The Climate Smart San José plan established greenhouse gas emission reduction goals of 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, with interim reduction goals of 28% by 2025, 36% by 2030, and 70% by 2040. Based on ACEEE's analysis of past years emissions data, ACEEE projects that the city will meet its near-te Contact online >>
The Climate Smart San José plan established greenhouse gas emission reduction goals of 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, with interim reduction goals of 28% by 2025, 36% by 2030, and 70% by 2040. Based on ACEEE''s analysis of past years emissions data, ACEEE projects that the city will meet its near-term community-wide GHG emissions reduction goal.
San José''s most recent greenhouse gas inventory accounts for 2017 emissions. The previous inventory includes results from 2014 and updated results from the 2008 inventory.
Climate Smart San José established an additional goal to reduce household energy consumption from 14,988 kWh in 2017 to 5,704 kWh by 2050, with interim reduction goals of 10,626 kWh by 2030 and 6,547 kWh by 2040.
Previously, the San José Green Vision plan established a goal to reduce per capita energy use 50% by 2022.
San José Clean Energy, a community choice aggregator that serves over 98% of San José customers, has a goal of achieving 100% carbon-neutral electricity by 2021 and 100% renewable electricity by 2050. Currently, SJCE''s default service includes 80% carbon free electricity (45% renewable).
Last updated: August 2023
Equity-Driven Community Engagement
While developing the Climate Smart San José plan, the city conducted 38 community meetings and events in Spanish-speaking and Vietnamese-speaking neighborhoods. Environmental Services partnered with the nonprofit organization, Mothers Out Front, to hold a Spanish-language outreach event to publicize Climate Smart to Spanish-speaking residents of San José.
While not providing an opportunity to directly engage and receive feedback with marginalized communities, the city also pursued several outreach strategies targeting such communities. Examples include trilingual surveys and advertisements, energy-efficiency and recycling trainings held in Spanish, and LED light bulb distributions in underserved communities.
Equity-Driven Decision-Making
The city''s Co-Creation Consultant initiative gives two community-based organizations serving marginalized residents a formal decision-making role in the development of residential energy efficiency initiatives.
Equity Accountability Measures
Move San Jose identifies more than 40 key performance indicators that track the City''s progress towards 9 transportation objectives – "Access for All", "Enjoyable Transportation", "Plan for the Future", "Clean the Air", "Less Driving", "Connected Neighborhoods", "Transportation Safety", "Move the Economy", and "20-Minute Neighborhoods". Examples of the 40 KPIs that track program impacts on local disadvantaged communities include electric vehicle market penetration rate by neighborhood and public electric vehicle charger deployment by neighborhood. The City aims to use these KPIs and public input to prioritize investment strategies, especially in low-income and historically underserved communities, and track the City''s progress of advancing the KPIs for those communities.
Heat Island Mitigation Policies and Programs
San José passed two policies pertaining to low-impact development requirements. Policy 6-29 requires new and redevelopment projects that create or replace 5,000 square feet or more of impervious surfaces must incorporate low impact development techniques. Policy 8-14 requires that projects that are both greater than one acre in size and in proximity to creeks ensure post-development flow rates are equal or less than pre-development flow rates. San José''s Green Stormwater Infrastructure Plan provides guidance for implementing green stormwater infrastructure such as permeable pavements in municipal projects.
The city has also adopted requirements for the protection of private trees.
The City''s Biblioteca Latinoamericana Library was selected to participate in BayREN''s Resilient Library Network program, through which the library will receive technical assistance to plan how to retrofit the library for both energy efficiency and to serve as a community resilience center
Workforce development for disadvantaged workers
The City joined the regional High Road Training Partnership, funded by the California Workforce Development Board, and led by Rising Sun). In bi-monthly regional meetings the City is learning and discussing both supply (contractor training and education) and demand (job creation/growth, labor standards) opportunities to enhance and influence workforce development programs by learning from peer cities and organizations, including San Francisco, Berkeley, San Rafael, StopWaste, BayREN, Center for Sustainable Neighborhoods, trade union representatives, and the Building Electrification Institute.
San José Works, a work2future program, has been providing services since 2015 aimed at San José residents ages 16-29, offers participants opportunities for job placements with renewable energy companies, among other employers. This supports young people, including those of low-income, women, people of color, and other disadvantaged residents, to join the workforce.
Workforce development for the broader community
We could not determine if city has partnered with a local education institution, labor union, or community-based organization to create, support, and/or incentivize the development of clean energy workforce development initiatives that target training and support services for potential or existing workers from the broader community to obtain and keep in-demand jobs.
Work2future tracks multiple metrics, such as participation rates and the number of participants who gain employment.
The State of California allows its local jurisdictions to adopt building energy codes that are more stringent than the mandatory state codes. Title 24 outlines all California building codes. Title 24, Part 6 includes the California Energy Code and the California Building Energy Efficiency Standards (BEES). Title 24, Part 11 includes the California Green Building Code. The 2022 codes exceed the 2021 IECC standards and ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1-2018. To learn more about California''s building energy codes, please visit the State Policy Database.
San José''s Reach Code was updated in October 2022 to align with the most recent state building code cycle and uses the the EDR compliance pathway (see explanation below under Residential). Under San José''s Reach Code, all new residential construction for single-family, low-rise multifamily, and detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) must meet all-electric efficiency requirements of the 2022 California Building Energy Code (Base Code), or mixed-fuel must meet a minimum 10 point EDR reduction from the Base Code with electrification readiness. A hardship exemption may be provided for permanent supportive housing and housing built for 30% local area median income.
Commercial buildings must meet the requirements of San Jose''s reach code and natural gas ban. The city''s zEPI score for their commercial energy code is 41.
Residential buildings must meet the requirements of San José''s reach code and natural gas ban. The city''s zEPI score for their residential energy code is 26.
In 2019, California energy codes (Title 24) adopted the Energy Design Rating (EDR) compliance pathway. EDR is similar to ERI in that the reference home is a score of 100 with every percentage of energy reduced representing a score reduction of one point; for more information please visit RESNET.
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