Glumac is supporting the City of San Luis Obispo with developing a Carbon Neutral Facilities Plan in support of the City’s Climate Action Plan. It will provide the City with a decarbonization framework to eliminate Scope 1 and 2 emissions and have carbon neutral city operations by 2030. Glumac’s strategic plan will prioritize and identify near term funding efforts for the 2023-25 financial plan, create policy, and develop a long-term strategy through 2030. The scope of the project includes the following:

• Building Decarbonization: Energy audits and building electrification studies at all 30+ city facilities. Glumac is identifying carbon reduction opportunities; providing energy and financial modeling; and developing a custom scenario analysis planning tool that will be turned over to the City.
• Solar PV: A portfolio solar PV study to assess rooftop and carport solar opportunity at municipal facilities. Glumac is working with the City to establish a solar development and procurement strategy.
• Clean Energy Microgrids: A microgrid feasibility study at the City’s main fire station and emergency call center to maintain operations during an outage. This will include a microgrid control systems that integrates solar PV, battery energy storage, and the existing backup generator.
• Fleet Electrification: Fleet electrification plan to transition to all-electric. This will include developing an electric vehicle transition roadmap, a charging needs assessment, and a long term infrastructure plan. Glumac is providing preliminary engineering to support immediate changing infrastructure implementation.

Size: 30 buildings
Start/End Date: 2022 – Ongoing
Owner: City of San Luis Obispo
Services: Energy Analysis

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