Edge World Forum
in San Jose, California, June 21-23. Click here
to register.
5. Demand response webinar 6/9: Learn from EnergyHub about how to create a
best-in-class “Bring Your Own Thermostat” (BYOT) demand response program with
high participation rates in their upcoming
webinar.
6. Microgrids webinar 6/16: Learn more the why, when, and how for optimal microgrid
deployment in this
upcoming webinar.
7. Online office hours 6/14 and 6/28: Looking for support on SEEC’s ClearPath greenhouse
gas inventory and climate action planning tool? Online office hours are
scheduled for Tuesday 6/14 and 6/28 at 11am.
8. Energy data access survey reminder: local governments have a special
opportunity to provide input on their experiences accessing energy
data for climate action planning to the state’s Energy Data Access Committee.
This survey will be closing soon – please provide your experiences to help
guide data access policies.
9. Local government action on Climate Action Plans: Congratulations to San Bernardino’s Victorville
for passing
its climate action plan, and to Sebastapol for adopting
13 goals from the region’s “Climate Action 2020” plan. (For more on
climate action plans, click here.)
10. New funding for climate change resilience: PG&E has
just announced plans to award $1 million to support local climate
change resilience planning. Two grants of $100,000 will be awarded per year for
five years beginning in 2017.
11. Funding reminder:
deadlines are coming up for applications
to federal funds for local pollution source reduction ($2.2M due 6/6),
disaster and flood mitigation ($289M due 6/15), community resilience
($4.5M due 6/20), HUD choice neighborhoods ($120M due 6/28), and more.
12. EE and Solar Save California $192 Million? Hear from Greentech
Media about how the great work in our cities and counties is reducing
the need for new investment.
13. The value of cool roofs: Just in time for summer: a new
study has reviewed the potential for cool roofs and green roofs to
reduce urban heat island effect and improve air quality in the City of Chicago.
For more on cool roofs in California, click here.
14. EE for realtors:
A two-day
training event for National Association of Realtor (NAR) Green
Designation will be held in Yolo County June 14th-15th,
connecting realtors with the value proposition of green homes and how to sell
to home buyers increasingly interested in high home efficiency and performance.
This event has no registration fee thanks to support from PG&E.
Please share with your real estate community! (Looking for more resources on
the business case for efficient buildings? Click here.)
15. Green lease resources: I recently put out an ask to the network regarding
green lease resources on behalf of several interested local governments – and
received a number of great recommendations of resources. I’ve added them to the
EECoordinator.info website – search green lease to review.
Or, check out a new
report prepared for the Port of San Diego on sustainable incentives
best practices.
16. More on green leases and green tenants: Or, check out Portland’s Green
Tenant Improvement Guide, a publication
by the DOE looking at the feasibility of energy efficiency in separate
tenant spaces, or this 2015 EPA
publication sharing case studies of how landlords and tenants have
overcome split incentive and other challenges to achieve energy efficient,
high-performing buildings.
17. EE through building user feedback: check out how UC Davis is reducing
building energy waste and improving student comfort through a new app.
18. ZNE in a Sunnyvale Racquetball Facility: Learn in this
new video about how architects, developers and builders took a
windowless, concrete “tilt-up” racquetball facility and retrofitted it to a
desirable, zero net energy (ZNE) commercial property cost-effectively,
repurposing nearly 95% of materials and creating a comfortable work
environment.
19. New developments in Zero Net Energy: from Hayward’s new commitments to ZNE in municipal
buildings, to Palo Alto’s work toward a new reach code, to Lancaster’s award of
$1.47M for conversion to ZNE, local governments are acting on ZNE
across the state. Learn more here.
20. Electric vehicles as a Distributed Energy Resource
(DER): two new online videos on electric
vehicles came out in the last week: learn from the Rocky Mountain Institute
(RMI) and SDG&E about best
practices in deploying electric vehicles as a distributed energy resource.
21. SCE’s Charge Ready Program: for those in Edison territory, a new video provides
an overview of new electric vehicle offerings.
22.
Job announcements: the Local Government Commission is hiring for a Energy
Program Manager! Learn more here.
LGC is also hiring for an IT Assistant – more here.
As
always, you can keep track of relevant events by connecting to the EE
Events Calendar, and find more resources being added daily on the EECoordinator website – including
past WEEkly Updates.