Livable Delaware

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Livable Delaware

• Energy Task Force - the Key to Energy and
  Environmental Co-Benefits

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Livable Delaware 1st Year

• Directing Growth
• Comprehensive Planning
• Brownfields
• Open Space
• State Agencies Policy Alignment

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1st Year Co-benefits

• Directing Growth
• Fewer VMT Reduced emissions
• Community Design
• Reduced impermeable surfaces improved
  water quality
• Open Space
• Provides carbon absorption

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Governors Energy Task Force

• 17 Members
• 4 Goals
• The expansion of the diversity of fuels used to
  meet Delaware's current and future energy needs.
• The development of conservation programs to
  reduce the need to build more electricity
  generation facilities.
• Ensuring that energy infrastructure will meet
  Delaware's future needs for efficiently
  transporting energy resources.
• Encouraging producers of clean energy
  technologies and producers of energy efficient
  products to locate their business operations in
  Delaware.

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Governors Energy Task Force

• 6 Working Groups
• More than 200 participants
• Environmentalists, local governments,
  researchers, industry, agricultural community,
  builders, architects, federal government,state
  government, financial institutions.
• 1 year
• Meetings, meetings more meetings!

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Governors Energy Task Force

• Requirements for Recommendations
• Projected costs
• Potential benefits
• Prioritized

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Energy Plan Strategies

• 1 - Reduce environmental and economic costs of
  energy consumption through improvements in
  end-use efficiency and conservation.
• 2 Reduce the environmental impacts of
  electricity generation by encouraging clean and
  renewable energy generation
• 3 Reduce the economic impacts of transmission
  congestion
• 4 Promote clean distributed generation

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Energy Plan Strategies contd

• 5 Enhance availability of natural gas
• 6 Promote alternative transportation fuels
• 7 Promote economic development by encouraging
  advanced energy technology development
• 8 Implement energy efficiency, conservation and
  renewable energy in State government
• 9 Continue the planning effort to ensure
  long-term goals are met

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High Priority Recommendations

• 55 High Priority Recommendations
• 42 clearly have GHG and air quality co-benefits
• reduced emissions through efficiency or
• change in energy source
• 2 have indirect benefits

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Recommendation Tracking
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Recommendation Examples

• Develop an aggressive consumer education program
  to promote Energy Star appliances equipment to
  builders and consumers in the Residential and
  Commercial sectors.
• Recognize outstanding energy-efficient design
  construction with a Governors Award

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Recommendation Examples contd

• Develop a Green Pricing Program for electricity
• Work with the utilities to develop rates that
  encourage clean distributed generation
• Mandate that all diesel fuel sold in Delaware be
  at least 2 biodiesel

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Recommendation Examples contd

• Provide training education on the availability
  use of alternative transportation fuels
• Develop a Clean Energy Research Institute
• Require consideration of energy efficiency in
  state purchasing decisions

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Energy Task Force Report Available on the Web

• Executive Summary www.state.de.us/governor/publi
  cations/EnergyBrochure.pdf
• Full Report
• www.state.de.us/governor/publications/TaskFo
  rceReportFinal09-30-03.pdf