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Garfield Clean Energy 4th Quarter 2014 Report January 9, 2015 • Prepared by CLEER: Clean Energy Economy for the Region

(970) 704-‐9200 • www.GarfieldCleanEnergy.org Table of Contents Page

1. Energy efficiency summary 1 2. Residential Revolving Loan Fund 1 3. Residential energy efficiency 2 4. Commercial energy efficiency 2 5. Clean energy services benefitting GCE partners 5 6. Renewable energy 6 7. Active energy management services for GCE partners 8 8. Petroleum Independence Project 11 9. Case studies, fact sheets, outreach and website 12 10. Program management 14 11. Credit Reserve Fund reporting 14

1. Energy efficiency investment, energy savings and rebate summary Residential Commercial Total Project count 78 58 136 Project investment $265,239 $683,397 $912,871 Est. energy savings / year $12,851 $92,765 $99,264 Rebate funding * CDPHE SEP grant $7,479 $25,509 $32,988 Glenwood Springs Electric $38,048 $70,113 $108,161 CORE / Pitkin County $88,794 $39,825 $128,619 Total rebate funding $134,321 $135,447 $269,768 * Additional rebates paid by Xcel Energy, Holy Cross Energy and SourceGas not included in this table. 2. Garfield Clean Energy Residential Revolving Loan Fund Total loans: 22, all current Current loan balance: $117,162 Portfolio yield: 2.207% New loans this quarter: 5 Total available for loan: $178,000

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3. Residential energy efficiency. Goal: 55 households making retrofits; 2014 Actual: 78 households Residential retrofits: 78 Measures: 78 Economic development Parachute / Battlement: 6 Rifle: 9 Silt: 5 New Castle: 3 Glenwood Springs: 52 Carbondale: 3 Total coaching clients: 168 Total emails/calls: 581

Insulation and air seal: 9 Furnace or boiler: 10 Water heater: 2 Windows: 1 Swamp cooler: 13 LED lighting: 33 Ground source heat pump: 1 Solar PV: 7 Programmable thermostat: 1 HERS Assessment: 1

Total retrofit costs: $265,239 Utility rebates: $7,640 GCE (SEP) rebates: $7,479 Glenwood Springs rebate: $38,048 CORE rebates: $88,794 Rebate apps pending: 3 Est. savings: $12,851 / year Rebate multiplier: 3.9

4. Commercial energy efficiency. Goal: 50 businesses & governments making retrofits; 2014 Actual: 58 Commercial activity summary Total 2014 coaching clients: 117 Total emails/calls: 415 Commercial enrollments received

2014: 64 Total project investment: $683,397

Total rebates: $84,986 Does not include Xcel Energy, Holy Cross Energy or SourceGas rebates.

Total est. energy savings: $92,765

Total building walk-throughs: 49 Building walk-throughs resulting in projects: 42 of 49, or 85%

New commercial enrollments received Q1 2015: 5

Commercial retrofits for energy efficiency Commercial retrofits: 58 Measures: 66 Retrofit cost Rebate Q1: 9 The Property Shop High efficiency refrigerator $799 $200/GWS The Crystal Company Lighting retrofit $905 $413/GWS Robo Chicken LLC High efficiency boiler $10,186 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church New roof/ bldg. insulation $6,624 Glenwood Ford Lincoln Lighting retrofit $15,015 $2,500/GWS Holliday House HOA Pre-rinse Sprayer $4,200 $500/GWS Cattle Creek Depot Lighting retrofit $4,780 Days Inn Lighting retrofit $7,975 U.S. Forest Service Solar PV $41,855 $6,000/GWS Q2: 12 6 & 13 Quick Mart Lighting retrofit/EC motors $14,885 $2,500/SEP Ambiance Inn Evaporative cooling $2,810 Bookcliff Car Wash Lighting retrofit $8,560 $1,880/SEP Charm School Butcher EC Motors $2,376 Grease Monkey Lighting retrofit $731 $365/GWS Parachute Grub N’ Scrub Lighting retrofit/EC motors $21,353 $2,500/SEP Phat Thai EC Motors $528


