DATE: December 10, 2015
TO: Council Sustainability Committee
FROM: Director of Utilities & Environmental Services
SUBJECT
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Briefing on the 2015 California Youth Energy Services Program
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the Committee reviews and comments on this report.
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SUMMARY
California Youth Energy Services (CYES) is a program that trains and employs young adults to provide energy and water conservation assessments and installations for local residents in their community, at no cost to the customer. The City of Hayward hosted CYES this past summer and this report provides an overview of the program structure and highlights the energy and water savings achieved as a result of the program.
BACKGROUND
Rising Sun Energy Center (Rising Sun) is a Bay Area nonprofit workforce development organization established in 1994. Through the East Bay Energy Watch Local Government Partnership with PG&E, Rising Sun has operated the CYES program, which trains and employs young adults to provide energy and water conservation assessments and installations to local residents at no cost to the customer. This service, called a Green House Call, is offered to both homeowners and renters, and checks homes for efficiency, installs equipment, and provides personalized recommendations for further savings. The City of Hayward has hosted CYES in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and most recently, in the summer of 2015.
Rising Sun operates the CYES program by setting up satellite offices in partner cities. The program commences with Rising Sun, along with the partner city, conducting a community marketing and outreach campaign in the spring to generate a list of interested residents that can be served by the summer program. Rising Sun also conducts a youth and manager recruitment campaign in the spring to hire local Youth Energy Specialists from the partner cities. Once staffed, the CYES program implem...
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