Building Efficiency Advisory Committee Meeting 5: Wrap-up and Report Back August 24th | Virtual Platform Meeting Notes

1. Building Efficiency and Advisory Committee - Meeting 5, wrap up and report back 2. Welcome and Introductions - City Staff: Abbey, MaCie’, Morgan, Mo Abbey, Lindsay, Jessica - ACCC Staff: Tara Brown - Facilitator: Johnson 3. Roll Call and Ice Breaker Activity 4. Agenda - Set the tones, reiterate our objective, and brief introductions - Recap of progress to date - Proposed policy direction - Benefits of proposed policy direction - Legislative process - Ordinance comment period - Implementation period - Q&A session - Next steps & looking ahead 5. Zoom Tutorial - Tutorial on how to use certain Zoom features, including chat function, reactions, and breakout rooms. 6. Our Overall Objective - Objectives for participants: provide your input on policy considerations, help identify barriers, advise on planning, and suggest additional resources. - Ground rules: Chatham and democracy of time. 7. Recap of Progress to Date - Meetings with stakeholders across the community - Gathered feedback to inform policy direction and undertook drafting - Presented our progress to the Administration - ACCC presentation to the Commission on Environmental Sustainability - OOS Open to continue one-one meetings - Met with Jeff Bennet to include in next steps - Benchmarking a piece of council meeting 8. Advisory Committee Meetings Recap 9. Policy Components Considered 10. Policy Direction (building types, sizes, and implementation timeline) - Which building types should apply - Moving forward with everything but industrial manufacturing i. Exemption - Sizes closely linked with implementation timeline i. Review of policy stages - 2021 voluntary for everyone to comply - Phase 2-2023 when municipal buildings will comply - 2024 all buildings 50,000 and transparency 11. Policy Direction (types of data, data verification, and data transparency) - Types of data to collect: electric, gas and water - Will not require 3rd party data verification - City will focus on trainings for owners to ensure data quality - Transparency will include building address and unique building ID 12. Policy Direction (resources and trainings, and compliance) - Trainings on how to comply and exploring partnerships within community to reach all types of buildings - BNS to ensure compliance, including penalties. notifications of trainings, etc. before penalties. Part of current code 13. Policy Direction (common exemptions) - Low occupancy - Building conditions might have changed - Property didn’t have utilities - Undue hardship 14. Benefits of Proposed Policy Direction - From Greenlink Analytics - Impact Potential: spurs economic development, to see by 2030: i. 16 M in utility bill savings ii. 1400 jobs created, cannot be outsources iii. 27% reduced co2 emissions iv. $77M public health savings 15. Impact Potential for Indianapolis - 16 mil in utility bill savings - 27% reduction in CO2 - 1,400 jobs created - 77 million in public health savings due to improved air quality 16. Legislative Process 17. Legislative Process and Timeline - September: public comment period for draft ordinance - November: introducing to city county council - Quarter 4 2020: city-county votes on ordinance 18. Ordinance Comment Period 19. Ordinance Comment Period - Likely open in starting in September - Working with legal staff and legislative staff - Link and ordinance draft posted on indy.gov, distributed to stakeholder list - Public can share feedback with City, virtual public meeting to accompany, live Q&A - Comments will help inform public draft 20. Implementation Plan 21. City Roles and Responsibilities to Administer Policy - Proactive feedback and education - Assistance offerings - Compliance support – want to recognize “leaders” - Policy efficacy – some cities are 5 years in and have not issued fines 22. Looking Ahead 23. Continued Collaboration with Advisory Committee - Possibility of future meetings and stakeholder utilized for implementation task force - Training and educational needs - OOS happy to present to individual teams 24. Questions & Contact - Are warehouses or distribution facility considered manufacturing? Difference between industrial vs. industrial manufacturing, the process load is the biggest difference, simple industrial warehouse would not be eligible for exemption - Had assumed from previous meetings that industrial vs. industrial manufacturing difference as explained here. Not sure how to explain to members and not sure how share with members how to prepare Further defining term is very important, significantly altering energy usage, a small piece of manufacturing would land it in that category, more detailed list needed to better understand how many buildings will be affected, can definitely work through more in the draft form to find agreement for all stakeholders

Many times building with manufacturing have often times been added on and have different meters, can usually separate out due to separate meters

- There are ecommerce facilities that are air conditioned and have large PIC modules, ecommerce is big in Indy, NAIOP members will push to consider real estate definition vs. other definition

This is exciting and growing area and NRDC will support with further definitions & adding full definitions in ordinance and further definitions resources

- Exemption of landlords not legally eligible for access to utility bills? How formulating aggregated data with process. When aggregated data, not an issue. When utilities companies can start to feed data to EM and automatically fed into and not need an exemption.

Additionally, our two-year voluntary period will be helpful in working this out. If building has 50% residential, we do recognize that this is harder

- Lease contracts exist that are 10/15/20 year leases and landlord is not legally entitled to the information. How require information of landlord if not have access to?

This is a common issue that many cities and utilities face. IMT works with organizations around the nation to identify these hurdles and work through them. Minneapolis has great example, will share with group - Can we see draft of ordinance before the public forums? Could send in advance, but want to have it about the same time as

- How will jobs be created? Jobs associated with energy efficiency. When implementing energy efficiency. We can certainly share the impact report to dig into the specifics.

- Building with thermal energy (steam/chilled water) be exempt? Not fully exempt, challenge is not having an accurate sore from portfolio manager, thermal energy is not fully metered, ex. how to meter thermal energy to get more energy efficiency

IUPUI previously shared with group that they enter it into Portfolio Manager just like any other data, important to enter to get accurate picture