Commercial retrofits Measures Retrofit cost Rebate Providence Apothecary Lighting retrofit $302 $151/GWS Third Street Center Lighting retrofit $15,243 Springs Bar and Restaurant Lighting retrofit $5,000 $2,500/GWS KDNK Lighting retrofit $1,236 Keelty Construction Lighting retrofit $10,698 Q3: 20 811 Blake Law Office Lighting retrofit $566 $339.60/GWS Ambiance Inn High efficiency boiler/lighting $19,311 Action Auto Collision Lighting retrofit $50,111 $2,500/GWS Artilluma Dance Company Lighting retrofit $3,388 $1,607/SEP Desktop Solutions High efficiency boiler $10,508 Doc’s Holliday Tavern Lighting retrofit $5,000 $2,500/GWS Big John’s Ace Hardware Lighting retrofit $21,365 $2,500/GWS Factory Outdoor Outlet Lighting retrofit $5,524 $1,030/GWS First United Methodist Church Solar PV / New roof $96,170 $12,500/GWS Hotel Glenwood Springs Lighting retrofit $6,500 $2,500/GWS Glenwood Canyon Brewpub Lighting retrofit $30,929 $2,500/GWS Glenwood Ford Lincoln Lighting retrofit $15,015 $2,500/GWS Grand Valley Fire Protection Dist. Lighting retrofit $3,296 $607/SEP Lawrence Family Investments High efficiency furnace $5,069 $2,500/SEP Pepsi Lighting retrofit $15,984 $2,500/SEP RFTA Lighting retrofit $10,079 $1,471/GWS The Crystal Company Lighting retrofit $1,279 $413.5/GWS Top Gun Plumbing Lighting retrofit $3,560 $1,780/GWS Two Rivers Community School Lighting retrofit $22,200 $2,500/GWS TxAm Pumps LLC Wall insulation $2,710 $1,355/SEP Q4: 17 1301 Grand Ave. Lighting retrofit $11,260 $3,130/GWS Alpine Bank – Central Ops Lighting retrofit / Rooftop Unit $95,420 $2,500/SEP Alpine Bank – Glenwood Grand Lighting retrofit $8,742 $2,500/GWS Climate Control Lighting controls $1,312 $709/GWS Domino’s Pizza Lighting retrofit $6,764 $829/GWS Red Mountain Inn Lighting retrofit / refrigerator $1,361 $400/GWS RFSD – Sopris Elementary Lighting retrofit $1,650 $825/GWS Stewart Title Co. Lighting retrofit $4,125 $2,680/GWS Valero Lighting retrofit $2,600 $1,300/GWS Vic’s Route 6 Grillhouse Lighting retrofit $1,216 $790/GWS Zendt Properties Lighting retrofit $5,079 $3,000/GWS Wood Nichols Lighting retrofit $797 Mary’s Spirits Lighting retrofit / EC Motors $845 Colorado Mountain College Lighting retrofit $1,836 $1,211/GWS Sunsense Solar Lighting retrofit $5,200 Rifle Creek Museum Lighting retrofit $20,515 $2,500/SEP Grand Valley Methodist Church Furnaces / heat pump $10,050 $2,500/SEP


Commercial building walk-‐throughs by GCE Energy Coaches Commercial walk-throughs: 49 Zip code / town Date Project launched Q1: 7 walk-throughs Springs Condominium Assoc. 81601- Glenwood Springs

