• Start year: 2013
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status:

The Baltimore Energy Challenge has started a Cool Roof outreach program to engage residents and businesses in not only learning about the benefit of reflective roof technologies, but also taking action to install cool roofs and reflective roof coatings. This is a three year program, funded at $100,000 per year

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

Create high-quality pedestrian- and transit-oriented neighborhoods

• Start year:
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status:

Benchmark and disclose energy performance and improvements of city-owned and privately-owned commercial, industrial, institutional buildings

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The City requires energy audits for city-owned and privately-owned, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings over 10,000 sq ft. Also requires retro-commissioning for city-owned and privately-owned, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings over 10,000 sq ft.

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: Completed

We are pleased to report that in 2012, Baltimore – the City government, businesses, institutions, community organizations and citizens – made important progress towards our Sustainability Plan goals. The annual report that follows provides specific measurements for and stories about the 29 Plan goals. Among the highlights in this year’s report are the following:
Energy usage across all sectors – City government, schools, and residential was down in 2012. City government reduced its electric kWh usage by over 4% in 2012, and reduced its natural gas usage by over 15%. City schools reduced their natural gas usage by over 27%. Residential electricity usage in the City decreased 13.1% from the 2007 baseline. Savings from these efforts across the City will help work toward achieving our energy reduction goals, as well as our greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. These savings also reflect cost savings for City government, schools and residences – all of which can be used for further energy retrofits or to help stabilize energy costs.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status:

Encourage co-generation installation for replacing inefficient boiler plants. City government will be doing CHP cogeneration at several facilities in next 5-10 years.

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status:

The Sustainability Plan lays out 29 priority goals within seven theme chapters: Cleanliness, Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, Greening, Transportation, Education & Awareness, and Green Economy. Each of the 29 goals is accompanied by a
set of recommended strategies.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The City is retrofitting street lights with LED bulbs to increase energy efficiency.

• Start year:
• Type: Regulatory
• Status: In operation

ADopt green building standards for new residential construction and major renovation

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: Completed

The CAP represents our commitment
to being a leader in sustainability, and improving the environment of our City. The CAP contains feasible measures to help our City reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and curb the effects of climate change on our city.

• Start year:
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: In operation

Implement a centralized fueling program and route optimization software

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status:

Over the next three years, the City's weatherization assistance program will be econducting furnace conversions from oil to natural gas.

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

We have recruited and trained over 300 Energy Captains, who in turn have helped us to recruit over 5000 program participants. We built a program website, available at www.baltimoreenergychallenge.org and designed and printed program literature, including lawn signs for participating households. We have distributed over 7000 pledge kits for our volunteers to give to participants. BEC neighborhood organizations have utilized a variety of outreach tactics and hosted a wide range of energy efficiency events around the city. Some examples include door-to-door canvassing, house meetings, volunteers speaking a community meetings, large scale community-wide events focused on energy efficiency, presentations at annual meetings, a presence at neighborhood resource fairs, articles in neighborhood newsletters, etc.
Based on the number of participants, the number of people who have received our materials, the number of event attendees, and the phone calls we receive, we are confident that we have reached a broad range of target neighborhood residents with relevant energy efficiency information, and that residents are continuing to communicate this information with their neighbors.

• Start year: 2013
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status:

Recognizing the City’s current vulnerability to the
impacts of severe hazard events, Baltimore has
undertaken a thorough, forward-thinking approach
to the hazard mitigation planning process. Baltimore’s
Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project (DP3) was
created by the Department of Planning as an effort to address existing hazards while simultaneously preparing for predicted hazards due to climate change. This project develops a program that integrates hazards mitigation planning, floodplain
mapping, and climate adaptation planning. DP3
links research, outreach, and actions to create a
comprehensive and new risk-preparedness system for addressing existing and future impacts.

• Start year: 2010
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status:

TreeBaltimore serves as the umbrella organization for all City agencies and private organizations in their effort to increase the tree canopy of Baltimore.