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Fiscal Year 2007
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Improved Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection. The Energy Office is currently engaged in 3 Energy Performance Project initiatives that will have significant financial and environmental benefits to the city. The initiatives are aimed at converting incandescent traffic lights to LED traffic lights, installing energy efficient lighting in 16 city buildings, and utilizing excess digester gas to generate electricity for Black River WWTP. Collectively, these three initiatives will yield $2,900,000 in annual savings to the city. In addition to this the environmental benefit is equivalent to removing 23,527 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, planting 11,752 acres of trees, or removing 8,588 old cars from the roads.
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Additional Energy Savings. Outside of the Energy Performance Project, the Energy Office is currently working on the following projects: Five Energy Performance Contracts on behalf of the Baltimore City Public Schools System; Three Energy Performance Contracts (EPC) for 33 City buildings; and supervising utility billing reviews, which will lead to attaining credits to the city of about $650,000 in two years.
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Energy Awards. For their outstanding work the Energy Office has been recognized with several awards including the 2006 Energy Manager of the Year from the Association of Energy Engineers, the 2006 Green Leadership Award from the U.S. Green Building Council, and the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for Climate Protection from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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Improved Safety for City Vehicles. Utilization of new technologies such as ‘Drive-Cam’, which upon vehicle impact takes a photograph of the interior and exterior of the vehicle to eliminate false testimony and save city funds that were before used for lengthy liability cases.
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Right-of-Way Inspections. Over 2,300 inspections, since January of this year, of Right Of Way permit areas have led to 442 stop work orders being issued as opposed to 33 the same time last year improving daily flows of traffic and pedestrians through the city.
- Improved Street Cut Inspection. Began implementation of new street cut inspection group that will inspect all of the utility cuts throughout the city to improve the city's road surfaces.