Ongoing visits

2013-2014 Yes

Sunsense Solar 81623 - Carbondale 1/7/2014 Yes - completed Roaring Fork Beer Company 81623 - Carbondale 2/4/2014 No Artilluma Dance Studio 81650 - Rifle 2/12/2014 Yes-completed Lawrence Family Investments 81652 - Silt 2/14/2014 Yes-completed U.S. Forest Service 81601 – Glenwood Springs 2/19/2014 Yes-completed St. Stephen Catholic Church 81601 – Glenwood Springs 3/25/2014 Yes Q2: 14 walk-throughs Distinguished Boards & Beams 81623 – Carbondale 4/9/2014 No Two Rivers Community School 81601 – Glenwood Springs 4/17/2014 Yes-completed Red Mountain Inn 81601 – Glenwood Springs 4/17/2014 Yes - completed Starbright Laundromat 81601 – Glenwood Springs 4/18/2014 No Wood Nichols 81623 – Carbondale 4/21/2014 Yes - completed Grand Tamarac 81601 – Glenwood Springs 5/7/2014 Yes Action Auto Collision 81601 – Glenwood Springs 5/14/2014 Yes - completed Grease Monkey 81601 – Glenwood Springs 5/21/2014 Yes-completed Alpine Bank Central Ops 81650 – Rifle 5/22/2014 Yes-completed Hospice of the Valley 81601 – Glenwood Springs 6/18/2014 Yes Executive Plaza 81601 – Glenwood Springs 6/25/2014 Yes Grand Valley Fire District 81635 – Parachute 6/26/2014 Yes-completed Grand Valley Methodist Church 81635 – Parachute 6/26/2014 Yes Second Time Around 81635 – Parachute 6/26/2014 No Q3: 6 walk-throughs Glenwood Caverns Adventure 81601 – Glenwood Springs 7/5/2014 Yes John A. Virgili 81601 – Glenwood Springs 7/9/2014 Yes Hyland Park Square 81601 – Glenwood Springs 7/22/2014 Yes Treadz 81601 – Glenwood Springs 9/3/2014 Yes High Tails Dog & Cat Outfitters 81601 - Glenwood Springs 9/17/2014 Yes Fine Things 81601 – Glenwood Springs 9/17/2014 No Fiesta Guadalajara 81601 – Glenwood Springs 7/21/2014 No Q4: 22 walk-throughs Alpine Bank – Central Ops 81650 - Rifle 10/1/2014 Yes - completed Holliday House HOA 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/8/2014 Yes - completed European Auto Werks 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/8/2014 Yes Terrace Condominiums 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/15/2014 Yes Grace Healthcare 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/29/2014 No Taylor House Condominiums 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/30/2014 Yes Caravan Inn 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/31/2014 Yes Red Mountain Inn 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/31/2014 Yes - completed Vicki Lee Green Realtors 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/31/2014 Yes Vic’s Route 6 Grillhouse 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/31/2014 Yes - completed Charcoalburger 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/31/2014 Yes Domino’s Pizza 81601 – Glenwood Springs 11/19/2014 Yes - completed


Commercial walk-throughs Zip code / town Date Project launched Rood Depot 81650 – Rifle 11/19/2014 Yes Climate Control Company 81601 – Glenwood Springs 11/20/2014 Yes - completed Mountain Valley Devel. Services 81652 – Silt 12/5/2014 No CMC – Lappala Center 81623 - Carbondale 10/8/2014 Yes CMC – Central Services 81601 - Glenwood Springs 10/8/2014 Yes CMC – Glenwood Center 81601 - Glenwood Springs 10/15/2014 Yes - completed CMC – Spring Valley 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/22/2014 Yes CMC – Sopris Hall 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/15/2014 Yes CMC – Encana Academic Center 81650 – Rifle 10/8/2014 Yes CMC – Calaway Academic Bldg. 81601 – Glenwood Springs 10/22/2014 Yes 5. Clean energy services benefitting all partners

Training and workshops • Q1: Utility Rebate Workshop and Trade Show held Feb. 13 at Glenwood Springs

Community Center • Q2: Solar Energy Finance Workshop for Local Governments and Special Districts held

April 7 at Rifle Library • Q4: Facility Managers Roundtable, held Oct. 1 at CMC Glenwood Springs • Q4: Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators Roundtable, held Nov. 19 at Glenwood

Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant Garfield Clean Energy policy • Energy Savings Reinvestment policy: adopted August 2014 • No new policies approved Q4. State-‐level policy • DOLA Rolling Stock policy amendment for alternative fuel vehicles, leads to $20 million

DOLA Alternative Fuels Initiative. • Xcel Energy held to existing energy efficiency goals for customer programs by PUC. • Board support of House Bill 1326, expanding state tax credits for private-‐sector

purchases of alternative fuel vehicles. • Assistance to legislators on local energy performance contracting experience for

development of SB 186. • Collaboration with Colorado-‐Wyoming Petroleum Marketers Association on potential

legislative or regulatory solution to electric utility demand charges for CNG stations. • GCE “State Legislature” webpage tracked 24 bills related to economic development,

financing, alternative fuel vehicles, renewable energy, utilities and active transportation.

