Energy & Sustainability

Program UpdatesClimate Change Task Force

February 16, 2017

Environmental Planning and Community Resilience Division

PACE

First Quarterly Report

3,780 Applications Submitted

23% Approval Rate

805 Projects Completed

76% Hurricane Protection

22% Energy Efficiency

2% Renewable Energy

1,326,668 kWh energy savings

932 metric tons of CO2 (100 homes annually)

New Be PACE Smart communications

Seal of Sustainability

Port Everglades Upland Mangrove

Enhancement Project – 12/20

Tide Gauge Data

Recorded high tide events and Hurricane Matthew

Observed greater tidal range at Port compared to Pompano

USACE modeling to begin in Spring 2017

Agencies already using data live!

King Tides (~1.5 ft higher)

Student Adaptation

Collaboration with

students

MIT

Virtual reality-

rendering of sea level

rise impacts

Penn Design Studio

Urban redesign

NACO Energy Efficiency Webinar

Broward Community Energy Strategic Plan

Sonoma County Energy Independence Program

Financed by County and through PACE

County rebates on electric cars to disadvantages

communities

Charger network and free charging (3 yrs)

18,000 MkW of solar investment by County through

collaborative procurement

1,400 jobs, #1 green fleet, electric garbage trucks

Community Choice Aggregation law

Sonoma purchases clean power and supplies

Regional utility maintains poles and billing

Florida Sustainability Directors

Network

Annual meeting in Orlando

Best Practices Sharing and Networking

Opportunity

Transportation – EV (Drive Electric Orlando)

& Carpool Incentives

Sustainability Engagement

Breakout Discussions

USDN Peer Learning

Exchange

Sustainable Hospitality - City of

Tallahassee/ City of Orlando/ City

of Savannah/ Broward County/

Leon County/Sarasota County/

Volusia County

Leon County Growing Green

Sustainable Communities Summit

Crystal Ball Report

Action Items

Photos from Growing Green Sustainable

Communities Summit

Photo of Cascades Park, Tallahassee

B2B Climate Conference

TD Bank

Zero Energy Store in Cypress Creek

Bright Power

8 yr ROI on LEED Buildings

Affordable housing with Enterprise

Green Community Standards

Citigroup

Equator Principles mandate

Mitigate social/ environmental risk

Corporate Sustainability Network – launch

event (SSB/CSN)

More than 60 Participants

Local and National businesses

Community leaders and high

ranking city staff

State agency support

Shared case studies, challenges,

and ideas for collaboration

Photos From SSB/CSN Workshop

Upcoming Events

Water Matters Day,

March 11, TreeTops

Park, Davie

Go Solar Day,

March 30,

Volunteer Park,

Plantation

Earth Day, April 19,

Broward County

Government

Center