BOLD MOVES TOWARDS A LOW CARBON CITY

November 2009

Presentation by Romel Pascual,

Acting Deputy Mayor, Energy & Environment

City of Los Angeles

The City of Los Angeles –

Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa

Los AngelesThe footprint of the City of Los Angeles can accommodate 7 major American cities and Manhattan Island

The city= 470 square miles or 1217.3 square kilometers

Home to more than 4 million people

The City’s carbon emissions – 54 million

metric tons

WE ARE A CITY KNOWN FOR Traffic & Sprawl

LA’S EMISSIONS PROFILE

One-third of citywide emissions stem from municipal government activities.

By 2004, we saw a 4.6% reduction from 1990 levels.

As of October 2008, we are 7% below 1990 levels

OUR COMMITMENT TO GREENING L.A. IS BOLD

Our fight against global warming frames our work

Released May 2007 Goal: 35% below 1990

GHG emission levels by 2030.

Contains over 50 actions we all have to do.

THE MAYOR’S GREENLA PLAN – Climate Action Plan

Owning and Operating Assets

Los Angeles World Airports

Port of Los Angeles

Department of Water and Power

Renewable Energy

LA’s renewable portfolio increased from 3% in 2005 to over 14% in renewable energy capacity today.

2009: SolarLA Plan – 1280 Megawatt Solar Plan for Los Angeles

2009: LARGEST municipally owned and operated Wind Farm 120MW in the country (Pine Tree), and more projects to come on line by December (Millford)

2007: the City broke ground on the Terminal Island Renewable Energy Project – Biomass project

Mayor’s Goal:

20% Renewable Energy by 2010

40% Renewable Energy by 2020

COAL- FREE by 2020

GREENING THE PORTS

Green Building

• All new city public buildings over 7,500 sq. feet must achieve LEED certification

• 51 LEED certified public buildings constructed or being designed and built in LA

• First LEED platinum and gold public libraries in the U.S.

• Convention Center is a LEED EB

First mandatory private sector green building law for any city over 1 million people

Requires all private buildings over 50,000 square feet and/or 50 units to meet a “standard of sustainability” similar to the LEED standards

Green Building program offers both commercial and residential green building incentives

Transportation

Largest alt fuel refuse collection fleet in the country

100% of all DASH buses are alt-fuel

99% of MTA buses are CNG

ATSAC implemented at 3,300 of 4,300 City of Los Angeles signalized intersections

Full Implementation will reduce almost 1 Million Metric Tons of CO2

Building a Green Economy Good policies: Policies whose primary goal is environmental, but that can be leveraged to

help build the green economy.

Selective investment: Investment in local clean technology firms that help the city develop needed

environmental solutions.

Acting as a “platform” or testing for new technologies: The city is a powerful partner for testing new technologies at scale—a key

part of the development process.

Purchasing, procurement & incentives: Leveraging the City’s purchasing power to create local green jobs and

industry.

Creative land use: Repositioning industrial land for the jobs of the future.

Partnerships and Promotion/advocacy of the LA region:

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THE LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH CORRIDOR

•Home to SCI-Arc and people in the creative industries•Converted lofts could provide housing stock for cleantech sector

Live-Work Arts District

Cornfields-Arroyo Seco Plan•Innovative specific plan•Community will be to LEED Neighborhood Development (ND) •Will support cleantech and R&D uses

Clean Tech Manufacturing Center•20.6 acre site•CRA/LA-owned•Develop into a cleantech site with anchor tenant, ancillary uses, and incubator or training facility

DWP Clean Technology Research Center•6 acre site•DWP will build “green” building with lab and office space•Focus on research and development of cutting-edge alternative energy technologies

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Innovation LA: A harbor cluster built around maritime transportation-related Cleantech

Funded 1st Hybrid Assist Tug

Funded 1st REGEN Flywheel for Rubber Tired Gantry Cranes

Funded 1st Electric Drayage Truck

Next: Evaluating market-ready zero emissions conveyance systems. Ready to invest $1M

Leverages billions in spending on Port’s ambitious environmental initiatives

Leverages $15M TAP Investment Fund

Partner with regulatory agencies and other investors

Port co-invests in promising technologies, helps with testing, potentially first customer

Manufacturing space provided for selected firms

Stimulate job growth in the local economy

SOLAR LA: AS A CATALYST FOR GREEN JOBS AND BUSINESSES

SOLAR COMPANIES• Attract and grow solar R&D, manufacturing, distribution, and construction companies • Leverage federal, state, local and financial incentives packages, rebates and subsidies,

promotional power rates, preferences for local firms

SOLAR INOVATION CLUSTER• Become the most aggressive and progressive solar city in America• Develop partnerships with LADWP and local research universities, laboratories and clean

technology firms• Promote R&D, testing and commercialization of innovative technologies, and the

deployment of clean technology solutions

GREEN COLLAR JOBS• LADWP will develop partnerships with local schools and innovative organizations including

community colleges, IBEW, and local vocational schools and programs to provide assistance and technical support for standardized curricula, instructor training, and link graduates from these programs to employers developing solar projects in L.A.

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LED STREET LIGHT PROGRAM

140,000 Street Lights$57 Million Project

Pays Back in 7 years

$10 Million in Energy Savings Per Year

40,500 MT of CO2 Reduced