Source 100% of electricity sold in Los Angeles County from renewable sources, with an interim goal of 50% by 2025

• Action 1

  Expand the local feed-in tariff program (e.g. offering additional capacity and opening the program to larger projects).

• Action 2

  Simplify state and municipal Net Energy Metering requirements to identify areas of improvement to encourage greater customer participation.

• Action 3

  Promote the implementation of asset-owning Community Choice Aggregation in investor-owned utility territories and explore other alternative utility models.

• Action 4

  Identify opportunities for community solar projects and support the implementation of such projects in both the Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and Southern California Edison (SCE) areas of Los Angeles.

• Action 5

  Identify barriers to increasing solar generation in disadvantaged communities and develop programs to overcome them.

• Action 6

  Assess grid modernization needs based on more renewable and distributed technologies, and develop equitable financing and funding programs.

Increase the percentage of energy derived from distributed energy to 33% of the total renewable mix

• Action 1

  Expand the SCPPA utilities’ feed-in tariff program to allow larger and more sources to participate.

• Action 2

  Create permitting and other financial incentives (such as strong net metering programs) to develop more locally generated renewable energy.

• Action 3

  Ensure that storage resources are created to reduce dependence on natural gas peaker power plants.

Increase percentage of renewable natural gas

• Action 1

  Identify opportunities to produce agricultural and biological waste-capture and renewable natural gas in Los Angeles, and develop and support incentive programs to implement such projects, based on adequate cost-effectiveness and emissions performance, among other metrics.

Focus on data-driven decision making

• Action 1

  Support energy performance disclosure and data management. Accurate energy performance data must be collected, organized, analyzed, integrated, and made appropriately available to market actors and decision makers. Use the date collected to establish baselines.

• Action 2

  Utilize standardized and open source tools for benchmarking, energy assessments and audits, and building retro commissioning in commercial and public buildings, such as ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, the Department of Energy Building Energy Data Exchange Specification, and the Building Energy Asset Score. Support California-specific tools that are compatible with these federal tools and standards.

• Action 3

  Develop a region-wide energy data portal that tracks energy consumption among residential and other users, monitors impacts of implemented policies, and provides decision making support, building on the UCLA Energy Atlas.

• Action 4

  Focus energy retrofits in neighborhoods and building types with the lowest efficiency.

• Action 5

  Develop performance-based policies, programs, and incentives.

• Action 6

  Develop standards for Title 24 permit tracking software in order to organize and standardize the vast amount of data not electronically captured by the majority of land use and retrofit permitting jurisdictions (i.e. local governments).

Improve energy performance of the existing building stock through targeted programs

• Action 1

  Develop and implement solutions to increase compliance with, and enforcement of, California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards for alterations to existing buildings.

• Action 2

  Require energy audits and/or retrofits at time of sale or renovation for commercial and residential properties.

• Action 3

  Establish multi-scaled utility billing tiers to incentivize energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings to the extent permitted by law.

• Action 4

  Establish peer learning and training capacity for building inspectors.

• Action 5

  Develop region-wide incentive and training programs for contractors to improve code compliance.

• Action 6

  Focus energy retrofits in a way that will prioritize and maximize their health benefits.

• Action 7

  Include public health outreach and education, particularly around heat, during the energy audit and retrofit process.

• Action 8

  Develop a cross-jurisdictional campaign to retrofit existing buildings and to leverage resources from multiple partners to build overall capacity in the field.

• Action 9

  Develop collaborative purchasing partnerships among governments to reduce the costs of retrofitting municipal buildings, such as neighborhood-level retrofits through cooperatives or neighborhood councils, via a regionally supported revolving fund.

• Action 10

  Develop Measured Performance Compliance Pathways for the upcoming Building Energy Efficiency Standards rulemaking at the California Energy Commission.

• Action 11

  Develop a standardized approach and tool for collecting and electronically tracking building permits in an analogous way to the oversight of Title 24 compliance through specialized software programs.

• Action 12

  Implement a “square foot tariff” for buildings using over a certain threshold of energy per square foot.

Strengthen energy efficiency for new buildings to ensure building size does not undermine conservation efforts

• Action 1

  Promote adoption of California Green Building (CalGreen) Tier 2 standards or equivalent or better throughout Los Angeles.

• Action 2

  Promote the adoption of “cool roof ordinances” for new buildings across the county, following on the models of Los Angeles and Pasadena.

• Action 3

  Evaluate the potential for net zero energy requirements for new construction and support implementation of such requirements where feasible, at potentially a faster timetable than what the California Energy Commission envisions.

Create a comprehensive regional strategy for targeting energy reliability programs

• Action 1

  Conduct a vulnerability assessment to determine areas and critical facilities at risk of energy disruptions due to climate change-related events (e.g. sea level rise; more frequent and intense storms; more frequent, longer, and intense heat waves; more frequent, longer, and intense droughts, etc.).

• Action 2

  Identify areas or facilities where energy storage, voltage regulations, and microgrids can improve energy management or ensure functionality during climate events, and develop programs and policies to support deployment.

• Action 3

  Conduct energy master planning efforts by local governments in order to make data-driven decisions for optimal investment in energy infrastructure.

Combine transportation electrification and renewable energy planning efforts

• Action 1

  Develop programs to enable solar-powered EV charging in multifamily units.

• Action 2

  Assess whether, how, and to what extent EVs can help provide energy storage to support the electric grid.

Reduce urban heat islands to minimize energy consumption and improve building resilience to extreme heat

• Action 1

  Implement smart or living streets to reduce the urban heat island effect (and which can also help capture stormwater for groundwater recharge).

• Action 2

  Develop new and/or expand existing programs to increase the urban forest or shade structures to reduce the urban heat island effect.

• Action 3

  Implement cool roof and cool surfaces programs across the region, particularly in the most impacted communities, while balancing the potential harmful effects of potentially more daytime heat in the immediate areas from these reflective surfaces.

• Action 4

  Identify priority urban heat island retrofit areas, where the negative impacts are greatest and the potential benefits of cool surfaces are most needed.