Rebate funding • CLEER obtained a $40,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and

Environment’s Supplemental Environmental Program (SEP). This money is funding energy efficiency bonus rebates for households and businesses in western Garfield


County, along with marketing and administration. The $33,000 allocated for rebates was fully used by Dec. 31, 2014.

• CLEER obtained a second SEP grant for $44,500 from CDPHE. This money will be used for a 2015 program to provide free home visits from energy coaches and free energy efficiency upgrades for 27 low-‐income homeowners. Additional funding from the Town of Carbondale will cover 30 households in that community. Energy Outreach Colorado will handle income qualification paperwork for recipients. All four energy utilities serving Garfield County – Xcel Energy, Holy Cross Energy, Glenwood Springs Electric and SourceGas – are adding rebate funding to the program. Outreach to potential recipients will begin in January.

Radon testing kits • CLEER’s office serves as the Carbondale-‐area distribution point for home radon testing

kits for Garfield County Environmental Health. CLEER distributed 13 kits to residents in Q4 and 39 total in 2014.

6. Renewable energy

Notes on renewable energy production (1) Percentage figures are the 2014 averages for percent of total building electrical energy use offset by solar PV. (2) Rifle City Hall solar array output started in July 2014. (3) City of Rifle Wastewater Treatment Plant solar array is not shown here because it is off the charts, producing 2.9 million kWh in 2014, which is 198% of the facility’s usage. Renewable energy projects • Silt Water Treatment Plant Solar Array. Work began Nov. 3 on installation of a 233-‐

kilowatt array. The project was set for completion by year-‐end. (Actual completion date is Jan. 8.) The array will power 100% of the plant’s annual electric demand. Financed by a power purchase agreement (PPA) with an upfront fee of $3,500, the plant will save the town an estimated $102,000 over 20 years, or about 15 percent of total plant electric costs. A ribbon-‐cutting event is planned for Jan. 22. The project grew out of a Garfield Clean Energy workshop hosted in April, with follow-‐up energy coaching.


• The Battlement Mesa Metro District is under contract for a 436-‐kilowatt solar array for its water treatment plant. Construction will begin January as weather permits. Also financed by a PPA, the array will save an estimated $202,000 over the next 20 years, and generate enough power to offset the plant’s annual electric use by 100 percent. Matthew Shmigelsky continues to provide ongoing coaching and technical assistance on this project.

• The Roaring Fork School District is under contract for a 379-‐kilowatt array at Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale. It is currently slated for completion at the end of June.

• Economic development: All three projects are being installed by Sunsense Solar of Carbondale. The combined contracts are worth $2.3 million. Of this amount, $1 million will be directly invested in the local economy for wages, subcontractors, equipment rental and purchased supplies.

Renewable energy coaching • Matthew Shmigelsky and Mike Ogburn continued work with New Castle to analyze and

evaluate the possibility of buying the Public Works solar array from the PPA financer, Hybrid Energy Group, and presented the findings to Tom Baker.

• Matthew continued to provide technical assistance to the Grand River Hospital District to explore a solar array at the district’s new clinic in Battlement Mesa. This project is ongoing.

• Mike advised RFTA on technical and financial items to consider in the lease-‐purchase of 2,259 solar panels in a new solar garden being developed at the old Carbondale Landfill site by Clean Energy Collective, under contract with Holy Cross Energy.

• Matthew met with Alpine Bank officials to discuss a locally-‐based third-‐party solar financing model. This model is being used to finance RFTA’s purchase of solar energy in the item above. If this proves successful, Alpine Bank may offer this financing to a wider customer base.

• Matthew met with CMC solar instructor Chris Ellis to discuss potential for solar training at CMC campuses in Garfield County.

• Mike used Navigator readings to confirm that requests to Xcel Energy from both Town of Carbondale and City of Rifle for a rate switch on buildings with newly-‐installed solar arrays had not taken effect. Mike conferred with system installers and the town finance directors to prompt a renewed request for the rate switch. Xcel gave Town of Carbondale a $7,600 refund. Xcel Energy has not yet responded to the City of Rifle’s request.

