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From the Mayor's Office:
Mayor Miro Weinberger and BED General Manager Darren Springer issue the City’s 2022 Net Zero Energy Roadmap update. Additionally, partners CarShare Vermont, Champlain Housing Trust, and VLITE are on hand to share information about new electric vehicle (EV) carsharing and public EV car charging opportunities in the Old North End.
With: Mayor Miro Weinberger; Darren Springer, General Manager, Burlington Electric Department; Annie Bourdon, Executive Director, CarShare Vermont; Michael Monte, Chief Executive Officer, Champlain Housing Trust; Gabrielle Malina, Executive Director, VLITE
6/13/2023
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A
A
A
few
examples
of
that
in
2012
Burlington
had
fewer
than
25
solar
installations.
Today
we
have
almost
385
solar,
arrays,
generating
well
over
nine
megawatts
of
deployed
photovolta
capacity,
which
is
the
most
per
capita
of
any
city
east
of
the
Mississippi,
and
it's.
This
has
been
consistent
for
years
now.
A
So
in
today's
update
you're
going
to
see
a
couple
big
things
in
in
the
data
that
we're
sharing
today,
one
is
that
clearly
our
incentives
and
our
other
efforts
to
Electrify
vehicles
and
homes
are
working
and
having
an
impact
on
putting
Burlington
on
a
different
trajectory,
a
better
trajectory
than
the
rest
of
the
country.
With
respect
to
carbon
emissions,
in
particular,
you're
going
to
see
that
progress
in
the
gasoline
and
Diesel
consumption,
where,
for
the
third
year
in
a
row,
we
are
below
the
ambitious
targets
that
we
have
set
for
decarbonizing.
A
A
A
What
you're
going
to
see
in
the
data
again
is
the
is
the
real
impact
of
these
incentives
and
the
collaborations
that
we
are
setting
up
in
parallel
with
those
incentives
with
organizations
like
the
partners
here
today,
car
share
Vermont,
Champlain,
Housing,
Trust
and
v-light
these
com.
This
combination
of
Partnerships
in
incentives
is,
is
having
a
major
impact,
as
Darren
will
walk
you
through
in
a
moment,
but
from
the
the
start
of
this
effort
from
the
writing
of
the
road
map.
A
We
believe
that
we
need
to
do
more
than
simply
offer
these
incentives,
and
we
in
parallel
have
sought
as
a
city,
new
regulatory
Authority
and
passed
new
ordinances
aimed
at
reducing
fossil
fuel
use
for
building
heat
building
heat,
which
is
the
biggest
single
driver
of
Burlington's
carbon
emissions.
Just
to
recap,
some
of
those
steps.
Burlington
voters
took
a
very
strong
stand
on
climate
action
on
town
meeting
Day
this
year
again
with
their
second
vote
and
over
two-thirds
voting
this
time
to
create
the
first
carbon
pollution
impact
fee
in
the
state.
A
There's
a
committee
that
is
actively
working
on
this
proposal
right
now
and
we're
hopeful
for
Action
soon,
once
implemented,
Burlington
will
join
a
short
list
of
U.S
cities
regulating
the
use
of
fossil
fuels
for
thermal
energy
and
heating.
It's
really
just
a
handful
of
other
municipalities
that
do
this
other
important
step.
That
is
very
much
in
our
our
sites
and
we're
actively
working
on,
and
that
will
go
go
straight
to
the
areas
of
challenge
that
you're
going
to
see
here.
A
In
that
we
are
particularly
having
challenge
in
the
commercial
sector
with
increased
natural
gas
consumption,
the
we
are
nearing
a
go
no-go
decision
and
have
committed
to
a
go.
No
go
decision
after
many
years
of
work
on
the
creation
of
a
new
system
to
capture
waste
heat
and
renewable
Steam
from
the
McNeil
plant
and
use
that
captured
heat
to
heat
buildings
at
the
UVM,
Medical
Center,
and
possibly
the
UVM
campus
as
well.
A
We
are
within
months
of
getting
to
this
key
threshold
and,
if
there's
a
way
to
do
it,
given
its
impact
on
on
our
our
climate
challenges,
it's
certainly
Something
That
We're
committed
to
getting
done
if
it's
possible
to
get
it
done.
It's
through
fiscally
responsible,
Innovative
and
aggressive
tactics
like
these.
