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State Land Use Energy and Cliamte Policy
Efficiency
Transmission
7-10 to plan, permit, and construct bulk transmission projects in California
Efficiency First
Strategic Renewables Second
Climate and Energy goals not met without efficiency and land use changes
Panama Bartholomy
916-654-4896
pbarthol@energy.ca.gov
Recommended Reduction Measures Reductions Counted Towards 2020 Target
Renewables
Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)
Utilities must procure 20% of their electricity from renewable resources no later than 2010.
State adopted goal of 33% by 2020
Existing Buildings Goals
Home Energy Usage by Vintage
AB 758: The Day it All Changed
The Loading Order
Zero Net-energy New Buildings
- All homes built after 2020 will produce as much energy as they consume
- All commercial buildings built after 2030 will produce as much energy as they consume
Existing Buildings
Building GHG Emissions Sources
75% of CA’s residential buildings and 5.25 billion square feet of commercial buildings were built before 1978’s energy efficiency standards
CA Context
Transportation
Water
20% Urban Water Use Reduction by 2020
Reduces per capita consumption from approximately 192 to 154 Gallons per Day
- California Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Standards
- Energy Efficiency
- Renewables Portfolio Standard (33% by 2020)
- Low Carbon Fuel Standard
- Regional Transportation-Related GHG Targets
- Goods Movement
- Recycling and Waste (landfill methane capture)
SB 375
- Regions will plan for transportation and housing needs and financing together
- The combined transportation and housing plans will meet GHG targets to be set by ARB by September 2010
- Communities will rezone for housing allocations
- Exemplary infill, TOD projects will get some CEQA streamlining
Unintended Consequences
CEQA Guidelines
OPR developed CEQA guidelines for the feasible mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions or the effects of greenhouse gas emissions…
The Resources Agency certified and adopted those guidelines on December 30, 2009.
- Cumulative Impacts
- Tiering and Streamlining the Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan
- Determining Significance
- Thresholds of Significance
- Statement of Overriding Considerations
- Environmental Setting
- Consideration and Discussion of Mitigation Measures
Indirect Source Rule
- Requires developers to reduce emissions from their projects
- Mitigation fee for any emissions over desired baseline paid to air districts
- Fees would help fund projects to reduce emissions in the district
- Already in place in San Joaquin
- and Imperial AQMDs
- Million Solar Roofs
- Medium/Heavy Duty Vehicles
- High Speed Rail
- Industrial Measures
- High Global Warming Potential Gas Measures
- Sustainable Forests
- Oil and Gas Extraction and Transmission
- “Additional Reductions”
Thank You
Panama Bartholomy
(916) 654-4896
pbarthol@energy.ca.gov
Summation
Panama Bartholomy
Advisor to Chairman Karen Douglas
California Energy Commission
Mayor Fulton's Summit
2/26/10
Sacramento, CA
In 2012, it will be four
In 2016, it will be six
Climate Change Scoping Plan:
A Framework for Change