Here
are your wEEkly updates:
1.
Call for Posters: Today is the final day to submit an idea to showcase what
happening in your city, county or COG at the SEEC Forum! Learn more and submit
an idea here.
2.
EECC Update: The Public Sector Stage 2 meeting of the EE Coordinating
Committee was held this week to review what problem statements and solutions
Program Administrators are identifying as they plan energy efficiency
programming that will be available to us all in 2017 and beyond. Some meeting
highlights, links to presentations, and instructions on how to submit a
comment, are here.
Other meetings (including Workforce Education & Training, Industrial,
Emerging Technologies, and Codes & Standards) also took place this week –
you can find meeting presentations on the EECC website at caeecc.org. Looking for background on the
EECC process? Click here.
3.
Federal Webinars: a list of energy-related webinars targeting state, local,
and tribal governments (including financing for tribes, and EPA Portfolio
Manager training's) released this week is available here.
For more on available training, click here.
4.
Berkeley’s New Resiliency Plan: This week the City of Berkeley’s Chief
Resilience Officer shared
with CityLab on the City’s new Resilience Strategy, of which energy
and water savings and clean energy investments are key.
5.
More on EE, Demand Response, and Resiliency: More coverage on California
cities taking action on resiliency, and new resources for EE, demand response,
and microgrids to support resiliency can be found here.
6.
Valuing EE: Home Energy Score Resources: New resources are available to
connect residents, local governments, and real estate, inspection, and other
building professionals with the U.S. DOE Home Energy Score: click
here to review. Looking for more on transparency, market drivers, and
valuing EE? Click here.
7.
Committing to the Plan: This week, the City of San Diego made its Climate
Action Plan legally binding in a powerful bipartisan agreement. The
Plan is making headlines for its goal of 100% renewable energy by 2035. For EE
strategies and more on what San Diego’s Mayor Faulconer is calling “common
sense strategies” that save taxpayers’ money, click here.
8.
Implementing the Plan: Moving from planning to implementation takes a group
effort. San Diego is taking this a step further by looking for the best and
brightest ideas for climate action plan implementation through a Smart
City Hackathon.
9.
Heat pump application review: As heat pump technology improves, ACEEE
considers the changing value propositions and economics of deployment. Read
more on ACEEE’s blog here.
10.
One year later: The City of Los Angeles has released its first
annual report on its Sustainable City Plan, highlighting expansions in
solar, energy storage, and savings of 912 gigawatt-hours (GWh).
11.
High Opportunity Programs and Projects: Lots of developments in utility and
CPUC planning for HOPPs this week. For SoCal Gas’s presentation on its
multi-family offerings proposal, click here.
For more on HOPPs, click here.
12.
IEPR Update Update: I shared in a past Update the Integrated Energy Policy
Report (IEPR) Update plans
for this year; the CEC has released an update to that schedule,
available here.
13.
For Water: Better Infrastructure, Not More Infrastructure: For water and
energy efficiency, the former CEO of El Paso Water Utilities Public Service
Board talks
strategy and best practices – including deployment of smart water
management software.
14.
An innovative approach to small business EE: Retired engineers in Michigan
are working together to connect small businesses with energy savings
opportunities. Check out Midwest
Energy News to learn more.
15.
Energy Economics Training: Registration is open for a Executive-level crash
course in the economics of energy and the environment at UC Berkeley’s Energy
Institute at Haas: for more information click here.
16.
The Latest on CPUC ZNE Action Planning: An interactive workshop will be
held in San Francisco on May 12th to review the approach of
developing Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Districts. Click here to
learn more and to register.
17.
More ZNE resources: The New Buildings Institute will be holding a ZNE
policies webinar
May 18th.
18.
Sustainable Freight Planning: the state released a Sustainable Freight Plan
this week in response to Governor Brown’s B-32-15 Executive Order. For more
information click here.
19.
More on Clean Vehicles: learn more about the opportunity for corporate
leadership on clean vehicles in this Environmental
Leader article.
20.
Environmental Justice Public Meeting: the AB 32 Environmental Justice
Advisory Committee (EJAC) will be meeting on May 10th next
week: click here for
more information.
21.
EPIC Feedback: The CEC is seeking feedback on a draft solicitation
targeting new energy technologies for industrial, agricultural, and water
sectors under the EPIC Program. For more info, and a link to the EPIC Program’s
recently-released Annual Report, click here.
22.
CivicSpark Recruitment: The CivicSpark program is recruiting fellows, and
will be hosting several informational webinars for fellows this May.
Click here for
more information and please share with your educational partners! (Information
on how request a Fellow is available through the same link – scroll down.)
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.