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Adopt a Resolution Authorizing City Manager to Execute Three-Year Professional Services Agreement with Efficiency Services Group, LLC, of Hillsboro, Oregon to Administer Keep Your Cool Commercial Refrigeration Program ($300,000) (EU)
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MEETING DATE:
June 5, 2024
PREPARED BY:
Astrida Trupovnieks, Key Accounts and Customer Programs Specialist
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Adopt a Resolution Authorizing City Manager to Execute Three-Year Professional Services Agreement with Efficiency Services Group, LLC, of Hillsboro, Oregon to Administer Keep Your Cool Commercial Refrigeration Program ($300,000).
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Lodi Electric Utility ("LEU") seeks to expand its Keep Your Cool Commercial Refrigeration Program ("KYC Program") to its commercial customers by implementing a turnkey direct install program of refrigeration equipment upgrades.
Since 2020, the KYC Program has been offered to Lodi businesses at no charge and is administered by ESG, the City's trusted energy efficiency advisor, with actual work completed by ESG's subcontractor Redwood Energy Services. LEU budgets approximately $50,000 each year to support this program. Since implementation of the program, approximately 60 businesses have been assisted, saving an estimated 520,000 kilowatt-hours of energy.
LEU is seeking to expand this program over a period of three years and increase the available funding offered to customers from $50,000 to $100,000 annually through ESG and Redwood Energy Services, who will continue to develop program materials, identify and schedule customers, purchase equipment upgrades, provide quality assurance and estimate energy savings for regulatory purposes. Two large Lodi grocers have contacted ESG, and are anticipated to be the program's first customers in early Fiscal Year 2025. This program is one of many programs implemented by LEU to help meet energy efficiency targets established every 10 years in accordance w...
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