Community Outreach

× Outreach Plans Significant outreach will be required to city elected officials and staff, developers, design firms, community members, and other interested stakeholders. A number of resources will be developed to support the policy goals. To date, Redwood Energy has...

Design Zero Carbon Standards

× The City of Vancouver has a carbon standard for buildings that will effectively require all electric buildings by 2025. Menlo Park adopted new green building standards for the Bayfront area as part of a General Plan Update in 2016. These standards were the first...

Adopt “Reach” Energy Codes

× Several years ago Palo Alto and Marin adopted “reach” codes that went beyond the state energy code to incentivize new buildings that used electric space and water heating instead of gas. Now many Bay Area cities are working together to advance this policy for the...

Background

× Background Natural gas, a fossil fuel, is California’s second largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions behind transportation, contributing roughly one third or more of total GHG emissions. Community choice energy agencies have begun delivering carbon free...