Here are
your wEEkly updates:
1.
Resilience Webinar 8/4: Comprehensive
plans and local land use codes and ordinances drive much of the climate
resilience related decision making at the local level, and thus is one key
target for climate integration. Learn more about tying codes and ordinances to
resilience goals in this
Climate Solutions University (CSU) webinar.
2. ARB
Public Workshops beginning 8/9:
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) invites
you to participate in public workshops to discuss updates to ARB’s
Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEP) Policy to benefit disadvantaged
communities. (A SEP is an environmentally beneficial project that a person
subject to an enforcement action voluntarily agrees to undertake in settlement
of the action and to offset a portion of a civil penalty.)
3.
CPUC Lighting Research Plan Webinar 8/1: The 2015 Upstream and Residential Downstream Lighting
Program Impact Evaluation Research Plan has
been posted to the CPUC’s public document site for review and comment, and
a webinar to review will be held on August 1st.
4.
CPUC Behavioral Program Research Plan Webinar 8/1: The Draft Impact Evaluation Research
Plan for the Program Administrators 2015 behavior programs (home energy and
home utility reports) has
been posted to the CPUC’s public document site for review and comment, and
a webinar to review will be held on August 1st.
5.
FHA’s PACE Guidance Reviewed:
In case you missed this week’s webinar explaining last week’s Federal Housing
Administration (FHA) announcement
of clear guidance that will expand access to PACE program renewable
energy, energy efficiency, and other home resiliency projects, a webinar
recording is now available.
6.
CPUC EE Program Review:
the final version of the “2015 Custom Impact Research Plan Addendum – Sampling
– through Q4 2015” has been posted
on the CPUC energy efficiency public documents website. The comment period
on this document will last until August 8th.
7.
Study Reviews EE Behavioral Programs Correcting Market Failure: Energy efficiency—using less energy to
provide an equivalent level of service—is part of the climate policy portfolio.
Market failures might warrant encouraging energy efficiency, but an important
justification comes from the realm of behavioral economics: that people
erroneously underinvest in it. This creates difficulties for policy evaluation,
which assumes that people’s choices, including energy efficiency investments,
reflect actual preferences. Continue
reading the abstract (and more) of this new study from Resources
for the Future.
8. DR
and Storage to Improve Air Quality:
A new
study proposes storage and demand response to avoid extra air
pollution while meeting peak demand – and tests their framework using data from
California’s grid.
9. New
Los Angeles Microgrid:
The Port of Los Angeles will be the site of a $27
million solar+storage pilot program that aims to show how carbon-free
energy solutions can help make marine terminal operations more efficient and
have less environmental impact.
10.
15-Second “Flash” Charging EV Buses Launched: In Switzerland, a
new line of buses can be topped off in a few seconds and fully charged
in minutes.
11.
$4.5 Billion for EV Innovation:
The White House has also announced $4.5 Billion in loan guarantees for EV
charging innovation. Considering electric buses in your own fleet, and want to
understand what this would do to your energy efficiency? Learn more about electric
vehicle infrastructure deployment planning.
12.
Wave Technology Investment:
More on new technologies: Oregon State University’s Northwest National Marine
Renewable Energy Center and CalWave are competing to build
a wave energy test site – and the US Department of Energy said that it
will release up to $40 million for the effort.
13. EE
Internationally: new
figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show world
energy intensity has steadily decreased by nearly 33 percent in the last 15
years – and credits national and subnational energy policies as a major
contributing factor.
14.
New tool tracks electric supply, demand and recovery: The EIA has also launched its Electric
System Operating Data Tool, which provides nearly real-time data, analysis,
and visualizations of hourly, daily, and weekly electricity supply and demand
on a national and regional level and for all of the 66 electric systems that
make up the U.S. electric grid.
15.
Job announcement: the
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is hiring for a Commercial
Development Consultant! Learn 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.
Presentations
from June 24, 25 and 28, 2013 Staff Workshops on The Comprehensive Energy
Efficiency Program for Existing Buildings Draft Action Plan