County of Santa Barbara Update (Lessons learned) Roy Hapeman 11/13/2014 We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -Native American Proverb

1 Megawatt Solar Array Project Cost $5.5M less $1.7M Rebate for a net Cost $3.8M 1st year avoided utility costs $0.3M 1.21% Loan.

Calle Real Solar

Solar Array is Screwed to the Ground

Lessons Local vendor worked out great – Endelos – Smith Engineering Associates – Smith Electric – Penfield & Smith – MarBorg – Specialty Crane – S&S Seeds, Valley Oaks Printers, Coast Valley Testing, Garcia’s Mobile Grill, Jon Keller Survey, Rivera & Sons Excavation, Dudek, Growing Solutions, Enviroscaping, Eucario Guzaman Landscaping, United Rental, White Cap Supply, California Electrical Supply, Orchard Supply Independent Contractor Commission project Wire management (every wire shall be secure) Extra straw for erosion. Quality US Components ( Solar World Panels ).

The Solar Array is making 9% more power than expected

On Bill Financing Very Very Large Challenge to Pass Legal New LED lights : Dark Sky Compliant DECO lighting (in business for over 56 years) – 10 warranty, 100,000 hour life, if they fail, DECO will fix them. (LA company, CREE LEDs ) – DECO has lights that are rated for 25 years. – 300 watt sodium vapor to 60 watt LED.

Energy Management Software Energy Cap – Good for the price. 100k paid by grant, – Should have asked for more $$ Good Web Pages – Need to get better on reports – Good benchmarking Working out Benchmarking with EPA will be done soon Enormous amount of work.

County Utility stats Approximately 600 bills per month Allocate bills thousands of ways 75% of the bills come in electronically (electric,gas) 25% entered manually ( trash, water, sewer) – Looking at OCR with ECAP Web and client versions.

Every County Employee can access the site and see how their building is doing

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Greenhouse Gas Inventor is Live

Schneider Electric Sub Meters Great equipment Web interface Great Vendor

BenchMarking We put in our data in the EPA website EPA website changed We put in our data in the new EPA website We changed again to comply with ECAP Only some types of buildings will benchmark – (no Sheriff, Jail, Fire station,…) – Good for offices Based of 2003 data Bottom line: A work in progress.

What is Next More level 2 Electric Vehicle charging stations DC Electric Vehicle Fast Charger Lithium Battery 30kw pick shaving system More Solar on County Buildings in Lompoc Building Energy Efficiency Standards Policy for County owned buildings Natural Gas Boiler cycling time modifications Greffen Systems: M2G boiler controller.

ZNE Resolution NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED AND ORDERED that: All new Santa Barbara County owned facilities and major renovations beginning design after 2025 be constructed as Zero Net Energy Facilities with an interim target for 50% of new facilities beginning design after 2020 to be Zero Net Energy. Santa Barbara County departments shall also take measures toward achieving Zero Net Energy for 50% of the square footage of existing Santa Barbara County owned facilities by 2025 and the remaining 50% by You need a Goal, This is the County’s "People with goals succeed because they know where they're going" -- Earl Nightingale, Motivational Speaker

County of Santa Barbara Update (Lessons learned) Roy Hapeman 11/13/2014 We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -Native American Proverb