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File Number: 17-410 <br />resulting in greater occurrence of heat-related illness and increased energy usage for cooling. <br />Conclusions and Next Steps <br />Through its commitment to the Global Covenant of Mayors, the City has pledged to conduct <br />continued tracking of greenhouse gas emissions. Municipal emissions inventories will be <br />updated on a regular basis, while updates to citywide inventories (which rely on outside <br />information more difficult to obtain) will continue to be conducted every three to five years. <br />The City’s transition to the ICLEI ClearPath platform will allow for more consistent tracking of <br />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 <br />intended to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. <br />Overall, the 2015 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and the Climate <br />Hazards Assessment reveal a need to place emphasis on the City’s efforts to reduce carbon <br />emissions, especially in the transportation sector, and to plan for climate hazards already <br />creating impacts in the medium term. <br />Transportation emissions within municipal operations can be addressed over the next few <br />years by switching to renewable diesel for trucks and heavy equipment and electric vehicles <br />(EVs) for certain city vehicles as fleet vehicles are replaced. To attain emissions reductions in <br />the private use of vehicles and commercial trucks, the City can continue to promote the use of <br />EVs but primarily must rely upon state- or utility-sponsored programs for fuel efficiency and <br />fuel switching (converting from gasoline or regular diesel to electric, hydrogen, or renewable <br />diesel fuels). <br />Certain energy efficiency projects (municipal LED streetlighting and efficient HVAC projects <br />and community-wide residential energy upgrade incentive and DIY programs) outlined in the <br />2009 CAP were pursued with federal Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant (EECBG) <br />funding in 2010-2012. However, after the Great Recession, overall coordination of climate <br />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 <br />residential or commercial energy conservation in local ordinances were not implemented. <br />Again, state-wide regulations such as the CalGreen building code will be important elements <br />in achieving energy efficiency in existing and new building projects. <br />In 2017, the City will complete a guaranteed energy savings project for streetlights, irrigation <br />controls and building equipment as well as begin the design and installation of approximately <br />1 megawatt (MW) of solar photovoltaic at the Water Pollution Control Plant, a result of the <br />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 <br />more energy efficient. The statewide energy benchmarking and disclosure program for large <br />commercial buildings, mandated to begin in 2017 under AB 802, will help building owners, <br />operators, and tenants better understand the opportunity to save energy and reduce carbon <br />emissions in existing facilities. Finally, the overall electricity mix will become more weighted <br />with renewables under the Community Choice Aggregation project, East Bay Community <br />Energy. When combined with possible microgrid development, new renewable energy <br />projects in San Leandro’s private and public sector will contribute to decreased emissions in <br />Page 6 City of San Leandro Printed on 7/11/2017 <br />24