Energy and Air Quality

1
Energy and Air Quality

• Existing and New
• Air Programs

2
Background

• Severe Non-attainment for Ozone (1-hour rule
  0.12 ppm)
• Will be in non-attainment for Ozone (8-hour rule
  0.08 ppm)
• Will be in non-attainment for PM2.5 rule (18.1
  g/m3)

3
First Steps

• Needed to find out where we were
• Emission Rule Now Model
• ozone 8 0.12 0.134 attain-2
• ozone 1 0.08 0.10 NA
• PM2.5 15 18.1 NA

4
Data RFP

• First Collect data on 6-county region -- how
  much there is and what we need to cut
• Second Model national and state program effects
• Third Suggest programs to get us rest of the
  way

5
But, in meantime...

• we know there are some very good programs we can
  do that have very good results (low hanging
  fruit)
• we arent waiting for final results from the RFP
  study

6
Programs Up and Running

• Alternative fuel infrastructure
• 25 stations in 6 county region
• Alternative fuel fleets
• Lawnmower buyback
• since 2000,
• 872 lawnmowers
• 1,243 gas cans
• 8.3 tons of VOC

7
Synergy with Energy

• Boiler Tune-ups
• 20 natural gas savings
• Industrial Rebuild
• __ kWh, __ NOx
• Industrial distributed generation
• Renewable energy commitments
• 20 commitment, 66 tons NOx

8
New Programs Starting

• Solar Thermal
• Roofing Ordinance
• Diesel retrofits
• 1,000 to 5,000 per vehicle 50 - 95 reduced
• Locomotive idling
• Anti-idling ordinance
• Leafblower buyback

9
Future Programs

• Will be informed by RFP Study
• Will target specific sources that are not already
  targeted by national and state programs
• Will take advantage of national and state
  programs (piggyback)

10
Clean Air Counts

• Taking it to the Region