Columbus Energy Challenge USGBC Lunch N Leaders

HISTORY Mayor Coleman launched Get Green Columbus in 2005: issued the first five year Green Memo, created the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Stewardship and formed the Green Team

2014 ACEEE City Scorecard Results

Recommendations: 1.Focus on large buildings (over 50,000 square feet) 2.Start with benchmarking and reporting annual progress 3.Set targets (70% of building stock by December 2015 and 20% energy reduction by 2020) 4.Make it easy- data availability, training and access to resources.

Building Benchmarking- You can’t manage what you don’t measure

Columbus Energy Challenge launched June ‘14

Results to Date 80 buildings totaling 15,000,000 square feet average 25% electricity reduction since baseline. average Energy Star Score is 68.

Commercial Energy Efficiency Incentives Columbus Region Energy Fund and PACE ( Utility Incentives AEP Ohio ( Columbia Gas ( ) Green Columbus Fund

AEP Ohio Contact Angie Rybalt at or Columbia Gas of Ohio Contact or at

Columbus Region Energy Loan Fund Commercial, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, educational, nonprofits $100K-$5million Energy efficiency improvements (lighting, energy management systems and controls, HVAC, other) and Energy projects (waste energy recovery, fuel cells, renewables, other)

Columbus Region Energy Loan Fund Use Energy SID (like PACE) through Energy Fund Interested.. Contact Jean Carter Ryan at

Erin Miller, Environmental Steward 90 W. Broad Street Columbus, Ohio