• Matthew met with CORE to discuss that organization’s rebate offer for hydropower projects in 2015. Rebates would be available in the 81623 and 81601 zips.


7. Active Energy Management services for partner buildings and facilities Garfield Building Energy Navigator Partner buildings on Navigator: 100 48 with monthly data 52 with live data, including 1 new addition in Q4: • Silt Water Treatment Plant (screen shot at right) Researched potential cost savings for Navigator operations by having GCE partners enter utility bill data into spreadsheet templates. Savings would be as high as $5,600 per year, after paying a one-‐time $1,200 set-‐up fee. GCE board asked CLEER to seek grant funding for the set-‐up fee. CLEER also attended a webinar by a bill data entry provider, EnergyPrint, to see if a lower-‐cost option is available. This company’s offer would not deliver any savings over the current provider, UMS. Navigator website usage, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2014, according to Google Analytics Total visits: 16,103 New visits: 5.3% Unique visitors: 928 Returning visitors: 94.7% Page views: 19,558 Average time on site: 1 min. 21 sec. Tablet/smartphone visits: 122 / 0.7% All partners • Monthly monitoring of Navigator data for all partner buildings to watch for unusual

energy usage and other trends. • Carried out monthly bill processing and uploading to the Navigator website. • Continued work on Building Energy Navigator Installation Manual. Partner-‐specific services in Q4 Note: Extensive Active Energy Management coaching services were devoted to Colorado Mountain College in Q3 and Q4, using funding from CMC’s membership in GCE and a separate contract for campuses outside Garfield County. Energy coaches had less time than normal to actively seek out service opportunities with other partners. Garfield County • Attended BOCC work session with FD International regarding Facilities Master Plan

efforts. • Worked with county staff and Xcel Energy to negotiate rebate for lighting upgrade at

Landfill operations building. • Conducted building walk-‐through at County Jail, and supplied a spreadsheet for jail staff

to tally lighting fixtures to prepare for an LED retrofit. (Continued next page.)


• Culled unnecessary bills from Garfield County’s batch PDFs for accounts not tracked on Navigator. This saves GCE $7.50 for every culled bill, minus the time spent culling.

• Presented on two topics -‐-‐ public health aspects of CNG and electric vehicles, and on how governments are using Building Energy Navigator to save energy -‐-‐ for a regional meeting of the Western Colorado Association of Environmental Health Officers, hosted by Garfield County Environmental Health Dept.

Carbondale • Reset data logger at Carbondale Recreation Center. • Reviewed energy data from Wastewater Treatment Plant showing 40% savings

following recent process adjustments. Sent advisory note to town officials highlighting the success.

Glenwood Springs • Worked with city staff to Community Center staff to get the Navigator data for the Ice

Rink back online following a remodel of the lobby and locker rooms.

New Castle • Contacted town manager about high energy use observed at Wastewater Treatment

Plant. • Continued to analyze options for buying Public Works solar array from the PPA

financer, Hybrid Energy Group, and consulted with town staff on financial aspects. • Continued discussion about seeking a grant for public electric vehicle charging station.

Silt • Managed installation of a live data logger at the Silt Water Treatment Plant, taking

advantage of on-‐site electrician expertise during the installation of the solar PV array. Ordered needed equipment, conferred with solar installer, and made two trips to the site to install and connect the equipment. The Water Treatment Plant has not had a live data monitor prior to this time. Access to live energy data will give plant operators a new tool in adjusting processes to achieve energy savings.

• Discussed potential lighting and heating upgrades at Water Treatment Plant with public works director.

• Continued work with town staff on Town Hall efficiency upgrades and boiler replacement, including available rebates from Xcel and DOLA grant potential. Project is still pending.

Rifle • Analyzed Navigator readings to confirm that the city’s request to Xcel for a rate switch

on buildings with newly installed solar arrays had not taken effect. Conferred with system installers and town staff to prompt a renewed request for the rate switch and possible refund.

• Continued discussion about obtaining a grant for public electric vehicle charging station.


Parachute • Conducted initial site feasibility with Sunsense for solar PV array to power the Water

Treatment Plant using Xcel Energy’s PPA program. Current site is not large enough; an adjacent parcel could host the array but is not owned by the town.

