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Description
This segment looks at Arlington Virginia's Community Energy and Sustainability Task Force and the report that will be submitted to the Arlington County Board on May 17. The Community Energy Plan is a long-term project that looks at how we generate, transmit, store and use energy in our County. www.arlingtonva.us search "CEP".
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B
The
community
energy
plan
is
a
long-term
project
that
looks
at
how
we
generate
transmit,
store
and
use
energy
in
our
county.
To
this
end,
then
county
board,
chairman
jay
facette,
convened
a
community
energy
and
sustainability
task
force
to
recommend
long-term
and
short-term
energy
goals
to
the
county
board.
We
spoke
to
some
of
the
participants
at
their
last
meeting.
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This
is
an
attempt
to
create
a
long-term
community
energy
plan
to
ensure
our
sustainability
and
reach
three
goals.
First
goal
is
our
economic
competitiveness
number
two
to
ensure
our
supply
security,
energy
supply
security,
number
three
to
protect
the
environment.
We
have
had
a
wonderful
task
force
that
pulls
that
has
pulled
together
a
draft
energy
plan.
Their
report
gives
us
the
tools,
the
steps,
the
milestones
over
40
years
in
which
to
reach
those
goals.
F
There
there
are
benchmarks
to
hit
over
a
period
of
time.
We
talked
on
the
task
force
about
the
importance
of
checking
progress
along
the
way,
and
perhaps
readjusting
if
we
need
to.
We
think
the
targets
that
have
been
set
in
the
report
are
realistic.
We
wouldn't
have
voted
in
favor
of
them,
otherwise
they
are
ambitious.
They
would
put
arlington
in
the
forefront
of
many
community
of
communities
nationwide
and
perhaps
even
worldwide-
that
are
really
doing
something
about
this.
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So
our
goals
are
to
reduce
over
40
years,
our
energy
use
and
our
greenhouse
gas
amounts
by
about
70
percent,
and
the
truth
is
the
recommendations
that
are
that
report
use
proven
technologies.
So
this
is
visionary
for
a
community
in
america,
but
practical
because
it's
been
done
in
other
places
already.
F
I
think
the
same
way
that
arlington
citizens
currently
are
thankful
to
folks
in
arlington's
past
decades,
who
did
great
land
use
and
transportation
planning
that
we're
all
benefiting
from
now
decades
from
now.
The
planning
of
this
task
force
will
really
be
paying
off,
and
others
will
say,
gosh.
Whoever
thought
of
this
20
and
30
years
ago
really
did
us
a
favor.
B
D
I
think
that
residential
consumers
are
going
to
be
really
critical
to
this
plan,
particularly
the
solar
piece.
I
believe
that
lots
and
lots
of
solar
installations
on
residences
both
new
and
rehabbed
and
existing
residences,
putting
a
lot
of
solar
panels
on
those
roofs
is
going
to
be
an
important,
demonstrable
and
and
visible
sign
of
success
of
this
plan,
and
I
believe
that
will
happen.
H
There
what's
going
to
change
dramatically,
is
the
multi-family
housing,
new
apartments
towers,
even
mid-rise
properties
up
and
down
columbia,
pike,
continuing
the
infill
we've
already
had
in
the
rb
corridor,
and
I
think
it's
those
properties
that
will
see
the
most
dramatic
change
in
their
energy
use
and
delivery.
However,
the
plan
doesn't
ignore
single
family.
It's
also
got
some
suggestions,
incentives,
a
lot
of
it,
the
bully
pulpit
trying
to
get
single-family
homes
to
when
they
renovate,
for
example,
to
bring
themselves
up
to
contemporary
energy
standards
as
well.
I
Well,
installing
solar,
solar
on
your
home,
you
can
explore
that
you
can.
You
can
decide
that
you're
going
to
use
an
alternate
fuel
vehicle
because
there's
a
transportation
component
as
well.
We
can
walk
use
metro,
so
there
are
lots
of
things
that
we
can
do
now.
We
can
do
more
of
those
things
to
be
more
efficient
and
then
we
can
explore
other
things
like
solar
again
using
evs
or
other
types
of
alternate
fuel
vehicles.