Columbus Energy Challenge USGBC Lunch N Leaders 06-25-15.

Columbus Energy ChallengeUSGBC Lunch N Leaders06-25-15

HISTORY• Mayor Coleman launched

Get Green Columbus in 2005:• issued the first five year

Green Memo, • created the Mayor’s

Office of Environmental Stewardship and

• formed the Green Team

2014 ACEEE City Scorecard Results

Recommendations:1. Focus on large buildings (over 50,000 square feet)2. Start with benchmarking and reporting annual progress3. Set targets (70% of building stock by December 2015 and 20%

energy reduction by 2020)4. Make it easy- data availability, training and access to resources.

Building Benchmarking- You can’t manage what you don’t measure

Columbus Energy Challenge launched June ‘14

Results to Date

• 80 buildings totaling 15,000,000 square feet• average 25% electricity reduction since baseline. • average Energy Star Score is 68.

Commercial Energy Efficiency Incentives• Columbus Region Energy Fund and PACE (http://

columbusfinance.org/energy_fund.aspx)• Utility Incentives• AEP Ohio (www.AEPOhio.com/Solutions) • Columbia Gas (https://

www.columbiagasohio.com/ies )• Green Columbus Fund

AEP OhioContact Angie Rybalt at 614-359-6276 or [email protected]

Columbia Gas of OhioContact [email protected] or at 855-211-4968

Columbus Region Energy Loan Fund

• Commercial, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, educational, nonprofits

• $100K-$5million• Energy efficiency improvements (lighting, energy

management systems and controls, HVAC, other) and Energy projects (waste energy recovery, fuel cells, renewables, other)

Columbus Region Energy Loan Fund

• Use Energy SID (like PACE) through Energy Fund

• Interested.. Contact Jean Carter Ryan at [email protected]

Erin Miller, Environmental Steward90 W. Broad StreetColumbus, Ohio [email protected]