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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: July 18, 2016 <br />Presentation <br />Agenda Section:File Number:16-365 PRESENTATIONS <br />Agenda Number:3.A <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY:Cynthia Battenberg <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:Staff Report for Presentation by ZipPower LLC: California Energy Commission <br />Grant to Develop a San Leandro Distributed Renewable Energy Micro Grid <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />In February 2016, Olidata Smart Cities (now ZipPower LLC <http://www.zippower.city/>) <br />entered into a collaboration partnership with the City of San Leandro, OSIsoft <br /><http://www.osisoft.com/>, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs <http://www.lbl.gov/>, GELI <br /><http://geli.net/>, PG&E <http://www.pge.com/> and California ISO <br /><http://www.caiso.com/Pages/default.aspx> to apply for a $1.5 million California Energy <br />Commission <http://www.energy.ca.gov/> (“CEC”) grant under its EPIC Challenge: <br />Accelerating the Deployment of Advanced Energy Communities. The CEC announced in late <br />March that ZipPower had been awarded $1.5Mm, scoring the second highest number of <br />points in the state-wide competition. <br />The CEC grant provides San Leandro the opportunity to be the pilot city in this public/private <br />collaboration to design a citywide local energy program that can be rapidly scaled to other <br />communities. The ZipPower platform proposes economies of scale for deploying solar, <br />battery storage and other energy-related hardware; connecting renewable energy assets <br />through PG&E and fiber optic infrastructure into a local, San Leandro-based micro grid that <br />provides grid resilience and security; and proposes substantial economic benefits through <br />new local jobs and entrepreneurship attracted to the growing <br />energy/hardware/software/internet of things innovation ecosystem. <br />Representatives of ZipPower LLC will be presenting the ZipPower program and platform to <br />the City Council. This is an informational report only. <br />BACKGROUND <br />In 2009, the City of San Leandro adopted its Climate Action Plan: Vision of a Sustainable San <br />Leandro <http://www.sanleandro.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=4904>. The <br />City’s of San Leandro’s climate strategy is based on the Local Governments for Sustainability <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 7/13/2016 <br />12