columbus energy challenge usgbc lunch n leaders 06-25-15
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Columbus Energy ChallengeUSGBC Lunch N Leaders06-25-15
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 progress3. 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 (http://
columbusfinance.org/energy_fund.aspx)• Utility Incentives• AEP Ohio (www.AEPOhio.com/Solutions) • Columbia Gas (https://
www.columbiagasohio.com/ies )• Green Columbus Fund
AEP OhioContact Angie Rybalt at 614-359-6276 or [email protected]
Columbia Gas of OhioContact [email protected] or at 855-211-4968
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 [email protected]
Erin Miller, Environmental Steward90 W. Broad StreetColumbus, Ohio [email protected]