2009 Sacramento Sustainable Business of the Year Awards September 24, 2009 Sacramento Municipal Utility District Headquarters Sacramento, California page 1  page 2  page 3  page 4
Matt Mahood, CEO Sacramento MetroChamber Keynote Speaker	Clark Whitten, Division Director Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC)	Clifton Lewis, Manager of Customer Programs and Services Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
The Sacramento Sustainable Business Program is administered by the Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC), and promotes resource conservation and pollution prevention.  Each year, the top sustainable businesses are honored for their exceptional efforts in becomming the environmental leaders in the Sacramento River Watershed in Northern California.
	Leonard Robinson, Chief Deputy Director, DTSC Master of Ceremonies
Award Winner - Nancy Bui, SMUD Board of Directors	Award Winner - Los Rios Community College District	Award Winner - Campbell Soup Company
Award Winner - Paragary Restaurant Group	Award Winner - Kikkoman, Inc.	Award Winner - Mechanics Bank
Award Winner -Radisson Hotel Sacramento	Award Winner - Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD) for their Biogas Enhancement Pilot Project	Award Winner - Caltrans Division of Rail “Amtrak California” (Capital Corridor Commuter Rail) Locomotive Emission Upgrade Project
Envirobro' Leonard Robinson interviews Director Nancy Bui from the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.  The Going Green Radio Show is broadcast every thursday morning from 10 - 11am on KDEE FM 97.7 in Sacramento.  You can listen to the interview at this link.		Guest speaker Chris Flores, representing Congresswoman Doris Matsui
	Sacramento Sustainable Business Program is administered by the Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC) 3331 Peacekeeper Way McClellan, CA 95652 phone (916) 649-0225 Duane O'Donnell, REHS SSB Program Manager

We are grateful to the 2009 Sustainable Business Awards Event Sponsors, who made this event possible

The following businesses and organizations were acknowledged as Sustainable Businesses of the Year at the Annual Awards Ceremony on September 24, 2009 held at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District Customer Service Center.

1.  Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) – For outstanding support to local community on conserving resources and reducing energy consumption.  SMUD’s assistance to businesses in developing energy conservation strategies is evident in their involvement with four of this years award winners.  SMUDs assistance programs include:

·          Onsite Energy Audits – evaluate energy usage, recommend energy efficiency improvements, project dollar savings and payback periods.

·         OurGreenCommunity.org – a social networking site to help improve quality of life. A place for area residents, groups and businesses to share ideas about reducing the impact of carbon emissions

·         SolarShares – First program of its kind, and the largest in the nation. Innovative effort to support renewable energy.  Participants "buy into" a local solar farm.

·         Greenergy® - Nation's fifth-largest green pricing program, certified by the Green-e Renewable Electricity Certification Program.

2.  Los Rios Community College District & SMUD

Upgraded pneumatic control systems at their Sacramento City, Cosumnes River, and  American River College campuses with state of the art direct digital controls, variable speed drives, and carbon dioxide sensors.  This resulted in

·         Annual savings of approximately $289,000.

·         Annual emissions reduction of over 3.5 million pounds of CO2 associated with this project is equivalent to removing over 300 passenger cars from the road per year. 

3. Campbell Soup Company LLC & SMUD: For exemplary efforts in conserving resources and supporting research in alternative energy generation.

·         Heat Recovery Project - Captures thermal energy from spent cooker cooling water to produce product tempered water for use in new sterilizers.

ü       Expected energy savings of 75,929 Million BTU/year.

·         Lighting Project - Switch the plant over to more efficient, fluorescent fixtures, lamps, and sensors and installed occupancy sensors to turn lights off in certain areas.

ü       Expected to save over 4 Million kwh/year.

ü       Recycles up to 10 tons of plastic in per month.

ü       Recycles almost 100 tons of cardboard per month.

·         Anaerobic Digestion Project - Provided food waste to UC Davis and Onsite Power Systems (OPS) from July 2008 to May 2009 for use and study of an anaerobic digestion system.

4. Paragary Restaurant Group – Noetworthy commitment to the sustainability program by implementing measures and certifying all of the corporate locations:

5. Kikkoman – First Sacramento area business to earn Platinum Certification.  This is achieved by implementing the first set of sustainability measures, and then by implementing additional sets of measures for silver, gold, and platinum

·         Worked with City of Folsom Water Quality Division to complete a water audit of all manufacturing operations and landscaping of it’s 50-acre campus

·         Engaged Sacramento Municipal Utility District in completing an Energy Use Assessment of it’s facility

·         Installed secure area for bicycle parking to encourage employees to ride bikes to work

·         Instituted program to purchase paper products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council

·         Installed regenerative heating process to reduce energy consumption

6. Mechanics Bank – Is recognized as being a sustainability leader in the Sacramento Region. 

• All 5 of their regional offices In Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado counties are certified sustainable.

