Title: Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) Presenter’s Name : Walter Kulyk Economy : United States

1. 35th APEC Transportation Working Group Bangkok, Thailand February 20-24, 2012 Title: Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) Presenter’s Name: Walter Kulyk Economy: United States

2. APEC AND THE WORLD 61% World Energy Consumption 64% World GHG Emissions 55% World GDP • Member Economies: • Australia • Brunei Darussalam • Canada • Chile • China • Hong Kong, China • Indonesia • Japan • Republic of Korea • Malaysia • Mexico • New Zealand • Papua New Guinea • Peru • The Philippines • Russia • Singapore • Chinese Taipei • Thailand • United States • Viet Nam APEC’s Share of Global Indicators Source: Energy Information Agency and International Monetary Fund

3. ENERGY SMART COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE (ESCI) • November 2010: U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan announce ESCI in conjunction with the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Yokohama. • Goal: ESCI aims to foster green growth, sustainable development and long-term job creation throughout the Asia-Pacific by demonstrating the practicality of clean energy technologies to reduce energy intensity and increase energy security • Method: Projects will focus on research, development and demonstration of new technologies, and on dissemination and sharing of best practices for deploying the technologies already available. APEC Energy and Economic Forecast Primary Energy Intensity Index 38% decline by 2030 expected under a Business as usual scenario Primary energy intensity accounts for total energy consumed by end-users and transformation losses Source: Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre

4. ESCI’S FOUR PILLARS Smart Transport Smart Buildings Smart Grids Smart Jobs Smart Communities

5. PROJECT PARTICIPATION Four pillars with fifteen projects currently under consideration, including cross-cutting measures • Smart Transport • ST-1:Energy-Efficient Urban Transport Network • ST-2: Energy-Efficient Freight Transport Network • ST-3:Electromobility Survey and Road Map • ST-4: Electric Vehicle Demonstrations • Smart Buildings • SB-1: Low Energy Buildings Network • SB-2: Materials Testing and Rating Centers • SB-3: Cool Roof Demonstrations • SB-4: Low Energy Window Demonstrations • Smart Grids • SG-1: Interoperability Survey and Road Map • SG-2: Smart Grid Test Bed Network • Smart Jobs • SJ-1: Energy Efficiency Training Curricula • SJ-2: Energy Efficiency School Curricula • SJ-3: Sister Schools Program • Cross-Cutting • LCMT: Low Carbon Model Town • KSP: Knowledge Sharing Platform

6. SMART TRANSPORT Energy-Efficient Urban Transport Network Energy-Efficient Freight Transport Network Electromobility Survey and Road Map Electric Vehicle Demonstrations Smart Transport

7. SMART TRANSPORT • Transportation accounts for 27% of total final energy consumption in APEC economies. • Smart Transportation will focus on reducing: • Travel times • Costs • Energy use • GHG emissions Transportation’s Share of Total Final Energy Consumed 27% Source: APEC Energy Overview 2010

8. SMART TRANSPORT: ENERGY-EFFICIENT URBAN TRANSPORT NETWORK • Reducing the time, energy, and carbon emissions associated with moving people from one place to another • Deliverables • Website on ESCI Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) and folder with examples of energy-efficient urban transport strategies in APEC • Analysis of best practices for bus rapid transit and transit oriented development, based on examples • Participating Economies • ● Australia ● Canada ● Indonesia ● Singapore ● Chinese Taipei ● United States (coordinator) • Coordinator: • Develop template for sharing information on energy-efficient urban transport strategies, including estimate of savings in • Cost • Energy use • Carbon emissions • Develop a system for sharing and posting the information and selecting best practices. • The American Public Transportation Association and the Center for Urban Transportation Research are collaborating to provide information to knowledge management center • Participants • Contribute examples of energy-efficient urban transport strategies in their respective economies, utilizing the standard template and providing additional detailed documentation for estimated savings. Example Systems Transit-oriented development Bus rapid transit Light rail Bike paths and walkways Congestion management

9. SMART TRANSPORT: ENERGY-EFFICIENT FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION NETWORK • Reducing the cost, energy use and the carbon footprint of • transporting goods among customers or between factory and market • Deliverables • Website on ESCI Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) and folder with examples of energy-efficient freight strategies across APEC • Analysis of best practices for freight logistics and intermodal freight for the region, based on examples • Participating Economies • ● Australia ● Indonesia ● Chinese Taipei • ● United States (coordinator) • Coordinator • Develop template for sharing information on energy-efficient freight strategies, including estimate of savings in • Cost • Energy use • Carbon emissions • Develop a system for sharing and posting the information and selecting best practices. • The National Center for Intermodal Transportation is developing information to provide to knowledge management center • Participants • Contribute examples of energy-efficient freight strategies in their respective economies, utilizing the standard template and providing additional detailed documentation for estimated savings. Example Methods Logistical strategies to raise the load factors of transport vehicles Intermodal strategies to shift freight from trucks to railroads, ships and barges

