The City Energy Project Feb. 21, 2014 | E2 Laurie Kerr Laurie Kerr, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Feb. 21, 2014 | E2

Laurie Kerr Laurie Kerr, AIA LEED AP , AIA LEED AP Director, City Energy Project Natural Resources Defense Counsel lkerr@nrdc.org

Introducing

The City Energy Project

An ambitious national initiative to improve the energy efficiency

• f existing buildings in 10 major American cities.

Working at this scale required us to aggregate significant resources: 3 major funders and a partnership of 2 organizations

About the City Ener About the City Energy Pr gy Project

• ject

Cities will lead because they ar Cities will lead because they are building dominated. e building dominated.

38 ¡ 70 ¡ 51 ¡ 65 ¡ 75 ¡ 62 ¡ 75 ¡ 74 ¡ US ¡ Chicago ¡ Dallas ¡ Minneapolis ¡ New ¡York ¡City ¡ Philadelphia ¡ Salt ¡Lake ¡City ¡ Washington, ¡DC ¡

Percentage ¡of ¡Total ¡Carbon ¡Emissions ¡ ¡ from ¡Building ¡Sector ¡

We need to start with the existing buildings e need to start with the existing buildings

• - the lar
• - the largest existing buildings.

gest existing buildings.

BY 2030, ROUGHLY 80% OF THE BUILDINGS IN OUR CITIES WILL BE BUILDINGS WE ALREADY HAVE TODAY JUST 2% TO 5% OF THE BUILDINGS IN CITIES ACCOUNT FOR ROUGHLY HALF THE SQUARE FOOTAGE

An astonishing amount of ener An astonishing amount of energy is wasted by the poor performers. gy is wasted by the poor performers.

4 TO 8 TIMES THE

ENERGY IS USED BY THE POOR PERFORMING BUILDINGS, AS PER THE NYC BENCHMARKING ANALYSIS

18% TO 31%

CITYWIDE ENERGY REDUCTIONS COULD BE ACHIEVED BY IMPROVING THE POOR PERFORMERS

But Energy Efficiency is not happening at scale

CEP’ CEP’s policy toolkit can help over policy toolkit can help overcome the barriers to ener come the barriers to energy ef gy efficiency ficiency

INFORMA INFORMATION GAP TION GAP FINANCIAL BARRIERS FINANCIAL BARRIERS INER INERTIA TIA COMPLEXITY COMPLEXITY Require benchmarking & disclosure, audits, tenant sub-metering Provide financing; Align lease structures Require improved operation, cost effective upgrades, and code enforcement Lead by example by city government & challenge programs

And CEP will pr And CEP will provide assistance to cities

• vide assistance to cities

Local Assistance Local Assistance

• Funding for 1 or 2 on-site technical advisers
• Funding to engage local partners
• Funding for analytical consulting services

CEP Hub Assistance CEP Hub Assistance

• Tool kit: model laws, communication packages, etc.
• Hands-on technical expertise and guidance
• Advancement of national level tools and standards
• Facilitation of inter-city collaboration
• Media support

These new policies ar These new policies are alr e already impacting a tr eady impacting a tremendous amount of emendous amount of squar square footage e footage

5.4 BILLION SF IS NOW

ANNUALLY IMPACTED BY CITY BENCHMARKING POLICIES NATIONWIDE

And they ar And they are cr e creating skilled, local jobs…the NYC story eating skilled, local jobs…the NYC story

BENCHMARKING BENCHMARKING RETROFITS RETROFITS AUDITS & AUDITS & RCx RCx

• Almost one billion sf of lighting upgrades by 2025
• 260 million sf being upgraded by the city
• >100 million sf being upgraded in challenge programs
• Approx. 260 million sf required to audit & RCx annually
• 1000 properties submitted audit & RCx reports in 2013
• 80% of the benchmarking was done by consultants;

68% of that was done by 30 firms

• FS Energy will be retrofitting 40 buildings this year
• Steven Winter Associates has added 10 – 15 employees

For mor For more information on jobs, see r e information on jobs, see report issued by IMT eport issued by IMT

http://www.imt.org/uploads/ resources/files/ Energy_Disclosure_New_Fro ntier.pdf

The ten CEP cities have now been selected. The ten CEP cities have now been selected.

Philadelphia Boston Atlanta Orlando Chicago Houston Kansas City Salt Lake City Denver Los Angeles

You’r

• u’re going to hear fr

e going to hear from two of them today – Chicago & Los Angeles

• m two of them today – Chicago & Los Angeles

Chicago: Jamie Ponce Chicago: Jamie Ponce

• Chicago City Director for C40
• Helped spearhead Chicago’s benchmarking ordinance
• Consultant at ATKearney for ten years
• Masters in Business and Public Administration from

Harvard University Los Angeles: T Los Angeles: Ted ed Bar Bardacke dacke

• Deputy Director for Sustainability, LA
• Senior Associate at Global Green for ten years
• Correspondent for Financial Times for seven years
• Masters in Planning from Columbia University