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13 <br />Future Inventories and Next Steps <br />The City is committed to continued tracking of greenhouse gas emissions. Municipal inventories will be updated on a <br />regular basis, while updates to citywide inventories (which rely on outside information more difficult to obtain) will <br />continue to be conducted every five years. The City’s transition to the ICLEI ClearPath platform will allow for more <br />consistent tracking of greenhouse gas trends in future years. To translate the information contained in these <br />inventories into action, the City and its partners continue to develop and execute policies intended to help mitigate <br />greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, the 2015 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory reveal a need to place emphasis <br />on the City’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions, especially in the transportation sector. <br />Transportation emissions within municipal operations can be addressed over the next few years by switching to <br />renewable diesel for trucks and heavy equipment and electric vehicles (EVs) for certain city vehicles as fleet vehicles <br />are replaced. To attain emissions reductions in the private use of vehicles and commercial trucks, the City can <br />continue to promote the use of EVs but primarily must rely upon state- or utility-sponsored programs for fuel <br />efficiency and fuel switching (converting from gasoline or regular diesel to electric, hydrogen, or renewable diesel <br />fuels). <br />Certain energy efficiency projects (municipal LED streetlighting and efficient HVAC projects and community-wide <br />residential energy upgrade incentive and DIY programs) outlined in the 2009 CAP were pursued with federal Energy <br />Efficiency Community Block Grant (EECBG) funding in 2010-2012. However, after the Great Recession, overall <br />coordination of climate action activities ceased and those federal programs were terminated when the EECBG <br />funding ended in 2012. Mandatory measures that were proposed in the 2009 CAP to require residential or <br />commercial energy conservation in local ordinances were not implemented. Again, state-wide regulations such as <br />the CalGreen building code will be important elements in achieving energy efficiency in existing and new building <br />projects. <br />In 2017, the City will complete a guaranteed energy savings project for streetlights, irrigation controls and building <br />equipment as well as begin the design and installation of approximately 1 megawatt (MW) of solar photovoltaic at <br />the Water Pollution Control Plant, a result of the award by the California Energy Commission of a $1.996M grant. <br />In the building and facilities sector, greener building codes will ensure that new construction is more energy <br />efficient. The statewide energy benchmarking and disclosure program for large commercial buildings, mandated to <br />begin in 2017 under AB 802, will help building owners, operators, and tenants better understand the opportunity to <br />save energy and reduce carbon emissions in existing facilities. Finally, the overall electricity mix will become more <br />weighted with renewables under the Community Choice Aggregation project, East Bay Community Energy. When <br />combined with microgrid development, new renewable energy projects in San Leandro’s private and public sector <br />will contribute to decreased emissions in building energy use. <br /> <br />39