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County approves $1.2M energy contract for solar carports and battery backup at county libraries
Summary
Supervisors approved a state grant-funded energy services contract with Enerlogics (agreement recorded as Inner Logics/Interlogix in the record) to install solar carports and two-hour battery backup at three county library sites; board voted 5-0.
The Board of Supervisors approved a resolution and an agreement Tuesday to implement solar and battery backup installations on multiple county library facilities using a California State Library Building Forward grant.
Public Services Director Lars Ewing told the board the project — designed with energy-consultant review and developer selection — includes carport solar arrays at Red Bud (about 31 kilowatts) and Lakeport (about 24 kilowatts) and a combined carport/roof-top array at Middletown (about 72 kilowatts). Each site will include a two‑hour battery energy storage system (BESS) sized to support short-duration outages and provide peak-demand relief; the installation also leaves room to expand storage in the future.
Ewing said the county issued a request for proposals and selected Enerlogics (listed in some board documents and motions under variations of the company name) after a committee ranked firms for experience and financial viability. The project is primarily grant-funded; staff presented a financial analysis prepared by an energy consultant showing a projected 10-year payback and a positive net present value over a 25-year assumed lifetime. The packet listed an estimated total project cost of about $1.2 million and an estimated net present value of roughly $1.6 million over 25 years — metrics that reflected grant-funded construction and avoided energy costs over the system life.
The board approved the resolution making the findings required by Government Code for energy conservation contracts and then approved the design-and-construction agreement with the selected firm, authorizing the chair to sign. Supervisors asked about possible electric-vehicle charging additions; staff said EV charging is not funded by the current grant but is part of the wider project planning under separate funds.
Ewing said library staff and county capital projects staff will coordinate implementation, and that the grant requires battery backup as part of the building-resilience scope. The motion passed 5-0.
