GREEN TEAM MEETING 3: Energy Efficient Infrastructure September 18, 2008
AGENDA Follow-up from previous meeting: Streets Review LEED ND credits dealing with Sustainable Infrastructure:
Street
lights Alternative energy Solid waste management
Design Guidelines follow-up Master plan approval schedule Green Team innovation credit?
LEED ND PILOT NEIGHBORHOODS
UPPER CHESTER FLATS EAST BANK
EUCLID CORRIDOR
ST. LUKE’S POINT
STREET LIGHTS GCT Credit 15: Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Intent: Reduce air, water and land pollution from energy consumption Requirements: Design or purchase any traffic lights, street lights, water and wastewater pumps, and treatment systems that are included as part of the project to achieve a 15% annual energy reduction beyond an estimated baseline energy use for this infrastructure. If any traffic lights are installed as part of the project, use LED technology.
St. Paul, Minn. LED pilot installation
STREET LIGHTS: LED Ann Arbor, Mich. •Successful pilot completed: LED replacement for downtown “globe” lights (a retrofit of existing fixtures) •City now has $630,000 grant to fund retrofits for over 1,000 downtown lights. •Initial installation will save City over $100,000 per year, reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions by 267 tonnes CO2e •Goal: Replace all public lighting in City with LEDs
Ann Arbor, Mich. LED in foreground
STREET LIGHTS: LED Cities piloting or using LEDs for street lighting include: Ann Arbor, Michigan Anchorage, Alaska Raleigh, North Carolina Austin, Texas Toronto, Ontario New York, New York
Lumec ‘Ancestra’ LED lights
STREET LIGHTS: SOLAR
STREET LIGHTS: SOLAR
“Street trees,” Vienna, Austria
STREET LIGHTS: METAL HALIDE “The most energy-efficient and highest quality option of standard street lights (in terms of light control, distribution and color rendition) is the Metal Halide Cutoff. Pulse-start metal halide lamps provide even greater energy-efficiency compared to standard metal halide.” -- New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
LIGHT POLLUTION GCT Credit 20: Light Pollution Reduction Intent: Minimize light trespass from site, reduce sky-glow to increase night sky access, improve nighttime visibility through glare reduction, and reduce development impact on nocturnal environments. Requirements: For exterior lighting in shared portions of the project, only light areas as required for safety and comfort. Do not exceed 80% of the lighting power densities for exterior areas and 50% for building facades and landscape features as defined in ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Exterior Lighting Section, without addenda.
LIGHT POLLUTION Detrimental effects of light pollution: •Wastes resources •Higher energy costs •Pollution from burning of fossil fuels •Harms nocturnal wildlife
Full cut-off fixture
Effects of light pollution
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GCT Credit 12: On-Site Energy Generation Intent: Reduce air, water and land pollution from energy consumption and production by increasing the efficiency of the power delivery system. Increase the reliability of power. Requirements: Option 1 – Develop on-site energy generation system(s) with peak electrical generating capacity of at least 5% of the project’s specified electrical service load. Option 2 – Develop on-site energy generation system(s) with capacity of at least 5% of the project’s annual electrical and thermal energy consumption, as established through an accepted building energy performance simulation tool.
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GCT Credit 13: On-Site Renewable Energy Sources Intent: Encourage on-site renewable energy self-supply in order to reduce environmental and economic impacts associated with fossil fuel energy use. Requirements: Option 1 – Design and incorporate the use of shared on-site nonpolluting renewable energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, small scale/micro hydroelectric, and biomass with peak electrical generating capacity of at least 5% of the project’s specified electrical service load. Option 2 - Design and incorporate the use of shared on-site nonpolluting renewable energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, small scale/micro hydroelectric, and biomass with peak electrical generating capacity of at least 5% of the project’s annual electrical and thermal energy consumption, as established through an accepted building energy performance simulation tool.
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: SOLAR
Solar America Initiative:
•$200,000 federal funding for creating solar infrastructure plus technical assistance •25 Solar America cities, including Ann Arbor and Pittsburgh Solar “shingles”
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: SOLAR
Panels on a transit station
Solar lily pads, Glasgow, Scotland
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: WIND
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: WIND San Francisco has Residential Wind Power Work Group to explore feasibility of small-scale wind power generation throughout the city. They are reworking zoning to allow small wind turbines on 35-foot poles within urban neighborhoods
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: NET METERING
GEOTHERMAL
Rabtherm pipes
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT GCT Credit 19:
Comprehensive Waste Management
Intent: Reduce the waste hauled to and disposed of in landfills. Promote proper disposal of office and household hazardous waste streams. Requirements: Meet at least two of the following three requirements and publicize the availability and benefits of the drop-off point(s), station(s), or services: 1 – Include at least one drop-off point as part of the project available to all project occupants for office or household potentially hazardous wastes such as paints, solvents, oil, batteries; OR locate the project in a local government jurisdiction that provides services for collecting these materials. If a plan for post-collection disposal or use does not exist, establish one. 2 – Include at least one recycling or reuse station as part of the project available to all project occupants dedicated to the separation, collection, and storage of materials for recycling including, at a minimum, paper, corrugated cardboard, glass, plastics and metals; OR locate the project in a local government jurisdiction that provides recycling services for these materials. If a plan for post-collection use does not exist, establish one. 3 – Include at least one compost station as part of the project available to all project occupants dedicated to the collection and composting of food wastes; OR locate project in a local government jurisdiction that provides services for composting materials. If a plan for post-collection use does not exist, establish one.
SOLID WASTE: RECYCLING
SOLID WASTE: COMPOST
SOLID WASTE: COMPOST Pilot Programs In Seattle, the Food Waste for Apartments and Condominiums Test Project is now in the second phase of the trial with 35 additional complexes. Buildings are provided with two large compost bins, smaller bins for individual units. Minneapolis is providing compost bins for residents in the 900home Linden Hills neighborhood. City is interest because garbage is more expensive to get rid of than organic materials.
AGENDA Design Guidelines follow-up Master plan approval schedule Green Team innovation credit?
QUESTIONS/FEEDBACK