Burbank Water and Powers Efficiency

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Burbank Water and Powers Efficiency
Conservation Programs

• A Presentation to the California Public Utilities
  Commission the Low-Income Oversight Board
  by Jeanette Meyer, BWP Marketing Manager
• January 17, 2007

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Beautiful Downtown Burbank

• 45,000 households 6,000 businesses
• BWP serves customers with water power
• Competitive rates, extremely high reliability
• Emphasis on resource saving programs

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Water Saving Programs

• High Efficiency Toilet Clothes Washer rebates
  CII rebates
• Landscaping classes Protector del Agua and
  Native Nights
• Weather-Based Irrigation Controllers
• Free water saving devices
• Water festival in May
• Drip Irrigation Kits

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Drip Kits

• Landscaping consumes 60 of household water use
• Awarded Bureau of Reclamation grant
• Rolled out program February 2006
• 512 attendees, 436 kits distributed
• Annual water savings 1,105,200 gallons
• Very staff intensive program

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Energy Saving Programs Residential

• Energy Star appliance rebates
• Shade trees
• Home Energy Analyzer
• Torchiere Exchange
• Solar Rebates
• Low-income refrigerator exchange
• Round-up program
• Multi-family home energy upgrades

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Energy Saving Programs Business

• Rebates for high-efficiency installations
• Audit/Install program
• Shade trees
• Wet Cleaning program
• Solar rebates
• LEEDS incentives
• Efficiency seminars

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Energy Saving Programs Schools

• Resource Conservation Manager
• LivingWise
• Shared Teacher Resource
• Solar Cup

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What to Offer and Funding

• Monthly meetings with counterparts
• SoCal-wide effort to ID cost-effective program
  options
• Water programs funded by MWD, BWP
• Electric programs funded by PBC