That
Burlington
has
become
a
national
leader
in
climate
action
and
it's
how
we're
going
to
achieve
the
rest
of
our
goals
on
the
roadmap
again.
A
B
Good
morning,
everybody
we're
first
of
all
very
excited
to
be
here
at
this
facility
with
the
car
share
EV
here
and
the
charging
station
and
the
new
station
that's
available
through
the
Champlain
Housing
Trust
for
folks
here
in
the
old
North
End
to
charge
their
vehicles.
This
is
a
partnership
between
car
share,
V,
Lite,
bed
and
Champlain
Housing
trust
that
you're
going
to
hear
more
about
in
just
a
few
minutes.
What
we're
sharing
today
and
we've
got
a
few
charts
here
to
illustrate
is
our
2022
roadmap
update.
B
As
the
mayor
mentioned,
we
partner
with
synapse
energy
economics,
which
helped
us
with
the
roadmap
back
in
2019
and
we've
updated
it
every
year.
Since
and
again,
our
focus
is
the
ground
transportation
sector
and
then
the
building
sector,
and
that's
where
we're
focused
on
reducing
and
eventually
eliminating
fossil
fuel
use
for
the
City
of
Burlington
and
helping
to
use
our
100
renewable
electricity
to
get
the
job
done.
B
So,
starting
with
some
exciting
news
which
is
on
this
chart
here,
you
can
see
that
gasoline
and
Diesel
consumption,
the
ground
transportation
sector,
had
a
significant
drop
during
the
pandemic,
and
then
we've
essentially
been
able
to
hold
that
level.
Even
as
we've
come
out
of
the
pandemic,
we've
reopened
we're
seeing
more
economic
activity.
The
reason
for
that
is
a
few
different
things.
One
is
we
are
seeing
more
EVs
and
plug-in
hybrids
being
registered
in
Burlington.
We
are
incentivizing
more
of
those
vehicles
through
Burlington
electric
number,
two
and
very
relevant
to
the
partnership.
B
Here
with
car
share.
We
are
seeing
fewer
car
registrations
in
Burlington
relative
to
Prior
years,
so
there
are
less
burlingtonians
who
are
owning
a
vehicle
and
maybe
they're
using
car
share,
maybe
they're
taking
the
bus
or
using
walk
bike
to
help
get
around,
and
we
are
seeing
less
vehicle
miles,
traveled
relative
to
the
pre-pandemic
time
frame,
so
that
combination
has
been
very
powerful
and
has
led
us
to
be
ahead
of
the
ambitious
Pace
that
we
have
with
the
Net
Zero
roadmap
when
it
comes
to
the
ground
transport
station
sector.
So
that's
exciting
progress.
B
B
Our
natural
gas
use
in
the
City
of
Burlington,
and
this
really
speaks
to
the
building
sector,
fossil
fuel
use
because
the
vast
vast
majority
of
burlingtonians
are
connected
to
natural
gas
and
what
you
can
see
in
both
the
residential
and
the
commercial
sector,
but
more
pronounced
in
the
commercial
sector
was
we
were
sort
of
on
Pace.
We
had
a
bit
of
a
dip
over
a
few
years,
and
then
we
had
a
flattening
and
then
a
rebound
and
it's
a
mild
rebound
relatively.
B
But
it's
still
something
that
we're
looking
at
here,
particularly
in
the
commercial
sector,
and
there
are
a
few
different
factors
that
can
be
at
play.
One
is
this
is
not
whether
normalized
data
so
to
the
extent
that
the
22
22
early
part
of
the
winter,
not
this
most
recent
winter,
but
the
winner
prior
was
colder
than
normal.
B
You
would
see
more
use
of
natural
gas,
so
that's
one
potential
driver
also,
we
know,
as
as
the
mayor
mentioned,
we
have
a
lot
of
policy,
that's
in
place
and
more
coming
affecting
new
buildings,
making
sure
they're
using
renewable
heating
sources,
but
there
may
have
been
buildings
that
were
permitted
prior
to
that.
That
may
have
come
online.
That
could
be
a
part
of
this
as
well,
and
then,
lastly,
it's
possible
that
buildings
are
using
their
ventilation
systems
more
postcovid
than
they
were
pre-covered.
So
there
could
be
a
change
in
building
ventilation.