RFTA • Summarized 2014 activities in report for RFTA Board. • Advised RFTA on technical and financial items to consider in the lease-‐purchase of

2,259 solar panels in a new solar garden being developed at the old Carbondale Landfill site by Clean Energy Collective, under contract with Holy Cross Energy. Attended a RFTA board meeting and answered board questions on how Navigator could be used to track electric production from RFTA’s share of the solar garden.

Garfield Public Library District • Hid Navigator home page buttons connected to old Silt and Carbondale libraries. • Conferred with Jerry Morris about fixing Navigator data feed outage at Rifle Library

following server overhaul. • Relayed utility bill spreadsheets of past utility bill data collected by Jerry Morris to UMS,

bringing bill data up to date for all six libraries. • Conferred with UMS and Jerry Morris to develop means of tracking libraries’ solar

production on Xcel Energy bills. Colorado Mountain College • Reviewed results of Rifle campus shut-‐down tests done in September. • Advised Rifle facility manager on LED lighting upgrade and coordinated with Xcel

Energy to capture maximum rebates. • Conducted walk-‐throughs of seven buildings at CMC campuses in Glenwood Springs,

Spring Valley and Carbondale. Customized the GCE building walk-‐through checklist to match CMC’s adopted energy policy.

• Worked with CMC staff to develop HVAC zone maps for buildings. • Developed building energy reports for each campus. Evaluated building envelope and

HVAC systems and other energy-‐using equipment, such as vending machines and lighting. Identified no-‐cost and low-‐cost operational changes and needed capital upgrades, and discussed findings with CMC facilities staff.

• Provided advice on organization-‐wide energy efficiency goals. Participated in frequent meetings and check-‐in calls to keep process moving forward and meet CMC goals.


8. Petroleum Independence Project Active Transportation: 2014 Bike and Walk to School Challenge • No activity this quarter. This project was completed in Q2. Western Slope CNG Collaborative • Although the Garfield County FMLD awarded a $25,000 grant to GCE for its CNG work,

terms of the grant award were not aligning with the program. After extensive discussions, the GCE Board voted to decline the grant award. As a result, minimal work in the area was planned for the remainder of 2014.

• One conference call was held on Nov. 13 to provide an outlook for CNG activity in 2015. This included work by Garfield Clean Energy through the Western Slope CNG Collaborative, the Glenwood Springs CNG fueling station to be developed in 2015, efforts to reopen a CNG fueling station in Rifle, and collaboration with CNG efforts in Durango, Grand Junction, Craig and Steamboat Springs.

Electric vehicles The EV Rally of the Rockies was held on Oct. 3. The point was to demonstrate that electric-‐powered passenger cars can cover long distances on western Colorado’s scenic highways, thanks to the growing network of free public electric vehicle charging stations. Stories and photos from the rally ran on the front pages of the Grand Junction Daily

Sentinel, the Glenwood Springs Post Independent and the Vail Daily, and the Associated Press picked up the Sentinel’s story, which appeared across the country. CLEER staff recruited EV owners to drive in the rally, planned the route and calculated the itinerary. The event involved eight electric cars driving 300 miles on electric power, plus five launch events, three ribbon-‐cuttings and one finish line party. Drivers headed out from Grand Junction, Parachute, and Vail for a fall colors tour along I-‐70, stopping to charge in Glenwood Springs, while drivers from Snowmass Village and Aspen headed down

Highway 82, with a stop for a ribbon-‐cutting in Basalt. A finish line party was held in the CMC Lappala Center parking lot in Carbondale.


