Awards Celebration and

Microsoft PowerPoint - FINAL 2009 SSB Award Ceremony_9_24_09.ppt [Read-Only]September 24, 2009September 24, 2009
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AWARD WINNERSAWARD WINNERS
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• Outstanding support to local community on conserving resources and reducing energy consumption.
• Onsite Energy Audits – evaluate energy usage, recommend energy efficiency improvements, project dollar savings and payback periods.
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• Greenergy® - Nation's fifth-largest green pricing program, certified by the Green-e Renewable Electricity Certification Program.
• SolarShares – First program of its kind, and the largest in the nation. Innovative effort to support renewable energy. Participants "buy into" a local solar farm.
• Upgraded pneumatic control systems at their American River College, Cosumnes River College, and Sacramento City College campuses with state of the art direct digital controls, variable speed drives, and carbon dioxide sensors.
• Reduction in engery consumption of over 3,214,000 kWh per year. • Annual savings of approximately $289,000. • Annual emissions reduction of over 3.5 million pounds of CO2 associated with this project is equivalent to removing over 300 passenger cars from the road per year.
• Heat Recovery Project - Captures thermal energy from spent cooker cooling water to produce product tempered water for use in new sterilizers.
Expected energy savings of 75,929 Million BTU/year.
• Anaerobic Digestion Project - Provided food waste to UC Davis and Onsite Power Systems July 2008 – May 2009 for use and study of an anaerobic digestion system.
Recycles up to 10 tons of plastic per month.
Recycles almost 100 tons of cardboard per month.
• Lighting Project - Switch plant over to more efficient, fluorescent fixtures, lamps, and sensors and installed occupancy sensors to turn lights off in certain areas.
Expected to save over 4 Million kwh/year.
• Noteworthy commitment to the sustainability program by implementing measures and certifying all corporate locations.
ParagaryParagary Restaurant GroupRestaurant Group
Kikkoman Foods, Inc.Kikkoman Foods, Inc.
•• First Sacramento area business to earn Platinum certification by implementing a third complete set of additional sustainability measures. • With City of Folsom Water Quality Division, completed water audit of all manufacturing operations and landscaping of it’s 50-acre campus.
• Completed SMUD Energy Use Assessment. • Installed secure area for bicycle parking to encourage employees to ride bikes to work. • Instituted program to purchase paper products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. • Installed regenerative heating process to reduce energy consumption.
Kikkoman Foods, Inc.Kikkoman Foods, Inc.
• Recognized for being a sustainability leader in the Sacramento Region. • All regional offices in Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado counties certified sustainable.
Roseville El Dorado Hills Elk Grove Sacramento Rocklin
• Encouraging & assisting customers and clients to become certified.
Radisson Hotel Radisson Hotel SacramentoSacramento
• First hotel in the region to earn sustainable certification in all five media areas!
• Installed Ozone oxidation system on washing machines, producing significant reductions in water use and sewer discharges, by allowing elimination of one rinse cycle. • Provides lockers and showers for employees who walk or bicycle to work. • Discontinued use of styrofoam products in restaurant.
• Installed advanced thermostat controls to set guest rooms to default temperature when unoccupied. • Installed low-flow toilets and urinals throughout the facility. • Maintains spring-fed lake in center of 18 acre complex with large grassy area that provides habitat for beneficial birds and insects.
SRWTP Biogas SRWTP Biogas Enhancement Pilot Enhancement Pilot
Project Project
• Pilot Project evaluated the feasibility of injecting waste materials, such as fats, oils, grease, and food processing waste, into anaerobic digesters to enhance the production of biogas (methane gas) at the SRCSD’s Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. • Increased biogas used to enhance onsite renewable energy co-generation.
SRWTP Biogas Enhancement Pilot ProjectSRWTP Biogas Enhancement Pilot Project
Project Findings • Potential to increase the production of biogas, from 1,400 standard cubic feet per minute up to 2,200 – enough energy power approximately 1,000 to 3,000 area homes. • Improve the handling, processing, and disposal of waste materials. • Reduce the amount of waste materials that enter the sewer collection system, which could cause sewer blockages or overflows.
Team Members SRCSD SMUD Brown & Caldwell Sacramento Rendering Company Dr Pepper Snapple Group The Pepsi Bottling Group
Caltrans Division of Rail Caltrans Division of Rail ““Amtrak CaliforniaAmtrak California””
(Capital Corridor Commuter Rail) (Capital Corridor Commuter Rail) Locomotive Emission Upgrade ProjectLocomotive Emission Upgrade Project
• Capital Corridor route covers over 400 miles from Sacramento to the Bay area. • Upgraded emissions of fifteen 3,200-horse- power locomotives. • Reduced smog forming NOx emissions by 42% and toxic particulate emissions by 45%. • Air quality benefits for both Sacramento Metropolitan and Bay Area air districts.
Locomotive Emission Upgrade ProjectLocomotive Emission Upgrade Project
Capitol Corridor Partners California DOT, Division of Rail Amtrak (National Rail Passenger Corp.) Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority California Air Resources Board Sacramento Metropolitan AQMD Bay Area AQMD Electro Motive Diesel, Inc. U. S. EPA, Region 9
Locomotive Emission Upgrade ProjectLocomotive Emission Upgrade Project
SMAQMD E85 ProgramSMAQMD E85 Program
• E85 is an alcohol fuel mixture of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, by volume. • Worked with 7 different fuel providers to implement E85 ethanol fuel at 23 retail sites and 4 card lock sites. • Worked with SMUD and City of Sacramento to implement E85 at their municipal pumps. • Highest concentration of alternative fuel ethanol sites in California.
The 7 Providers and SMAQMD designed a postcard to notify consumers of E85 locations.
AWARD WINNERAWARD WINNER SMAQMD E85 ProgramSMAQMD E85 Program
SMAQMD DMC Scotties Gas Station Interstate Oil Company Flyers (Nella Oil) Pearson Fuels Propel Green Wave Fuel City of Sacramento, Dept. of General Services SMUD
WORKSHOPSWORKSHOPS
10:30 am—11:30 am New Air Quality Regulations for Auto Body & Refinishing Shops (White Rock Room, presented by the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District)
AB 32 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Update (2nd Floor, Lighting Classroom, presented by the California Air Resources Board)
11:30 am—12:30 pm Sustainability Solutions for Commercial Building Owners (White Rock Room, presented by The Green Cabinet)
Overview of California’s Climate Protection Program (2nd Floor, Lighting Classroom, presented by the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District)

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