| Local Policy Description: | The effort to achieve greenhouse gas reductions in the power generation sector will encompass initiatives to influence energy demand and supply. The programs and policies designed to influence energy demand will focus on energy-conservation and energy-efficiency, while the programs and policies targeting energy supply will support environmentally acceptable, sustainable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and small hydroelectric power plants.
The city and county plan to pursue reductions via the specific internal local government actions and community initiatives listed below.
The government will take action by 2003 to:
Invest in all energy-efficiency measures with simple paybacks of 10 years or less.
Develop and adopt energy- and resource-efficient building standards for all city and county new construction and major renovation projects.
Establish city and county policies to purchase ENERGY STARŪ or equivalent products, when available, for any equipment that uses electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.
Require all city and county construction projects to exceed energy code by 20 percent on new construction and 10 percent on retrofits.
Purchase 10 percent of city government electricity load from new renewable resources by 2003.
The government will take action by 2010 to:
Improve energy efficiency in city and county facilities by 10 percent.
Invest in building commissioning for new city and county facilities and retro-comissioning for facilities larger than 25,000 square feet.
Purchase 100 percent of city government electricity load from new renewable resources.
Fully develop the generation potential of anaerobic digester gas produced at the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
Install solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy applications at appropriate city and county facilities.
Explore cost-effective opportunities to invest directly in new larger-scale renewable projects like wind, photovoltaic, geothermal, and landfill gas systems.
The community will take action by 2003 to:
Work with the 100 largest local business, industrial, and institutional energy consumers to establish and meet energy-efficiency and greenhouse gas-reduction targets.
Actively promote the implementation of local commercial and industrial energy-conservation programs funded through the electricity system benefits charge or utility funds.
Facilitate the use of energy-service performance contracts, when appropriate, by businesses, government, and non-profit agencies.
Reduce heating and cooling loads by promoting light-colored roofs and paving materials, planting trees, and increasing vegetative cover.
Support amendments to the State Business Energy Tax Credit and State Energy Loan Program to encourage green building practices and make the tax credit more accessible to organizations.
Encourage residents and businesses to purchase at least 10 percent of their electricity from new renewable sources by promoting green power as a community ethic.
Support the use of the electricity system benefits funding allocated to renewables to leverage the development of new renewable resources.
The community will take action by 2010 to:
Help small businesses, non-profit organizations, and public agencies gain access to energy efficiency services.
Promote opportunities to improve operations and maintenance practices in local buildings, including resource-conservation managers.
Continue to advocate strengthening the Oregon state building code to include all cost-effective energy-efficiency measures.
Work with industry to identify opportunities to improve energy efficiency in process applications, including waste-heat recovery for cogeneration.
Support the establishment of a city energy plans examiner and a required field inspection of energy systems, with technical consultation available at the planning stage.
Develop guidelines for the installation of combustion distributed generation systems to facilitate low-cost interconnection and encourage increased efficiencies.
Support small business conservation programs through new agreements in utility franchises.
Investigate sliding-scale building permit fees with rebates for high-performance green buildings and higher fees for conventional buildings.
Include renewable resource incentives or requirements in utility franchise agreements.
Promote a green-power purchase by aggregating public-sector entities.
Support the deployment of small-scale renewable energy systems in mobile applications.
Provide technical assistance to builders and developers to include solar water heaters and photovoltaics in rooftop and building-integrated systems.
Support code revisions that facilitate low-cost interconnection of photovoltaic and other renewable electricity systems.
Support legislation requiring 20 percent of all power sold to rate-regulated customers be from new renewable resources.
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