ü       Roseville

ü       El Dorado Hills

ü       Elk Grove

ü       Sacramento

ü       Rocklin

• Banking staff are encouraging & assisting their customers and clients to become certified Sustainable Businesses

7. Radisson Hotel Sacramento The first hotel in the region to earn sustainable certification in all five media areas!

• Installed Ozone oxidation system on washing machines, producing significant reductions in water use and sewer discharges, by allowing elimination of one rinse cycle
• Provides lockers and showers for employees who walk or bicycle to work
• Installed advanced thermostat controls to set guest rooms to default temperature when unoccupied
• Discontinued use of styrofoam products in restaurant
• Installed low-flow toilets and urinals throughout the facility
• Maintains spring fed lake in center of 18 acre complex with large grassy area that provides habitat for beneficial birds and insects.

This project Increased biogas used to enhance onsite renewable energy co-generation and determined that:

• Potential to increase the production of biogas, from 1,400 standard cubic feet per minute up to 2,200 – enough energy power approximately 1,000 to 3,000 area homes.
• Improve the handling, processing, and disposal of waste materials.
• Reduce the amount of waste materials that enter the sewer collection system, which could cause sewer blockages or overflows.

Project Team Members:

ü       Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD)

ü       Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

ü       Brown & Caldwell

ü       Sacramento Rendering Company

ü       Dr Pepper Snapple Group

ü       The Pepsi Bottling Group

9. Caltrans Division of Rail “Amtrak California” (Capital Corridor Commuter Rail) Locomotive Emission Upgrade Project 

• Cal Trans Capital Corridor route, run by Amtrak under contract to the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA), is a partnership of six local transit agencies in the eight county service area.  The Capital Corridor route extends from Sacramento to the Bay area covering more than 400 miles of heavy rail intercity train service and eliminates 559 million miles worth of highway travel.
• Fifteen (15) - 3,200 horse power locomotives manufactured by GM Electro Motive Division (EMD) were upgraded by EMD fromTier 0 (the dirtiest of engines) to a much cleaner Tier 2 emission level, reducing both smog forming NOx emissions by 42% and toxic particulate emissions by 45%.
• Since the Capitol Corridor route passes through both the SMAQMD and BAAQMD air districts, both air districts agreed that emission reduction from these engines would be very valuable and therefore funded this first ever passenger locomotive engine upgrade with assistance from the California Air Resources Baard and the US EPA.

The following are members of the Capital Corridor partnership:

·         California Department of Transportation, Division of Rail

·         Amtrak (National Rail Passenger Corp.)

·         Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority

·         California Air Resources Board (CARB)

·         Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD)

·         Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD)

·         Electro Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD)

·         U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9

10. Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD) E85 Program:

ü       E85 is an alcohol fuel mixture of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, by volume. Ethanol is derived from crops (bioethanol) is a biofuel. Ethanol is a renewable resource.

ü       The use of E85 results in reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use for each gallon burned, compared to the emissions and energy use for the gasoline it replaces.

ü       SMAQMD worked with 7 different fuel providers to implement E85 ethanol fuel at 23 retail sites, 4 card lock sites at locations in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Yolo, and Solano counties., covering orver 150 miles of highways 5, 50, 65, 80, and 99.

ü       The 7 providers who installed systems in 27 retail and limited access card lock sites formed a “consortium” to jointly notify the public about the availability of E85 in our region. 

ü       The 7 Providers and SMAQMD designed a postcard to notify consumers of E85 locations.

ü       SMAQMD also worked with two fleet sites, SMUD and City of Sacramento, to implement E85 at their municipal pumps.

ü       With the completion of this infrastructure, the Sacramento region now has the highest concentration of alternative fuel ethanol sites in California. 

Partners in this project include:

·         SMAQMD

·         DMC

·         Scotties Gas Station

·         Interstate Oil Company

·         Flyers (Nella Oil)

·         Pearson Fuels

·         Propel

·         Green Wave Fuel

·         City of Sacramento, Department of General Services, Fleet Management

·         Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)