EcoMotion has been selected by East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) — the public power provider in Alameda County and the City of Tracy — to support its Energy Resilient Municipal Facilities project. Through this effort, EBCE is partnering with its Joint Power Authority member agencies — including 14 cities plus the unincorporated area of Alameda County — to make municipal facilities designated to serve the community in times of emergency more resilient against power grid outages.

For the last 1.5 years, the consulting firm ARUP has worked with EBCE to evaluate its members’ municipal facilities for energy resilience. ARUP assessed the potential of solar and storage at ~300 sites, with the goal of providing up to five days of resilience in the event of an outage. ARUP and EBCE then prioritized ~150 sites for project development.

EcoMotion has been brought on board to support EBCE and ARUP. We are thrilled to be part of the team. Together we will validate the spatial and financial assessments of the facilities. EcoMotion will then support the procurement process by developing specific scopes of work for implementation. Portfolios of projects will then be shopped out to the private sector for financing, installation, and operations.

For this project, EcoMotion has partnered with three firms: Point Energy Innovations is our electrical engineering firm, KPFF is our structural engineering firm, and Blues Roofing is our rooftop evaluation partner. Together we will provide the due diligence intended to increase lenders’ confidence and thus to drive down capital costs and, ultimately, PPA rates for the solar and storage systems. EcoMotion’s first phase of work will be in the City of Berkeley.

EcoMotion is supporting a similar effort on behalf of Clean Power Alliance, the Power Ready program, in Southern California.