Forming Your Team

1. California
Local Energy Assurance Planning
(CaLEAP)
Forming Your Energy Assurance Team
California Energy Commission

2. Primary Goals Today
• Provide needed technical support for forming your new energy assurance
team by relaying lessons learned and advice from other local governments
that have implemented, or are implementing, energy assurance plans
• Provide insight into the unique aspects of energy assurance planning
teams versus other teams

3. Energy Assurance Planning Is Unique…
– Considerable interaction with local gas, water, waste water and
electric utilities
– Can be a stand alone plan or an Annex to an existing plan
– Necessary interaction with fuel suppliers in the private sector
– Overlap with many government planning entities including emergency
planning, general planning, hazard mitigation and public works
personnel
– Requires knowledge of essential government services and key assets
– A champion is needed since it is a voluntary program
– Regional cooperation is very important
– Extensive collaboration between the public and private sector and
often new partners (Red Cross, big box retailers, etc.)

4. Methodology

5. Forming Your Team: Identifying Your
EAP Working Group
–Local government representatives such as emergency management, general
services, communications/IT and other areas
–Non-governmental local community representatives including public,
private, non-profit, individuals, schools and neighborhood groups
–Regional organizations such as Councils of Governments (COGs) and
counties
– State-level energy assurance expertise (California has a State Energy
Assurance Plan under development)
–Generally, subject matter experts such as energy, water and other utility
representatives

6. City of Aurora, Colorado
Porter Ingrum
Airport Noise Coordinator/Environmental Planner
- Discussing the purpose and lifespan of the EAP Working Group early in
the process
- Roles and expectations of the EAP Working Group
- The EAP champion and the Working Group

7. Virginia Beach, Virginia
– Primarily from city departments and agencies who work within the City’s
emergency management organization
– Seven members are from the Office of Emergency Management, and two
are private energy stakeholders
– A Joint Energy Committee reviews the Energy Assurance Investment
Strategy on a quarterly basis, and updates the Plan on an annual basis as
Energy Assurance capital investments and policy changes are made

8. Contacts
• Andy Petrow, ICF- Project Manager
apetrow@icfi.com
(818) 294-5472
• Ronda Mosley, PTI- Deputy Project Manager
rmosley@pti.org
(937) 667-4142