Statewide Energy Efficiency Collaborative June 17 & 18

Main Themes1. Tracking Progress

– Tools– Transparency

2. Reaching the “hard to reach”– Getting to the next level– Customizing based on community profile– Collaboration

3. Framing & messaging– Eco America approach– Focus on upbeat, positive, value-driven

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Purpose:Inspire and

empower our customers to

eliminate unnecessary energy use

PG&E UpdatesPilots – Step Up and Power Down•Commercial – San Francisco and San Jose•Residential – San Carlos and Redwood City

Energy Efficiency Portfolio – Regulatory Update•Phase 1 – Acknowledged 10-year rolling cycle•Phase 2 – Stakeholder group exploring how to implement. Extend programs into 2016. Awaiting decision in July. •Phase 3 – Longer term issues – cost effectiveness, baselines for savings

Contracting for 2016•Assumption – 2016 is a repeat of 2015 – budget and scope•July – August – Partner planning meetings•September – October – Contracting•November – Finalize Contracts

More Regulatory Updates• On-Bill Repayment pilots coming – end of 2015• CPUC evaluating cost effectiveness and value of programs• AB 758

– Doubling of building energy savings (17% reduction in statewide building energy use by 2030)

• Challenge Program - Grant program from CEC– Estimated launch 2016/2017 – $13 million for year 1– $20 million/year for subsequent years

Dian Grueneich• Former CPUC Commissioner – renewable energy• Researcher for Stanford• Upcoming white papers:

1. Next Level of Energy Efficiency2. New Tools and Opportunities3. Revamping Our Policy Framework

• 2nd conference• Hosted by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Governor’s Office of Planning &

Research• Focused on in-depth issues in GHG emissions reduction and climate

adaptation at the local and regional level• Topics: Changes since the first conference

• new 2030 emissions targets• advances in regional climate planning• updated protocols and guidance• drought

Highlights• SMCEW on panel about CAP tracking• Western Riverside COG – tracking – health benefits• Policies supporting GHG reductions

• Chula Vista – Business energy evaluations – required for business license

• San Diego – Energy disclosure ordinance• SLO County – mode share goals funding percentages

• PG&E working on Embedded Energy Calculator

Highlights• LA Cleantech Incubator

• Public-private partnership created by City of LA• 40 early-stage companies in downtown LA• Technologies: EE, storage, water, home energy

management, online solar marketplace, efficient lighting, advanced transportation, goods movement

• Accept 1 in 10 companies that apply• Expanding/strengthening ties with universities, govt, labs

• Riverside Restorative Growthprint• Annual clean-tech symposium• EcoBusiness Zone• Invite-only workshops• Crowd-sourcing and research campaign

California Climate Change Symposium 2015

Using Climate Science to Plan for a Resilient Future August 24-25, 2015

Sacramento Convention Center 1400 J Street, Sacramento 95814

California Climate Change Symposium 2015 is the premier forum for the sharing of cutting-edge research addressing the impacts of climate change on the state. This research informs the state’s strategies and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to develop programs to safeguard California from a changing climate. California Climate Change Symposium 2015 is convened by the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Highlights:Veerabhadran Ramanathan – (Opening Planary Panelist)On Pope Fancis’ Council for Pontifical Academy of Sciences

• suggested to Pope Francis to tell people to learn to live in nature with the earth.

Vast number of organizations working on models and Studies•UCLA – Dynamic Regional Climate Models•USGS – Atmospheric Rivers, Hydrological projections•Scripps Institute for Oceanography – Estimating Climate Change•UC Berkeley – Geospatial Innovations•Applied Geosolutions - Agricultural Practices and N2O Emissions•NASA – Monitoring Urban-Scale Carbon Emissions•UC Merced – Wildfire and Fuels Management•Nature Conservancy – Geospatial Resilience Mapping for Land Protection•Stanford – Climate Change and the CA Drought•Pacific Institute – Extreem Hydrologic Events•Public Policy Institute – Managing Water Resources•UC Santa Cruz – Managing CA Coastal Resources•USGS – Coastal Storm Modeling System

More:• Ocean Protection Council – Case Study, Acidification and Hypoxia• Public Health Institute – Climate Change and Human Health, State of Science• USC – Climate Change: Environmental Justice and Community Impacts• Office of Env. Health and Hazard Assessment – Heat-related Morbidity• UC Merced – Managing Forests for Mitigation and Adaptation• UC Berkeley – Managing Rangelands for Carbon Sequestration• and others …..

Highlight – CA has more climate science in progress than any other place in the world.

Challenges:• converting the science into useful tools for community and policy

development• Community engagement, especially underserved.

Thank you!

Susan Wright Resource Conservation SpecialistCounty of San Mateo650-599-1403 swright@smcgov.org

Kim SpringerResource Conservation Programs ManagerCounty of San Mateo650-599-1412 kspringer@smcgov.org