Joint Energy Team

The Joint Energy Team (“JET”) takes a proactive and collaborative approach to ensuring that the City of Richmond develops clear and impactful priorities, policies, and solutions for continued clean energy improvements.

Richmond’s Clean Energy Future

Each year the City of Richmond uses significant amounts of energy in forms such as electricity, natural gas, diesel fuel, and gasoline in the operations of municipal buildings and facilities, services, utility systems, vehicles, and equipment. Annual expenditures for energy exceed $25M per year.

Gains in efficiency and investment in renewable energy can yield significant financial and environmental benefits, and strategic management of these resources enables the cost-effective delivery of City services to the public. Energy management decisions affect all departments.

The Joint Energy Team (“JET”) provides the mechanism needed for all City departments to share in the responsibility of energy management and partner in strategic planning for all initiatives related to buildings, vehicles, and energy.

JET Committees

  • 1. Municipal Energy Assessments Committee

    • 1a. Benchmarking - Energy benchmarking standards will be established for all city-owned building

    • 1b. Submetering - Energy submetering pilot project at WWTP Blower Building

    • 1c. Asset Management - Apply naming conventions across all CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) & migrate under 1 centralized system.

  • 2. Electric Vehicle Transition Committee

    • 2a. Fuel Tracking - Implement a regular (recommended quarterly) Fleet Fuel Consumption Report the quarter after telematics are implemented.

    • 2b. EV Charging - Enter the city into a holistic (chargers, installation, service, tracking, reporting, chargebacks, etc.) contract for EV chargers through existing cooperative agreement or RFP process by the end of Q2 FY25.​​

    • 2c. EV Policy - Create a centralized EV Charging Policy by the end of Q3 FY25 respective to the results of Goal 2b

  • 3. Energy Conservation & Education Committee

    • 3a. Conservation Policy - Adopt Policy: Energy Conservation

    • 3b. Communications- Interdepartmental energy education & communications

    • 3c. Training - HR training for energy conservation

    • 3d. Policy Accountability - Determine accountability, responsibility and enforcement of energy conservation policy

    • 3e. Policy Integration - Integrate energy conservation policy requirements into CIP projects

  • 4. Smart Infrastructure Committee

    • 4a. Stakeholder Engagement Plan - Develop public outreach & engagement plan for smart infrastructure projects

    • 4b. Smart Government Policy - Establish governance policy for Smart City Initiatives

    • 4c. Outdoor Lighting - Determine costs for converting pedestrian lights to LED

    • 4d. Outdoor Lighting - Develop plan for LED conversion of lights in city-owned parking lots

  • 5. Renewable Energy Planning Committee

    • 5a. Solar Feasibility - Conduct solar feasibility study

    • 5b. Renewable Tech Pilot Projects - Consider alternative clean energy solutions

    • 5c. Project Funding - Evaluate new grant opportunities for solar installations and other clean energy solutions

    • 5d. Renewable Energy Credits - Meet the City's commitment of 100% renewable electricity by the end of 2025

Resources

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