Regional Energy

The County of Santa Clara, its cities, and local businesses are looking at a regional energy framework "balancing new power generation with greater energy conservation and rate stabilization reductions." Two resulting Energy Summits have been held to discuss options and opportunities.

Bay Area counties and cities have adopted conservation targets ranging from five to ten percent reduction and implemented a variety of methods for meeting those goals. Solutions include changing hours of operations to avoid peak hours, closing office buildings one day a week, devloping public outreach campaigns, conducting system retrofits, and developing operational standards for all public buildings, just to name a few.