16-Deliberate and act on a resolution authorizing the application for Energy Efficiency and Conservation

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Local governments can implement combined heat and power applications which will, over the long term, effect energy efficiency and improve renewabte energy systems. Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source, such as: natural gas, biomass, biogas, coal, waste heat, or oil. CHP provides for the following possible activities: • Onsite generation of electrical and/or mechanical power • Waste-heat recovery for heating, cooling, dehumidification, or process applications • Seamless system integration for a variety of technologies, thermal applications and fuel types into the existing building infrastructure Other possible activities include, but are not limited to: • Optimization, upgrade or replacement of boiler system components or processes to allow for CHP applications; • Optimization, upgrade or replacement of district heating, cooling or energy systems to provide for CHP applications such as with institutions or municipal facilities • Application of CHP to water and wastewater treatment plants For resources related to distributed energy technologies, go to: http://www.eere.energv.Fov/de/ and http://www.epa.gov/chp/basic/index.html Installation of energv-efficient traffic signals and street lighting - Local governments can replace traffic signals and street lighting with energy efficient lighting technologies, including light emitting diodes; and any other technology of equal or greater energy efficiency. Operating 24 hours a day, traffic signals are both a large consumer of energy and a key to public safety. Traditional incandescent bulbs are increasingly being replaced by lamps deploying light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The new LED traffic lights consume only 10% the wattage of their predecessors and last much longer, which lowers the frequency and cost of replacement. Nationwide, more than 30% of traffic lights have been converted to the LED type. Possible Activities: • Installing street tight timers • Installing LED traffic signals • Installing high efficiency low-sodium, conductive or other high efficiency, long-life street lighting Example: A City and County began to replace incandescent bulbs in pedestrian and traffic signals with high efficiency light-emitting diode (LED) lights. The LED signals have a lifetime of 100,000 hours, and consume 14 watts of electricity or less, as compared to the 150 or 69-watt incandescent bulbs they replaced. Also, they are brighter than typical incandescent traffic lights. ~ ~ 6 `t