B
Use
the
exciting
thing,
though,
out
of
this
data
is
we
have
a
ready-made
solutions
to
some
of
this
challenge.
As
the
mayor
mentioned,
having
the
carbon
pricing
policy
go
into
effect,
where
all
new
buildings
will
be
100
renewable
and
where
large
existing
buildings
can
also
play
a
role
when
they
change
out
their
heating
systems
and
City
buildings.
That
will
make
a
dent,
particularly
here
in
the
commercial
natural
gas
use.
So
if
that
gets
into
place
that
will
begin
to
have
an
impact.
B
So
if
you
look
at
this
here,
16
reduction,
just
from
that
single
step
alone,
if
we
can
move
that
forward
and
then,
lastly,
as
as
we
change
out,
this
chart
we'll
we'll
kind
of
zoom
out
to
the
bigger
picture
with
total
emissions
from
the
ground,
transportation
sector
and
the
building
sector
in
Burlington.
And
what
we
see
here
is
again
a
significant
drop
overall
during
the
pandemic,
and
then
we've
seen
a
very
mild
rebound
overall
in
Burlington
we
between
2020
and
2022,
saw
about
a
3.2
percent
Rebound
in
emissions.
B
We
are
still
11.2
percent
lower
today
in
2022
than
we
were
in
2018
when
we
started
with
the
roadmap.
That's
our
Baseline
year
is
2018.,
so
Burlington
is
still
11.2
percent
lower
in
greenhouse
gas
emissions
in
these
sectors
than
we
were
in
2018.
nationally
we
saw
a
six
and
a
half
percent
jump
in
2020
to
2021
and
then
another
1.3
percent
from
21
to
22.,
so
we're
I
think
less
than
half
what
the
rebound
has
been
nationally
here
in
Burlington.
So
we
are
not
resting
on
any
of
that
progress.
B
We
have
a
lot
more
work.
We
want
to
do
to
help
customers
switch
over
to
EVs
and
heat
pumps
to
put
in
place
the
policies
and
the
projects
that
will
help
kind
of
further
Bend
this
curve
back
down
to
the
roadmap
trajectory.
So
we're
going
to
hear
now,
speaking
of
that
Transportation
success
from
Annie
Borden
from
car
share,
who
we've
partnered
with
on
this
and
many
other
EVs
and
plug-in
hybrids
around
the
community
and
we're
so
excited
to
be
here
at
the
old
North
End
Community
Center
with
Annie.
So
Annie.
Please.
C
Thank
you
so
I'd
like
to
introduce
YouTube
Fabio,
which
is
our
fifth
all-electric
vehicle
in
our
Fleet
of
25
and
we're
thrilled
to
be
here.
We
PR
it
would
be
really
difficult
to
expand
access
to
electric
car
sharing
without
creative
Partnerships
like
this,
including
CHT,
making
available
parking,
which
is
a
hot
commodity
here
in
Burlington
bed,
with
all
of
the
incentives
and
force
V
Lite
for
for
funding
our
vehicle
and
the
charging
station.
C
Car
sharing
makes
Vehicles
available
to
hundreds
of
households
in
Burlington
and
now
winuski,
who
either
choose
not
to
own
vehicles
or
can't
afford
to
own
vehicles,
and
the
vast
majority
of
our
thousand
plus
members
belong
to
zero
or
one
car
households
and
because
they
own
fewer
cars.
They
drive
a
lot
less
than
typical
vehicle
owners
and
they
therefore
make
dramatic
advancements
at
reducing
their
vehicle
miles,
traveled
simply
by
owning
fewer
cars.
C
So
we're
thrilled
to
be
here.
You
know
this
is
our
fifth
out
of
our
25
cars
and
we
hope
that
we
can
convert
more
through
creative
Partnerships
like
this
and
ensure
that
people
have
affordable
access
to
Vehicles
when
they
need
them
and
when
they
don't,
they
can
find
other
other
clean
ways
to
get
around.
So
we're
very,
very
happy.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
B
I
also
want
to
recognize
Gabrielle
Molina
from
Delight,
as
Annie
mentioned.
V-Light
is
a
partner
in
funding
this
infrastructure,
and
this
electric
vehicle
with
car
share
they've
been
a
really
important
partner.
I
also
want
to
recognize
other
members
of
the
BT
b.ed
team.
