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AGENDA TITLE: Adopt resolution approving a Public Benefits Program Grant and authorizing the City
Manager to enter into a two-year contractual agreement with Enercom/Hometown
Connections to provide software for the new Lodi Energy Audit Program (L.E.A.P.) ($23,200)
(EUD)
MEETING DATE: December 19, 2001
PREPARED BY: Electric Utility Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: That the City Council adopt a resolution approving a Public Benefits Program Grant
and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a two-year contractual agreement with
Enercom/Hometown Connections to provide software for the new Lodi Energy Audit
Program (L.E.A.P.) in the amount of $23,200.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The requested Public Benefits Grant will be utilized to purchase a software
program known as Energy Depot. The web -based program will provide
residential and small commercial customers (G-1) with a tool enabling them
to better understand their energy consumption, and reduce utility costs. Customers will be able to access an online,
do-it-yourself home and business energy audit that combines billing histories with information from a questionnaire
completed online by the customer. Other features of the software include:
➢ An Energy Library, which includes a wide selection of fact sheets that address home and business energy
systems, appliances and products; and
➢ An Energy Quick Calculator, which allows customers to calculate the energy use and costs from energy systems
and appliances without completing a full energy audit; and
➢ An Energy Advisor, an e -mail -based inquiry tool, that customers use to ask personal energy questions. These
inquires can be directed to the City of Lodi Electric Utility Department; and
➢ The City will receive an American Public Power Association discount totaling $7,200 over the course of the
contract.
Since early 1999, the City of Lodi has offered free home energy surveys and audits, utilizing a computer program
known as VoltViewtech. To date, in excess of 400 customers have participated. This new product, Energy Depot,
offered by Enercom/Hometown Connections, will allow for a greater range of services and products that the utility
feels customers will find invaluable.
FUNDING: 164605 — Public Benefits Program (Category — Demand-side Management)
Funding Available: t � _�1 �—
Vicky McAthie, IFinance Director
Alan N. Vallow
Electric Utility Director
PREPARED BY: Rob Lechner, Manager of Customer Programs
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C: City Attorney Finance Director
APPROVED:
H. Dixon Flynn - City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 2001-291
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL APPROVING A PUBLIC
BENEFITS GRANT, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE A TWO-YEAR CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT WITH
ENERCOM/HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS TO PROVIDE
SOFTWARE FOR THE NEW LODI ENERGY AUDIT PROGRAM
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WHEREAS, the state has mandated that beginning January 1, 1998, the City of
Lodi is obligated to fund various programs through a Public Benefits Charge (PBC)
based on a historical electric revenue requirement; and
WHEREAS, the requirement amounts to approximately $1 M per year that must
be dedicated to qualifying programs such as energy efficiency. A further stipulation is
that these efforts must be done on the customer's side of the meter in order to qualify;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Lodi's Public Benefits Program is comprised of four
segments or customer groups: commercial/industrial, residential, community/non-profit,
and municipal; and
WHEREAS, this Public Benefits Grant will be utilized to purchase a software
program known as Energy Depot. The web -based program will provide residential and
small commercial customers (G1) with a tool enabling them to better understand their
energy consumption, and reduce utility costs; and
WHEREAS, customers will be able to access an online do-it-yourself home and
business energy audit that combines billing histories with information from a
questionnaire completed online by the customer. Other features of the software include:
• An Energy Library, which includes a wide selection of fact sheets that address
home and business energy systems, appliances, and products; and
• An Energy Quick Calculator, which allows customers to calculate the energy use
and costs from energy systems and appliances without completing a full energy
audit; and
• An Energy Advisor, an e -mail -based inquiry tool that customers use to ask
personal energy questions. These inquires can be directed to the City of Lodi
Electric Utility Department; and
• The City will receive an American Public Power Association discount totaling
$7,200 over the course of the contract.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Lodi City Council hereby
approves a Public Benefits Program Grant, and authorizes the City Manager to execute
a two-year contractual agreement with Enercom/Hometown Connections to provide
software for the new Lodi Energy Audit Program in the amount of $23,200.00.
Dated: December 19, 2001
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I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2001-291 was passed and adopted by the
Lodi City Council in a regular meeting held December 19, 2001 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hitchcock, Howard, Land, Nakanishi,
and Mayor Pennino
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
SUSAN J. BLACKSTON
City Clerk
2001-291