Horizons

HorizonsSustainability Information System

Climate Action Associates LLC

MWCOG Energy Advisory Committee meetingJim Yienger

Goals For Today

• Introduce the Horizons Sustainability Information System

• Discuss applicability for MWCOG’s regional GHG initiative

• Solicit feedback from the EAB• Discuss our current plans

Sustainability Strategy

Entire Community

Government Operations

Energy and emissions related to everyone,all residents and businesses

Buildings, facilities, fleet, etc.

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Communities need LOTS of consistent and reliable DATA on:

Utility Energy and Fuel Oil ConsumptionVehicle Miles TraveledTransit Ridership MetricsWaste Generation Water Consumption and QualityMaterials ConsumptionClimate and Weather Data (HDD CDD)Education, Housing Density, and Crime Economic Indicators

Utility Data

Transportation Demand

Fuel Oil

“Scope 3” Sources Consumption, etc

Census InformationNOAA / weather service

Solid and sewage waste

Community

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Communities must seek data

Horizons Sustainability Information System

– Local-regional-state-nationwide common publishing platform for communities, utilities, MPOs, and others to share community aggregate sustainability data.

– Standardizes energy consumption and transportation data across different utilities and MPOs

– Managed by a COG, the Horizons Regional GHG module can automate GHG inventories to all communities.

– Communities go there and simply “get” their data and inventory- saving them time and energy.

– Multi-user. COG can manage and upload data, or as part of a regional initiative train utilities to upload data themselves as part of a long term cooperation agreement.

– Scalable- immediately work with other regions on the same platform– Saves everyone money and time.

Utilities(more than 3000 in USA)

Metropolitan Planning Organizations

Transit Agencies

State and FederalAgencies

Local GovernmentsCounties, Cities, Towns, Villages

State and FederalAgencies

EEPS and SBC Program monitoring

Academia, non-profits, etc.

Academia, non-profits, businesses, etc.

Data SupplyData Demand

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The “Great Mapping Problem”

PEPCO

B&GE

NOVEC

The MWCOG region is a subset of the larger Horizons

CommunityMap and includes all

Counties, Cities, Towns, and Census Designated Places in

the region.

Horizons Community Map

NOVEC(Energy consumption) Publishing

MWCOG(Total VMT)

PEPCO(Energy Consumption)

Any StatewidePublisher(Fuel Oil Consumption)

20062006

20062007

20072007

20082008

20082009

20092009

20102010

2010 -

10,000.00

20,000.00

30,000.00

40,000.00

50,000.00

60,000.00

70,000.00

80,000.00

Monthly GHG Emissions from Utility Energy Consumption(Metric Tons)

ElectricityNatural Gas

Met

ric T

ons

2006 2007 2008 20093000

3100

3200

3300

3400

3500

3600

3700

Heating Degree Days(December - February)

AdvancedCommunity Energy Analysis…

Community GHG Baselines…

GHG Emissions

Transportation VMT

Utility Energy Consumption

Fuel Oil Consumption

Waste (generation rate)

AutomatedApples to ApplesCommunity levelMWCOG-wideMulti-regionState-wideNational

The more data providers,the broader the scale of collaboration

HorizonsSustainability Information System

Product Demonstrationhttp://climatetools.com/horizons