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Staff Report for Presentation on Staff's Recommendation for Climatec Energy Services to Perform Energy/Water Resources Audit and Efficiency Projects
Staffreport
BACKGROUND
In December of 2009 the City adopted a Climate Action Plan (CAP), with a vision to guide San Leandro towards a sustainable future that reduces greenhouse gas emissions from current levels, while promoting economic prosperity for present and future generations.
For the CAP's database year of 2005, the City's measurable municipal operations, which are made up of municipal buildings, fleet, streetlights, water/sewage operations, and municipal waste, constituted less than one percent of San Leandro's total emissions. The CAP noted that while this percentage is on the low end of the typical range, and that actions to reduce municipal energy use may have a limited impact on San Leandro's overall community emissions levels, municipal actions can help reduce operation costs and have symbolic value by demonstrating leadership that extends beyond the magnitude of emissions actually reduced.
Also in 2009, the City received $732,400 as an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) from the Department of Energy, via the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. The 3-year grant funding was divided amongst energy-saving/upgrade programs that were made available to residents and businesses, as well as municipal energy upgrade projects including street lights conversion to LED and building controls retrofits. It is noted that due to the limitation in grant funding, only approximately 14% of the City's street lights were converted to LED, and only the larger/public use City buildings received the building controls retrofit.
In January of this year, the Public Works Department issued a Request for Proposals (RFP 54192) for an energy/water resources audit and efficiency projects. The objectives of the project are: 1) to first identify through a citywide audit, and then 2) imple...
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