1. Back to the Basics: Climate and Energy Workshop Energy Efficiency Best Practices Karalee Browne

2. Energy Efficiency Best Practices Energy Efficiency is the least visible and often least expensive sustainability best practice, but can can often result in the most substantial financial and environmental benefits. Many local governments have been implementing programs and activities for decades, and yet much of the low hanging fruit has yet to be picked.

3. Leaders of the Pack Portola Valley 43% Millbrae 42% Dublin 31% Brea 30% Colma 29% Rolling Hills Estates 27% Manhattan Beach 26% Santa Clarita 26% Hayward 25% Chula Vista 24% San Diego County 23% (percentages reflect projected savings from agency retrofit projects)

4. Energy Efficiency Best Practices Start With What You Have: Conduct Audits and Retrofits Fund For the Future: Create your Own Funding Stream Promote Behavior Change: Involve Your Community Build Efficiently: Promote Progressive Policies

5. Start With What You Have Retro-commissioning is a critical piece of facilities maintenance that ensures good facility operations, longer facility equipment life, improved comfort and productivity of occupants – and energy and cost savings. The City of Simi Valley, working with Southern California Edison through their Energy Leadership Partnership, has completed a retro-commissioning policy to implement in their buildings.

6. City of Tulare Using a performance agreement with an outside firm, the City of Tulare retrofitted all city buildings — where cost effective — with high-efficiency heating and cooling systems, double-paned windows, efficient fluorescent lighting, programmable thermostats and reflective roof coating.

7. City of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita used American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for lighting retrofits in agency facilities. The retrofits save the city nearly 284,000 kilowatt hours a year, translating into annual savings of approximately $32,100.

8. City of Chula Vista Chula Vista installed new high-efficiency boilers at two municipal aquatic centers, resulting in more than 75,000 therms in annual natural gas savings. The city saves 300,000 kilowatt hours annually from heating and air conditioning energy efficiency upgrades at the city’s public works facility. Combined, the projects save the city about $97,000 annually.

9. Heating, Air and Vending Glendale conducted several rounds of energy efficiency upgrades in its 23 city facilities. Retrofits included heating and air conditioning, lighting and vending machine upgrades. The city also installed equipment to transfer energy use to off-peak hours. These efforts reduced annual energy use by 2.3 million kilowatt hours and 47,000 gas therms, saving $180,000 per year. Sonoma County implemented 38 energy efficiency retrofit measures in 24 county buildings, including lighting retrofits in 20 buildings and heating and air conditioning upgrades in four facilities. This project reduced the county’s energy utility bills by 33 percent, translating to $1.6 million in savings annually, with a total savings of $38 million over the 25-year life of the project.

10. Create Your Own Funding Stream The City of Sacramento used ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funds to seed an internal public works retrofit project. The money saved from the retrofit, was then put into a Capital Improvement Account. The city loans individual departments money for additional retrofit projects via this account, and creates MOUs indicating that each department will receive future savings benefit from the retrofits after the fund has been paid back.

11. Challenge Your Community The City of Claremont participates in community-driven energy conservation programs such as the Cool California Challenge and the Georgetown University Energy Prize Challenge as a means of engaging residents on energy efficiency.

12. Use Data to Influence Change The City of Davis is using permitting data to understand which residents may soon be replacing an HVAC system. This provides the city the opportunity to use community-based social marketing to more effectively communicate and provide energy efficiency materials to residents at the right time.

13. Make Energy Efficiency Fun The City of Palo Alto is launching a virtual lottery competition. For every percentage of energy residents save over their previous year’s baseline, he or she will receive a virtual lottery ticket that will be entered to win prizes ranging from solar hot water heaters to an electric car lease!

14. Build Efficiently The Hayward City Council recently directed staff to assure that all new municipal buildings, as well as significant retrofits of existing municipal buildings, be zero net energy (ZNE) buildings. Hayward will have buildings that produce as much energy as they consume over the course of a year and be “off the grid”. This goal depends on a significant use of solar photovoltaic panels and other technologies. Staff is already aggressively addressing this policy through construction of the new Library & Community Learning Center, which will be ZNE; and the retrofit of existing fire stations, most all of which will be retrofit with solar photovoltaic.

15. Pass Progressive Policies The City of Berkeley recently passed a Building Energy Saving Ordinance that requires building owners to complete energy efficiency assessments and publically report the findings.

16. For more Energy Efficiency Best Practices Visit: ca-ilg.org/sustainability- best-practices-framework