CEM Work Plan Full View

The purpose of the Climate Action KPI program is to provide annual public reporting on the progress on the City’s target of carbon neutrality by 2050. The CEM will support the Program by tracking and reporting on CEEP related indicators.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Review the KPI program to align with CEEP
• Publication of the Annual KPI Report Card

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Publication of the Annual KPI Report Card
• Develop process to track and report on community and corporate emissions, Support Strata buildings to navigate the process to apply for funding for EV charger installation.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Investigate potential funding mechanisms through LCFS to enable Strata EV charger implementation.
• Investigate opportunities to support Stratas realize revenue through the LCFS

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Develop incentive program, supported through access to revenue through the LCFS to enable stratas install common space EV Chargers., Engage with shared-mobility providers to support enabling EV transitions within their fleet

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Engage with providers
• Engage with City stakeholders to develop a process to enable shared-mobility EV Charging

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Develop incentive program, supported through access to revenue through the LCFS to enable stratas install common space EV Chargers., To support demand management as it relates to fully electric homes and transportation in new construction, review options to support load management on site to reduce overall connected load and support system demand management.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Identify potential technology solutions

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Review potential barriers to implementation in new construction
• Identify necessary actions to support implementation including technological, advocacy and policy related approaches., Review ZCSC allowances for fossil fuels and mechanisms to limit its use

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Investigate and summarize all mechanisms which allow fossil fuel consumption within the ZCSC

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Identify mechanisms within LG authority to incentivize or restrict the use of fossil fuels within ZCSC., • Deliver Builder Breakfast sessions on topics that will support the adopted ESC and ZCSC implementation schedule to reach the highest steps by 2027 in both Part 3 and Part 9 buildings.
• Identify industry training courses and provide incentives to support additional training for local builders.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Deliver 3 Builder Breakfasts
• Provide 10 training subsidies

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Deliver 3 Builder Breakfasts
• Provide 10 training subsidies, Implement Climate Action Decision Making Framework into the City budget process to provide funding for projects that align with Climate Action Plans and deliver a “better than BAU” energy and emission performance.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Council adoption of Decision Making Framework
• Pilot implementation within the 2025 budget process
• Development of a “healthy reserve” policy for the Climate Action Reserve Fund

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Integrate framework into an internal online submission form
• Adjust framework based on the review of year 1 implementation
• Use updated framework in the 2026 budget process, • Attending and participating in Peer Network meetings
• Attending annual CEMx event
• Attending Ideation event and participating in one Ideation project team
• Updating Local Government Climate Action Dashboard as required

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Attend Key Events
• Update Dashboard as required

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Attend Key Events
• Update Dashboard as required, Integration of the Climate Action Team with the New West Electric Utility

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Identify opportunities to expand energy efficiency
• Identify opportunities to expedite electrical service issues in electrification retrofits/EV Charger installations.

Year 2 Deliverables
• Integrate Energy Efficiency and Demand Management messaging into regular ESNW communications and programming.
• Complete guidance documentation related to avoiding service enhancement requests., The intention of this work is to identify MURBs in our city that are particularly vulnerable to climate disruption and extreme weather events that would put at risk the health and safety of the residents.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Initiate vulnerable building registry development in collaboration with the City’s Emergency Management Office.
• Identify and define what characteristics constitute a climate vulnerable MURB

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Complete the development of the climate vulnerable MURB registry
• Define retrofit program measures, Collaborate with ESNW to continue offering programs targeting energy efficiency and conservation in residential and commercial buildings. The program employs a variety of approaches that encourage owners to make improvements to existing and new buildings.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Continue to collaborate with ESNW on program delivery
• Annual reporting on program outcomes

Year 2 Deliverables:
• [Same deliverable for Year 2], Continue to participate in Benchmark BC as a partner in benchmarking civic facilities and supporting commercial buildings in the City by manually pulling and providing electrical utility data for upload into Energy Star Portfolio Manager (not currently automated through the New West Electric Utility billing system:

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Work with the City’s billing and IT departments to create a data request form and a process to pull customer data
• Complete Privacy Assessment Impact to ensure the process is compliant
• Collaborate with BenchmarkBC to support data integration into their platform
• Initiate work program with IT to ensure upcoming AMI software will be able to automatically upload data in 2025

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Collaborate with BenchmarkBC to support data integration into their platform
• Ensure updated AMI software will communicate directly with ESPM in order to expand community benchmarking programs, Develop technical guidance document and a “resource library” to support MURBs through common challenges related to advancing an EV Charger retrofit within a Strata building.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Review preliminary research conducted in 2023 to develop guidance documents for Strata buildings.
• Engage community to identify specific barriers and challenges faced

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Identify opportunities to reduce / eliminate barriers (update city process, engage support from a relevant City department, advocacy to higher levels of government, etc.), Based on the current design guidelines for new non-residential buildings, relating to EV chargers, support Transportation and Planning Division staff as they undertake a review to determine appropriate Zoning Bylaw requirements for EV-Ready parking in new non-residential buildings.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Finalize recommendations which were researched in 2023
• Complete external stakeholder consultation

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Bring forward bylaw for adoption and implementation in 2025., Research and identify options to support private curbside EV charging (i.e. various permutations to support sidewalk cord crossing, electrified curbs, etc.)