Besides
Mike,
we
have
sustainability
director
for
the
city,
gen
green
energy,
Equity,
analyst
itameno
I
think
they
both
arrived
on
bikes,
walk
in
the
walk
and
biking
the
bike
and
and
we're
really
thrilled
to
have
them
here
and
also.
B
B
D
D
These
Chargers
we're
committed
to
the
work
we
have
23
charging
stations
at
11,
different
multi-family
properties
throughout
the
region.
We
have
more
multi,
more
solar,
hot
water
arrays
now
in
Rose
than
anyone
at
this
point
and
many
of
our
properties,
we
probably
we
have
two
charging
stations
and
two
EVS
at
our
headquarters.
That's
actually
staff
use
exclusively
to
get
around
town
with,
and
we
we
pay
our
staff
thirty
dollars
a
DOT
a
month
to
walk
a
bike
to
work.
D
A
Yeah
it's!
This
is
a
big,
a
big
issue.
It's
certainly
a
big
issue
recently,
nationally
and
and
at
the
local
level
we've
been
trying
to
get
out
ahead
of
this
for
some
time
now.
You
may
remember
that
the
electrification
bonds,
that
we
went
to
the
voters
for
approval
for
and
what
was
in
the
fall
of
December
21
21
and
that
passed
there
was
20
million
dollars
and
included
in
that
was
funds
for
making
investments
in
the
bed
infrastructure
and
those
Investments
are
underway.
You
want
to
share
any
detail
about
that.
Absolutely.
B
Yeah,
in
fact,
part
of
the
Net
Zero
Revenue
bond
is
really
at
work
here
with
these
incentives,
because
by
making
the
bond
proposal,
we
created
liquidity
to
to
do
more
with
our
incentives,
but
we
are
focused
on
making
sure
we
stay
out
ahead
of
where
customers
are
in
terms
of
adding
electric
use.
What
we've
seen
is
a
lot
of
electrification
happening
in
the
residential
sector.
B
You
know
folks,
who
are
buying
EVS
or
buying
heat
pumps
or
electric
lawn
mowers,
we've
seen
less
happening
so
far
in
the
commercial
sector,
although
we
have
great
examples
of
ground,
Source
heat
pump,
geothermal
systems
at
places
like
hula,
and
we
know
that
the
new
high
school
is
going
to
be
looking
at
that
as
well.
So
we're
expecting
more
uptake
in
the
commercial
sector
as
well.
B
The
good
news
is,
we
have
a
grid
that
was
built
to
accommodate
electric
resistance,
heat
back
in
the
1970s
and
80s,
and
we've
moved
away
from
that
we're
more
efficient.
Now
so
there's
some
Headroom
in
our
existing
system
already
and
we're
taking
advantage
of
that
as
we
move
towards
electrification,
we
are
making
Investments
as
well
to
take
our
grid
from
being
a
roughly
80
megawatt
capacity
grid,
up
to
an
interim
step
of
around
102.3
megawatts
and
eventually,
potentially
120
or
so
megawatts.
B
A
E
C
Soon
to
be
the
marketplace
garage,
downtown
and
all
of
our
vehicles
are
parked
either
on
Street,
thanks
to
the
City
of
Burlington
or
in
public
garages,
or
thanks
to
Partnerships,
with
housing
Partners
like
CHT
and
other
private
property
owners.
So
we
have
all
we're
really
fortunate
that
car
share
has
access
to
very
affordable
at
no
costs
it.
There
is
a
cost
to
the
public
to
us
to
you
know
everyone
pays
for
parking,
but
that's
how
we
access
our
parking
and
have
dedicated
spaces
for
our
vehicles.
A
I
think
it's
important
it
can
be
if
you're,
not
a
I've,
been
a
car
share.
Member
we're
just
saying
I
think
since
2007
or
2008,
so
very
early
on
we're
one
car
household,
so
I'm
always
excited
to
see
a
new
new
pod
opening
up
it
I
I.
Imagine
people
are
not
members,
they
might
see
a
space
being
taken
up
by
car
share
and
think
of
that
as
somehow
a
lost
space,
but
I.
A
Think
what's
important
to
remember
is
that
the
whole
essence
of
the
this
shared
service
is
that
it
dramatically
reduces
the
overall
parking
load
when
you
have,
instead
of
you,
know,
15
20
households
each
needing
to
park
their
vehicle
somewhere
when
you
have
that
just
the
occasional
use
of
a
shared
vehicle,
the
impact
of
that
household
on
on
overall
parking
is
you
know
this
is
something
that
really
brings
down
the
overall
parking
pressures
dramatically.