A package of handouts were distributed at all the events: the “Case for EVs” fact sheet, an EV charging station map and list for western Colorado, and a table comparing various features of 10 EV models now on the market. CLEER coordinated with city and town staff in Grand Junction, Parachute, Snowmass Village, Aspen and Vail to hold launch events, and with CMC to host the finish line event in Carbondale. Ribbon-‐cutting events for new EV charging stations were held in Snowmass Village, Aspen and Basalt. GCE Board Chair Allyn Harvey was a featured speaker at the events in Aspen and Carbondale. A class of students from the CMC Isaacson School for New Media also participated, sending students on each leg of the rally to capture video and audio for a documentary. 9. Case studies, fact sheets, outreach and website Case studies and fact sheets 1st Quarter • Residential: Pink Palace, multi-‐family apartment house in Glenwood Springs (Published

in the Post Independent on March 15, 2014) • Commercial: Professional Auto Body 2nd Quarter • Homeowners use Revolving Loan Fund to cover upfront costs of energy upgrades • Four Smart Steps to a Cool Home 3rd Quarter • Commercial: Roaring Fork Liquors (Published in the Post Independent on Aug. 13,

2014)

4th Quarter • Churches use energy efficiency to be good stewards (Published in Glenwood Springs

Post Independent on Dec. 21, 2014, and posted to GCE website as a new page for “Houses of Worship.” This story was also picked up by the Associated Press and appeared in newspapers across the country during the holiday season.)

• Repairs after house fire cut energy bills in half (Published in Glenwood Springs Post Independent on Dec. 28, 2014.)

• Energy Coach Hot Tips: o Do It Yourself Winter Energy Upgrades (Published in Glenwood Springs Post

Independent special fall home and garden section) o Heat Tape Timer o Light Up the Night (Gift ideas of solar-‐powered portable lights)

Community outreach • “Do 5 Things to Save Energy,” held at Carbondale Library Oct. 4.


Website usage, January 1 to December 31, 2014, according to Google Analytics Total visits: 18,645 Top 6 pages (based on unique-user page views) Unique visitors: 15,080 Residential heat tape: 28% Tablet/smartphone visits: 4,817 / 26% Home page: 16% Page views: 30,337 Residential rebates “Get Started” page: 4% New visits: 80% Electric vehicles: 4% Returning visitors: 20% Commercial rebates “Get Started” page: 2% Average time on each page: 1 min. 10 sec. Residential Revolving Loan Fund page: 2% Google Analytics chart of daily website usage, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2014

Google Analytics chart of weekly website usage, Oct. 1, 2009, to Dec. 31, 2014

Online forms CLEER has subscribed to Formstack, an online form hosting service. Form page usage for 2014, according to Google Analytics Form name Unique page views Ave. time on page Residential rebate application 285 2 min. 58 sec. Commercial enrollment 136 5 min. 33 sec. CNG letter for Glenwood station 39 4 min. 1 sec. Glenwood solar pre-approval 37 3 min. 11 sec. Glenwood LED rebate 32 1 min. 34 sec.


Media coverage YTD earned media: 60 articles, 2 editorials, 7 briefs; 69 total 4th Quarter earned media: 20 articles Q4 Media coverage Q4 article topics Sopris Sun: 1 story EV Rally Post Independent: 5 stories EV Rally, BizOpoly presentation, 10 Garfield churches, Silt water

plant solar, House fire results in energy efficiency Aspen Daily News, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, KAJX, Green Biz.com, RealVail.com, Vail Daily, Aspen Times

EV Rally, 11 stories total

Associated Press: 2 stories picked up and distributed nationwide

“Electric cars buzz mountains to tout tourism use” and “Colorado churches say amen to energy savings”

Rifle Citizen Telegram: 1 story Silt water plant solar 10. Program management Ongoing coordination, management of all services, programs • Organized and prepared materials for October, November and December GCE board

meetings, took notes and wrote up meeting minutes, posted board documents to GCE website and stored hard copies in GCE binders.

• Gathered data and prepared 3rd Quarter report. • Worked with board to develop final 2015 budget and amended 2014 budget. • Responded to questions about GCE funding from Garfield County staff and

commissioners, prepared summary PowerPoint on GCE programs and services and presented at a special meeting with the Garfield BOCC on Nov. 12. Participated in follow-‐up meeting on Nov. 24 with Garfield FMLD Board.

11. Credit Reserve Fund reporting Reporting to DOE and Boulder County in Residential Revolving Loan Fund • Gathered information on loans in the Residential Revolving Loan Fund and submitted

3rd Quarter 2014 report and year-‐end annual report to DOE. • Entered and updated loan information in SalesForce. • Participated in quarterly check-‐in call with DOE, Boulder and Denver.

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