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Identify and recommend a viable curbside charging strategy
• Develop program delivery

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Deliver curbside program for private EV Charging, Support the Engineering Department to increase the number of EV chargers and City facilities (e.g. library, community centre)

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Identify priority City facilities here charging stations should be installed for both public and fleet charging
• Support initiation of facility capacity studies

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Complete facility capacity studies (on an ongoing basis)
• Support the installation of new EV chargers, Launch new internal committee focused on implementation of the city’s Corporate Energy and Emissions Reduction Strategy to highlight interdepartmental collaboration required for a number of existing capital projects and internal policies.

Year 1 Deliverables:
• Form committee and develop the Terms of Reference

Year 2 Deliverables:
• Create a workplan in alignment with the approved 2025 capital plan to support delivery, As outlined in a council report on September 11, 2023, in order to aim to achieve the City’s Climate targets, we must accelerate implementation and consequently increase the team staffing. It was proposed to increase by 7 staff members over a 2 year period.

Year 1 Deliverables:
Increase staff contingent by 4 new roles

Year 2 Deliverables:
Increase staff contingent by 3 new roles

KPI Report Card is currently being developed and is expected to be published before the end of the year., This work is pending as recruitment for the Utility Program Specialist is currently underway. An incumbent will be in the role and making progress on work plan items before the end of 2024, Recruitment is underway for a climate action position to support e-mobility related initiatives. The position will be filled and initatives will be underway before the end of 2024.
Update from Transportation: primary liaison with car share providers left the City a year ago, relationship with car share providers has lessened a bit; no recent updates received, but we believe both carshare providers have longterm goals to electrify and they have had very preliminary discussions with us about how the City could facilitate that., Some research on this topic has been advanced, this item is continuing to progress over the next 2 quarters., – research has started; plan to ramp up work on this action in the fall, – one builder breakfast has been delivered on June 27; another is planned for this fall
– no training subsidies have been given out, Adopted for use March 2024. Staff training for implementation within the 2025 budget process is completed and integration is currently on track. A draft heathy reserve policy is being developed by Finance., – Volunteering as RPN co-chair from May 2024 to May 2025
– Attended key events and peer network quarterlies:
May 23 – EMPN and RPN deep dive
June 6 – SCPN deep dive
June 18 – RPN quarterly
June 25/26 – LGCAF
– Participated in CEA ZCSC implementation cohort (started July 31)
– Updated New West CEA dashboard (full review and update completed in August, Some work has advanced, but some delay on EV related items due to timeline of staff recruitment. Work is ongoing in this area, Have identified available data internally. Developing comprehensive scope of work at this time to map out a detailed project plan. Council approval/Direction has been obtained to advance this project, On track with ongoing program delivery and reporting timelines, (Corporate) City has continued participation and completed reporting to Benchmark BC for 2024. AMI mass deployment is underway.

(Community) Sarah met with BBBC to determine what resources exist and best practices for recruiting community buildings; Sarah working with ESNW to determine what Comms materials we need to recruit buildings and draft a recruitment plan for Jan-March, This work is pending as recruitment for the Utility Program Specialist is currently underway. An incumbent will be in the role and making progress on work plan items before the end of 2024, – External stakeholder consultation was completed in July 2024. Draft zoning bylaw amendment and report to council are with internal review team as of Sept 20. Goal is to adopt requirements by end of 2024, Recruitment is underway for a climate action position to support e-mobility related initiatives. The position will be filled and initatives will be underway before the end of 2024., Charging needs for fleet and civic facility locations have been identified through the Green Fleet Action Plan. The Facilities team is currently completing electrical capacity studies on identified facilities prior to EV station installation. Staff are exploring locations for public station expansion, including partnerships with private land owners in underserved areas of New West, TOR draft has been prepared, currently being reviewed, and expected to launch committee before the end of the year., The Climate Action Team is on track with 2024 hiring and will be a 7-person team by the end of 2024