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Energy management is a cornerstone of broad decarbonization. It involves actively benchmarking and auditing energy use, reducing energy inefficiencies through energy conservation measures, and transitioning energy sources to renewables. Municipalities that perform sustainable energy management can reap the benefits of decreased energy use, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions.
The following provides tangible actions catalyst communities can take to enable a just transition to decarbonization as it pertains to energy efficiency and renewable energy, and coincides with Michigan Green Communities. Relevant resources, webinars, and community examples accompany each action below.
Identify your municipality’s energy use and track it over time, noting both your achievements and areas for improvement. Municipalities should benchmark and audit their municipal energy use to reduce inefficiencies, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions. Benchmarking allows municipalities to track their buildings energy use and compare them to similar buildings nationwide. To better understand how to improve a building's energy use, municipalities should solicit an energy audit. Energy audits are used to identify and recommend energy conservation measures to reduce the amount of energy input without negatively affecting performance.
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Encourage the deployment of public and private, energy efficiency and renewable energy projects by establishing financing tools that lower the cost burden for implementing projects. This could include a revolving loan fund for local governments and public financing or grant programs for community projects, including Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. In order for programs to benefit the entire community, equitable access is essential.
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Increase the use of renewable energy in your municipal buildings and public spaces. Renewable energy solutions include, but are not limited to, solar photovoltaic, solar hot water systems, community solar, wind, biomass, hydroelectric, and geothermal. Local governments should explore whether, how, and where clean energy fits within their community and lead by example, installing renewable energy on government facilities where appropriate (rooftops, landfills, etc.). Further, municipalities could also make renewable energy accessible to the community by adopting welcoming renewable energy zoning ordinances or creating an expedited permit process for residents and businesses to install renewable energy.
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Reduce energy use intensity for public buildings. Energy efficiency improvements reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, while creating a more sustainable building stock in a community. An energy audit should be used to guide energy efficiency upgrades to ensure strategic investment when possible. Governments should perform energy efficiency upgrades on their own buildings to save public dollars. Additionally, energy efficiency should be prioritized in public housing to help alleviate low-income residents' energy burden.
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Light your community with the most efficient lighting technologies available. Start by inventorying your jurisdiction's owned lighting such as traffic signals, street lights, and parking illumination, then develop and execute a plan to replace fixtures with energy efficient alternatives like LEDs.
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Through increased guidance on energy-related issues, create opportunities for the residential, commercial, and/or industrial sectors to reduce their overall energy use and costs. Governments can provide tailored information and resources to various sectors in the community to encourage them to adopt sustainable energy practices. Governments can even initiate a community energy project, such as a community solar garden, to make renewable energy more accessible to all community members.
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Plan for and implement projects to increase the environmental sustainability and efficiency of your municipal fleet and fleet maintenance program. To do this, local governments need to inventory their fleets and fuel use as well as establish a target and action plan for fleet decarbonization. A decarbonized fleet includes all low- and zero-emissions fuel and vehicle options, not only battery electric vehicles. Other considerations to improve fleet sustainability could include idle-reduction policies and vehicle miles traveled reduction strategies.
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More electric vehicle resources available in the Mobility section under "Clean Motorized Vehicles".
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