“Smart Buildings Technician” Course and The “Clean Energy Economy”

Training the “EnergySmart Workforce”

Chuck Brands

VP, Heartland Coalition Director, United GREEN

The “Smart Buildings Technician” Course at Southwestern College

http://eastcountymagazine.org/print/11876

EnergySmart Buildings and the Smart Grid

Enabled by technology, the smart building connects the structure itself to:

• Occupants • Building Systems • The Environment • The Smart Power Grid • The Bottom line • An Intelligent Future

Source: http://www.institutebe.com/smart-grid-smart-building/What-is-a-Smart-Building.aspx

Smart Buildings Technician Course Content

• Making Existing Buildings Energy Efficient and High Performance at Low Cost

• The California Community College “FUSION Onuma Collaboration Platform”

– Simple Digital Building Modeling

– Virtual Monitoring Based Commissioning (Cx)

• Systems and Equipment Performance

– Energy Efficiency Information and Technology

Super Bowl The Need for a Clean EnergySmart Grid and Economy

$470 Million in Public Subsidies to Rebuild the SuperDome after Hurricane Katrina for the Super Bowl

Let’s All Get EnergySmart

• Save Energy and Create Jobs

• Create a New EnergySmart Career Path as part of a New Clean Energy Economy

• A Better Future for Everyone

• Combat Climate Change

Extreme Weather, Climate Change, and Media Silence

• Weather on Steroids – “100 Year Events Now Happen Every Other Year”

• $170 Billion in Weather Related Insurance Claims Last Year

• 2025 Prediction - $1 Trillion in Insurance Claims – Superstorms – Hurricane Sandy – Drought – Wildfires – Forest Dieoff

Superstorms – Hurricane Sandy

Drought Status Nov 22,2012 - “Worst US drought in decades deepens to cover 60 percent of lower 48 states”*

* Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/22/15354660-worst-us-

drought-in-decades-deepens-to-cover-60-percent-of-lower-48-states?lite

Climate Change 101 Bill Nye - The Science Guy

The Triple Bottom Line and The Cost of Inaction

• Triple Bottom Line and True Cost Accounting

– People, Planet, Profit

– Equity, Environment, Economy

• “The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing You”

“While policymakers fiddle, the threat of economic harm posed by rising sea levels, devastating storms, and drought is growing every day.” http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-scary-truth-about-how-much-climate-change-is-costing-you-20130207

The Urgency of Climate Change Action for A Better Future

• DOE Secretary Dr Steven Chu Letter to DOE Employees: “We have a moral responsibility to combat climate change.” “A few short decades later, we don't want our children to ask, “What were they thinking? Didn't they care about us?”

• President’s Inaugural Address on Ignoring Climate Change: “… to do so would betray our children and future generations.”

Climate Change and International Finance: IMF and World Bank Views

• World Bank - The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for programs that reduce poverty – New “Turn Down the Heat” Report - Warns of Devastating Impact of Climate Change – Head of World Bank Quote – “global warming imperils all of the development gains we

have made” and “the world’s top priority must be to get finance flowing and get prices right on all aspects of energy costs and carbon prices to support low-carbon growth.”

• International Monetary Fund (IMF) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization of 188 countries created following WWII to promote international cooperation on trade and economic growth by creating a pool of funds for reconstruction, stabilization of exchange rates, and aid in balance of payments settlements. – Head of IMF Quote - “Climate change, not debt or austerity, will be the greatest

economic challenge of the 21st century. Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be "roasted, toasted, fried, and grilled."

Quotes from January 2013 World Economic Forum, Davos Switzerland

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/roasted-toasted-fried-and-grilled-climate-change-talk-from-an-unlikely-source/article8077946/

International Energy Agency On Climate Change

• IEA 2011 World Energy Outlook - “Bombshell Warning: We’re Headed Toward 11°F Global Warming and “Delaying Action Is a False Economy”

• IEA 2012 World Energy Outlook - “Fossil Fuel Boom Is A Climate Disaster In The Making”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/11/09/364895/iea-global-warming-delaying-action-is-a-false-economy/

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/13/1179251/iea-report-fossil-fuel-boom-is-a-climate-disaster-in-the-making/

Extreme Energy - BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico

Source: www.thetimes.co.uk

Extreme Energy - Shell Oil Arctic Drilling Rig Run Aground Off Alaska

“Tight Energy” - Oil Shale Gas Flaring

New Discoveries - U.S. Oil and Gas Shale - Energy Independence or Bad News?