It's
one
of
the
great
things
about
the
service
yeah.
E
C
That's
a
great
point,
so
car
sharing
it
exists
to
make
vehicle
access
more
affordable.
That's
a
huge
part
of
our
we're,
a
non-profit
organization,
that's
part
of
our
social
Mission
and
a
growing
portion
of
our
of
our
members,
particularly
since
the
start
of
pandemic
come
from
households
with
low
or
very
low
incomes
and
car
share.
Vermont,
provides
free
memberships
to
these
households
and
makes
our
vehicles
available.
C
The
minimum
reservation
is
30
minutes,
so
people
are
using
our
vehicles
to
access
groceries,
Access,
Medical,
Care,
get
to
appointments
visit
family
without
the
high
cost
and
burden
of
a
vehicle
that
sits
parked.
You
know,
98
of
the
day
this
vehicle
Fabio
right
here,
it's
pretty
new
to
our
Fleet
and
it
already
last
month
in
the
month
of
May,
went
on
75,
unique
reservations.
C
That
means
multiple
households
every
day,
we're
using
it
to
meet
their
needs
that
they
may
otherwise
struggle
to
without
access
to
a
vehicle
and
that
it's
a
zero
emission
vehicle
is
awesome,
so
shared
via
car
sharing
in
general,
reduces
demand
for
vehicles
and
VMT
and
makes
them
more
affordable.
But
putting
EVS
in
a
in
a
shared
Fleet
definitely
makes
access
to
EVS
more
affordable
because
folks
may
not
otherwise,
despite
the
generous
rebates,
be
able
to
afford
a
new
car.
So
that's
a
great
point.
D
A
I
just
wanted
to
also
make
the
point
I
think
it's
important
that
the
the
media
understand
the
public
understand
that
the
kind
of
old
ideas
we
have
in
the
head
about
our
heads
about
the
expense
of
electric
vehicles
is
really
changing
rapidly,
and
that
has
particularly
this
happens.
This
is
our
one
of
the.
This
is
one
of
the
ways
we
are
going
to
win.
This
battle
against
the
the
climate
emergency
is
that
the
various
Technologies
really
get
better
and
more
affordable
over
time.
A
We've
seen
that
happen
in
the
in
the
Solar
space
dramatically
and
part
of
the
reason
that
we've
gone
from
25
solar
installations
to
385
is
because
we
focused
on
it
with
local
policies
and
local
action,
but
a
big
part
of
it
also
has
been
just
the
dramatic
reduction
in
expense.
That's
expensive,
installed,
PV
has
dropped
something
like
90.
A
Yeah
and
then,
if
you
go
back
a
little
farther
than
that,
it's
come
down
99,
so
something
similar
is
happening
with
electric
vehicles.
Now
it's
happening
kind
of
through
the
market
and
on
the
technology
side,
and
it's
certainly
also
being
game
in
a
big
boost
with
these
incentives.
So
you
know
I,
think
when
just
to
use
this
to
I
said
in
my
remarks,
there's
never
been
a
better
time
for
burlingtonians
to
go
all
electric
just
to
give
an
example
of
that
we've
used
before
right
now
with
you
wanna.
B
B
A
And
then
it
becomes
more
affordable
once
you
own
it
as
well,
because
there's
far
less
maintenance
in
an
electric
vehicle
and
if
you
sign
up
for
if
you've
got
a
BD
charger
and
you
sign
up
for
the
preferential
rate
you
can.
What
is
it
up
to
about
70
about
70
cents?
A
gallon
is
the
equivalent
for
recharging
your
vehicle
at
night,
so
the
the
economics
around
electrifying
everything
are
really
changing
dramatically
and
they're
similar
stories
taking
place
with
all
these
other
products
as
well.
A
Okay,
thank
you
all
for
being
here.
If
there's
no
more
questions,
I
think
we'll
call
it
at
that.
I
want
to
say
thanks
again
to
our
partners
for
for
being
here
and,
moreover,
for
for
the
work
moving
moving
forward.
This
is
something
that
is.
We
should
always
keep
in
mind
with
this
Net
Zero
Energy
goal.
This
is
not
just
a
municipal
goal.