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From: Mary Tiger [ma i Ito: mtiger @owasa.org] <br />Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 12:21 PM <br />To: Terri Buckner; Pat Davis; Brennan Bouma; gary.saunders @ncdenr.gov; <br />Subject: Brief Summary and Next Steps from Last Night's Energy Collaboration Meeting <br />Thanks to those who were able to attend the Inter -local Energy Collaboration Working Group meeting at <br />OWASA last night. By way of this email, I wanted to provide the entire group with a brief summary of <br />and next steps identified in last night's discussion. For those in attendance, please feel free to contribute <br />if I missed or mis- represented anything. <br />After briefly reviewing the proposed projects and programs and criteria used to prioritize these projects, <br />we looked at the top projects based on the group's assessment of their potential to achieve each of the <br />four criteria. I have attached a slide deck that summarizes the responses. Slide 5 really served as a <br />springboard for our discussion of what projects were a priority for the group and next steps needed to <br />move the effort forward. (We did not review slides 6 -15, but they are provided here for the group for to <br />view. I've also added a slide to describe how the ranking was done. This was spoken last night.) Please <br />note that these slides and summary are intended only for the purposes of the group. <br />In summary, we identified five initiatives that hold promise for collaborative efforts among the group. <br />• Biogas to energy at OWASA wastewater treatment plant <br />Champions: Brad Ives (UNC) and Pat Davis /Mary Tiger ( OWASA) <br />Next steps: UNC and OWASA to meet to discuss details around collaborative opportunities <br />• Technical evaluation of solar PV opportunities at public facilities /land tracts <br />Champion: Jesse Freedman, Town of Chapel Hill <br />Next steps: Identify information needed from each agency on sites with potential for PV <br />• Street lighting coordination (particularly of lighting under direct control of agencies) <br />Champion: Gaylan Bishop, UNC <br />Next steps: Investigate if UNC staff can conduct assessment of potential for LED lights on agency <br />property; send invitation to the group to attend a UNC lighting tour <br />• Fleet management efficiencies <br />Champion: Brennan Bouma, Orange County <br />Next steps: Identify information that is needed to build a baseline to assess opportunities to <br />collaborate on increasing fleet efficiency (potential source: Triangle Clean Cities and NC Clean <br />Energy Technology Center) <br />• Joint energy and carbon tracking and reporting <br />Champion: Elizabeth Zander, Chapel Hill Environmental Stewardship Board <br />Next steps: Identify information that is needed (and in what form) for inter -local comparisons <br />using standards used by the state and others; review existing energy data management and <br />reporting approaches used by towns, county, OWASA, school system, and UNC <br />Each of the champions identified will take the lead in coordinating the next steps. Additionally, I will <br />work on summarizing the short -term, intermediate, and long -term objectives of each of the projects, <br />and Terri Buckner will also look at the social cost of carbon. <br />Please hold Wednesday October 28th from 5:30 -7pm in the OWASA Board Room for the next meeting. <br />We will circulate a Doodle Poll soon to identify another date in early December to meet. <br />Best regards, <br />Mary Tiger <br />Sustainability Manager <br />Orange Water and Sewer Authority <br />919 - 537 -4241 (office) <br />rrn1::ier °�uwasa.ur° <br />