• Shale Oil and Gas

• Horizontal Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing “Fracking”

• Fracking Fluid a Toxic Brew

• At What Price? Who Wins?

• What Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI)?

• Big California Decision Upcoming - Monterey Shale

Canadian Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline - Carbon Bomb?

“Keystone XL Pipeline: A Presidential Decision That Could Change the World”

• “Alberta’s tar sands are the continent’s biggest carbon bomb,” McKibben wrote at TomDispatch. “If you could burn all the oil in those tar sands, you’d run the atmosphere’s concentration of carbon dioxide from its current 390 parts per million (enough to cause the climate havoc we’re currently seeing) to nearly 600 parts per million, which would mean if not hell, then at least a world with a similar temperature.

• Sierra Club, Civil Disobedience, and Keystone XL – http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2013/01/sierra-

club-engage-civil-disobedience-first-time-organizations-history

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/11-0

Climate Change and Clean Energy: No Breakthroughs Needed – Just Good Policy

• Amory Lovins and RMI

– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amory-lovins/climate-change-no-breakth_b_2654248.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=3840440,b=facebook

• Enable the Local Solar Revolution

– Rooftops

– Parking Lots

– Vacant Land

Like Germany’s Energiewende Where Everybody Wins

The Clean Energy Economy Transition in Germany and Elsewhere

• German Energiewende (Energy Change/Transition Where Everybody Wins) http://grist.org/climate-energy/germany-has-more-solar-power-because-everyone-wins/

1. Germany: 80 Times More Peak Solar Power than U.S. Compared to Electricity Demand 2. California Gets 70% More Sunshine - Germany Equivalent to Northern US/Alaska 3. Germany Has Over 7 X Installed Solar Capacity Compared to US 4. National Policy – Power to the People 5. Cut Red Tape – Rooftop Solar Costs 50% of US Costs 6. Citizens Own Over 50% of Renewables 7. Feed In Tariff

• Saudi Arabia – Largest Oil Producer in the World Wants to be on 100% renewables by 2040 • China – Largest Manufacturer of Solar Panels and Wind Turbines. Major 5 Yr Plan to Transition to Clean

Energy • United States

– California Has Just Now Installed 1 Gigawatt of Solar - Gov Brown Pushing for 12 Gigawatts of Local Renewables by 2020

– Dept of Defense • Navy Green Fleet • Army Renewables Initiatives • Navy Just Completed Phase 1 Microgrid Demo in Pearl Harbor

– Government Services Administration GSA • Smart Buildings Initiative

The Big Energy and Economic Question/Choice

Infinite Growth in a Finite World?

1. Fossil Fuel (Ancient Sunlight) Economy with Endless Growth (3% GDP Every Year?)

• Is this a “Ponzi Scheme” where we “Steal from the Future, Sell It for Profit, and Call It GDP”? – Paul Hawken

Or

2. Sustainable Clean Energy Economy?

• Full World “Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist” – Do the Math - Tom Murphy, UCSD Physicist – http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/

Native American Proverb

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

Climate Change and the Clean Energy Economy

What You Can Do • Get Informed

– Do the Math – UCSD Physicist Tom Murphy http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/post-index/

– Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/

– National Academy of Sciences http://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/

– Skeptical Science http://www.skepticalscience.com/

– Cleantechnica www.cleantechnica.com

– Clean Energy Economy http://thinkprogress.org/tag/clean-energy-economy/

– Dept of Energy/Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy http://www.eere.energy.gov/

– California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) www.energycenter.org

• Get Involved – Support the GoFossilFree.org Divestment Campaign

– Urge Teachers to Support CalSTRS Fossil Fuel Divestment

http://www.teachersfordivestment.com/index.html

– Join Sierra Club, SanDiego350.org, and the Citizen’s Climate Lobby

– Volunteer/Intern for Heartland Coalition

• Support the San Diego Energy District CCA Energy Co-op www.sandiegoenergydistrict.org

• Train for a Green Job at Community College

• Study for a Green Career at SDSU, UCSD etc.

For More Info, Contact: Chuck Brands, VP, Heartland Coalition United GREEN chuckbrands@unitedgreen.org 619-855-5235