San Joaquin Valley Partnership Program November 2012 Focus: San Joaquin Valley kWh and peak kW reductions This Month’s Major Accomplishments: The 2nd annual VIEW the Success! Luncheon was held on November 1, 2012 in Visalia. More than 30 energy champion partners, local elected officials, utility partners, and implementing partner were all in attendance to celebrate partnership successes and to briefly discuss the upcoming 2013-14 program cycle. The implementing partner submitted Energy Action Plans for the six participating jurisdictions. The implementing partner attended the 2012 Community Energy Champions Program Summit hosted by the Silicon Valley Energy Watch to learn about the innovative ways in which awardwinning community based organizations and commercial businesses are catalyzing energy savings in their communities. The implementing partner attended the City of Woodlake Waste Water Treatment Plant grand opening to support the city’s project success and energy savings. The implementing partner coordinated an LED holiday light display for one city block of Downtown Hanford with signage to discuss the benefits of LEDs. Key Issues or Emerging Concerns: The Partnership is focused on completing 2012 with strong savings in electric, and holding out hope for a last minute gas savings project too! While the 2010-12 program cycle enters a ramp down phase, focus will turn to making sure partners and plans are in place to hit the ground running in 2013 when the new cycle begins. With the release of the SCE Q3 ELP reports it was determined that the County of Kings and City of Woodlake could easily move to Silver status and the City of Tulare to Gold by the end of 2012. The implementing partner will work with SCE to make sure every effort is made to reach these new levels. The Partnership had coordinated with Howard Choy from LA County to attend the December 20 th meeting to present on the LA County REN and how that could serve our local governments in the region. Unfortunately, Mr. Choy had to cancel. The Partnership will work with the IOUs to make sure that the information is distributed to the local government partners. Upcoming Milestones Jeremy Battis, ED, CPUC will be meeting with the local government partners and the implementing partner on Friday, December 7th in Visalia. The event was arranged between Mr. Battis and Kim Loeb at the City of Visalia. ‘Energy/Demand Side Management 101’ presentations are scheduled for the City of Woodlake, City of Hanford, and County of Kings for December 10, 2012. The next monthly Partnership meeting will be December 20, 2012.
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