Transcript PRESENTATION NAME

2 0 11 SUMMER
CONFERENCE
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort | Tucson, AZ | July 27-29, 2011
Not Just Another Sustainability Plan
City of Tucson
OFFICE OF CONSERVATION &
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Leslie Ethen, Director
Irene Ogata, CPM, RLA, ASLA, AzAPA
Urban Landscape Manager
July 28, 2011
Overview
• The funding source: DOE Energy
Efficiency Community Block Grant (EECBG)
• Projects:
• Neighborhood Streetlight Conversion
Program
• City of Tucson Parking Lot Lighting Retrofit
• City of Tucson Internal Green Team
Energy Efficiency Community
Block Grant (EECBG)
• Part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act 2009
• Received funding in November 2009
• Projects to be completed by
November 2012
Neighborhood Street Light
Conversion Program
• Total contract budget: $420,710
• 2 contractors selected
• 850 Residential street light fixtures replaced
• Low sodium pressure lamps replaced with LED
• 6 neighborhoods identified (1 in each of 6
Ward districts)
Neighborhood Street Light
Conversion Program
Low Pressure
Sodium Lamp
• $420,710 = Installation & Materials
• 850 = lamps replaced (9,000 city-wide)
• $48 = per lamp savings /per year
• $40,800 = per year electric utility cost savings
• LED life span 18 yrs vs 5 yrs LPSL
• 10 years = simple payback (does not include
expenses avoided or incurred for life of LED)
Low LED Lamp
Neighborhood Street Light
Conversion Program
Notes
• Dark Sky concerns: more difficult for
telescopes to filter out the white/blue range
of light than orange = request 3600 K or less
• Important to have fixtures with light cut-off
features – downward focused
• Potential to create
a revolving loan fund
utilizing annual savings
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City Parking Lot Lighting Retrofit
Program
• Total contract budget:
$202,000
• City’s fleet parking lot at
Thomas O. Price Service
Center,
• majority of City’s 2,500 vehicle
fleet parked and serviced here
• 97 fixtures retrofitted
City Parking Lot
Lighting Retrofit
Program
High Pressure
Sodium Lamp
Low LED Lamp
Source: lightingtrendsblog.com
• $202,000 = Installation & Materials
• 97 = lamps retrofitted (106 fixtures in parking lot)
• $16,457 = total electric savings / year
• 164.6 MWh = savings / yr
• 129.9 tons CO2 savings / yr
• 12 years = simple payback (does not include expenses
avoided or incurred for life of LED)
City Parking Lot
Lighting Retrofit
Program
Notes
• Same concerns as Neighborhood Street Light
Conversion Program
Source: Cutoff library.municode
City Green Team Program
• Grant description:
‘. . . supporting our nascent City green Team as it
works to build resource efficiency and sustainability
into City operations, purchasing and facilities
management.’
• Objective:
• Implement Mayor & Council policies
• Illustrate City is operating facilities as efficiently as
possible
• Sustainability & Green Practices have tangible results
• 1997: Internal Green Team formed as part of Special
Projects out of the Manager’s Office
City Green Team Program
• Basic format:
• 3 Green Teams: 1) Energy, 2) Water, 3) Waste/
Procurement
• Process
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Baseline data gathering
Filling in the Gaps
Recommendations & prioritization
Recommendations and metrics
Reporting
• The Green Team’s recommendations
Conclusion
• Jurisdictions are doing something – need to
bring forward information
• Community is watching and are a part of
solution
• Change and improvements are inevitable
City of Tucson
Contact:
Leslie Ethen, OCSD Director: [email protected]
Irene Ogata, OCSD Urban Landscape Manager: [email protected]
OCSD website: http://www.tucsonaz.gov/ocsd/
OFFICE OF CONSERVATION &
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Leslie Ethen, Director
Irene Ogata, CPM, RLA, ASLA, AzAPA
Urban Landscape Manager
July 28, 2011