10. SMART TRANSPORT: ELECTROMOBILITY SURVEY AND ROADMAP • Establishing networks of charging stations for electric vehicles, • which use less energy and emit less carbon while reducing reliance on foreign oil • Deliverables • Website on ESCI Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) with compendium of strategies for electric vehicle charging infrastructure • Assessment of best practices for boosting electric vehicle markets through infrastructure expansion • Participating Economies • ● Australia ● Canada (coordinator) ● Hong Kong, China ● Indonesia ● Japan ● Malaysia ● Singapore ● Chinese Taipei • ● United States • Coordinator • Develop template for sharing information on strategies for expansion of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. • Develop a system for posting the information and selecting best practices. • Participants • Contribute examples of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and assessments how the infrastructure will promote expansion of electric vehicle markets.

11. SMART TRANSPORT: ELECTRIC VEHICLE DEMONSTRATIONS • Demonstrating advanced electric vehicle technologies that increase driving range, • reduce charging times, enhance performance, and improve energy efficiency • Deliverables • Consistent database of information on electric vehicle technologies available within APEC • Participating Economies • ● Canada ● Indonesia ● Japan (co-coordinator) • ● Malaysia ● The Philippines ● Chinese Taipei • ● United States (co-coordinator) • Coordinators • Develop a template for sharing information on electric vehicle demonstration projects, including an estimate of improvements • Range • Charging time • Performance • Efficiency • Develop a system for posting the information and selecting best practices. Participants Document electric vehicle demonstration projects in their respective economies, utilizing the standard template and providing additional detailed documentation for the estimated improvements in vehicle driving range, charging time, performance, and fuel efficiency.

12. SMART BUILDINGS Low-Energy Buildings Network Materials Testing and Ratings Centers Cool Roof Demonstrations Low Energy Window Demonstrations Smart Buildings

13. SMART GRIDS Interoperability Survey And Road Map Smart Grid Test Bed Network Smart Grids

14. SMART JOBS Energy Efficiency Training Curricula Energy Efficiency School Curricula Sister Schools Program Smart Jobs

15. CROSS-CUTTING Low Carbon Model Towns Knowledge Sharing Platform

16. LOW CARBON MODEL TOWNS (LCMT) • Combining energy-efficient buildings, transport, and power grids to create communities • that affordably reduce energy use and carbon emissions while creating jobs • Deliverables • Survey of LCMTs in APEC • Website on ESCI Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) and folder with descriptions of how smart transport, smart buildings and smart grids work together in LCMTs to reduce carbon emissions • Feasibility studies to encourage creation of low-carbon communities in urban development plans • Recommendations for measures that can be taken to reduce carbon emissions in all APEC communities • Participating Economies • ● Australia ● Canada ● China (co-coordinator) ● Indonesia • ● Japan (co-coordinator) ● Malaysia ● The Philippines • ● Chinese Taipei ● United States • Coordinator • Develop a template for sharing information on LCMTs, including estimate of savings • Cost • Energy use • Carbon emissions • Develop a system for sharing and posting the information, and highlighting best practices. • Analyze LCMTs selected in survey and provide recommendations for specific measures that can be taken to reduce carbon emissions. Participants Contribute examples of LCMTs in their respective economies, utilizing the standard template. Provide additional detailed documentation for estimated savings related to smart transport, smart buildings, and smart grids.

17. KNOWLEDGE SHARING PLATFORM (KSP) • Gathering data and information collected by ESCI projects and • presenting them in a web-based knowledge management center • Deliverables • Website with data on all ESCI projects • Participating Economies • ● Australia ● Brunei Darussalam ● Canada ● China • ● Hong Kong, China ● Indonesia ● Japan • ● Republic of Korea ● Malaysia ● Mexico ● The Philippines • ● Russia ● Singapore ● Chinese Taipei (co-coordinator) • ● Thailand ● United States (co-coordinator) • Coordinators • Develop a web-based knowledge management center that will host and share each of the ESCI projects and related data. • Ensure that information and information gathering practices are done in a uniform and consistent way. • Work with project coordinators to obtain data in a timely and thorough manner. • Participants • Contribute data and information to the KSP through its participation in the various ESCI projects.

18. Next Steps for Transportation Working Group • Gather data and information on ESCI projects and • present them to a web-based knowledge management center • Individual economies provide information on Energy-Efficient Urban Transport Network and on Energy-Efficient Freight Transport Network to U.S. Coordinators • U.S. Coordinator for Energy-Efficient Urban Transport Network is Walter Kulyk , Chair, Intermodal & ITS Experts Group. He is working closely with the American Public Transportation Association and the Center for Urban Transportation Research • U.S. Coordinator for Energy-Efficient Freight Transport is Patrick Sherry, Director of the National Center for Intermodal Transportation • Participating Economies • ● Australia ● Canada ● Indonesia ● Japan • ● Singapore ● Chinese Taipei ● United States