The meeting opened with the Clean Energy Advisory Committee addressing agenda items including a presentation on a proposed Clean Fuels Coalition, an update on Duke Energy's carbon plan, a review of energy efficiency in municipal buildings, and a comparison of clean energy goals from other cities. Later in the meeting, the MSD Advisory Committee convened to discuss officer elections and the sale of an MSD truck. The meeting was held via Zoom and in-person at an unspecified location.
Hey Andrea, thanks for joining. Yep. Good. Hey Sean, thanks for joining in. I know you had uh some some meetings and stuff, so appreciate you joining. Yeah, no problem. It uh got postponed until tomorrow, so it's one o'clock. So we'll call this meeting of the Clean Energy Advisory Committee to order. Um call. Andrew then. Present. Thanks, Evan Folds, Jessica Cannon, Lindsay Hallett, Alan Waxler, PJ Klein, President, Richard Smith, President, John Tullivan, present present. All right. Um first item on the agenda is approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion? I'm gonna have to approve the minutes. I second. Excellent. And because we have people online I can go back through. Okay. Um Andrea Bennett, motion is to approve for anyone online. I think Smith. All right, so um we just wanted to mention that we have you know four other items today. We had like an approximate amount of time that we wanted to focus on them because really item number four is something that we as the advisory committee asked of um Dave David, and so they've worked really hard on putting that together for us and something we need to focus on so we can advise moving forward. Um, but we are gonna have um in just a few minutes to talk with NCL cities. We're gonna just review that carbon plan, I'm sure everyone's heard it all about, and then we'll end this meeting um looking at other cities and their clean energy goals, which is also something that we asked of them. And I'm sure Andrea did a lot of work for that too, but um so with that being said, I will hand the meeting over. Yeah, uh Alric, um we'll go ahead and hand it over to you. Um one quick introduction though, um here. We also have uh John Fortune that is our our fleet manager, so why don't you all have the opportunity to meet him as well. And um yeah, I think he'll be interested in hearing what Alric from Clean Cities Fuel uh has to say as well. So um Alric, yeah, hand it over to you. Thanks very much. Okay, um thank you, David, and uh thank you uh Clean Energy Advisory Committee uh for allowing me the opportunity to do a presentation on the Clean Cities Coalition initiatives uh as well as discuss um some of the opportunities that and some of the technical assistance as well as resources that the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center can provide. And so briefly uh I'm gonna start with the background of the whole Clean Cities Coalition uh and then lead into um some of the the uh goals of the coalition uh as we see it um and the formation of a fourth clean fuels coalition and then um touch on how the center can actually be able to help you all out with uh resources uh that would potentially be mutually beneficial. And so um, and given the background of the Clean Cities Coalition, so the Clean Cities Coalition it really uh came into existence about 1988 uh as an effort to really uh try to displace petroleum uh gas consumption and to be able to improve air quality. And then so um with these measures, it was a spinoff to the Energy Policy Act of 1992. And then so clean cities officially became came into existence in 1993. And uh the basis of it is is to be able to uh as I said improve air quality through the reduction of gasoline and uh diesel consumption and displace that with um initiatives for alternative fuel uh vehicle, albeit uh assistance coordination of identifying mutual interests and commonalities, um, and looking at advanced transportation technologies that would be able to improve air quality. And then so uh as of I would say um a few years ago, 2016, the whole Clean Cities effort had reduced about 7.5 billion, and that's with the B gallons of petroleum and diesel consumption. And this is done through having about uh roughly roughly as of present, 75 clean cities chapters. And the clean cities chapters, they are located throughout the country, and uh there are about 75, and there can uh be whole states that are considered a clean cities coalition. There can be um whole counties that are considered clean cities coalitions, but in the the case of uh North Carolina, North Carolina has council of governments or more so metropolitan areas that currently represent Clean Cities chapters, and those only account for 20 or 21 of the hundred counties within the North Carolina system. And so um with the case of the North Carolina Collegiate Technology Center, we are requesting to form an additional fourth clean fuels coalition. And it's a little bit of a difference in distinction between clean cities and clean fuels. And the difference in distinction is that we are forming this additional fourth clean fuels coalition so that we can be able to provide technical assistance, education uh and outreach opportunities, trainings, uh funding opportunities, vehicle demonstrations, uh as well as other components to rural and underserved communities within all of eastern North Carolina, within all of Northeastern North Carolina and all of central North Carolina. And we consider it imperative to be able to uh have these funding opportunities or just uh have these trainings uh in these areas so that we can be able to uh bring to the table into the forefront these type of opportunities that are specifically designated with U.S. Department of Energy initiatives. Um, because without these areas being affiliated with a Clean Cities chapter, um one probably will not have heard of these different funding opportunities, and two, if you cannot, or if you have not heard of them, cannot apply for these funding sources. And so uh we would be the uh the ones that would actually be driving the trainings within these areas, and um as we would be the the um overseers or or as you USDOE actually provided us um the funds, we would allocate those funds to in turn in trainings, um albeit with whatever local stakeholders and local citizens saw that that would be um imperative to their specific region.