Alameda staff present 2025 CARP annual report, highlight EV charging pilots and shoreline design progress

Danielle Mueller, the City of Alameda—s sustainability and resilience manager, presented the 2025 annual report for the city—s Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP) at the Commission on Persons with Disabilities meeting on March 11, saying Alameda has reduced community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by about 29% since 2005 and is on a path to meet 2030 and 2045 targets.

Mueller told commissioners the city—s 2022 greenhouse-gas inventory shows roughly half of local emissions come from on-road vehicle travel, about a third from natural-gas use in buildings, and the remainder from off-road engines, solid waste and water/wastewater. "A big contributor to that emissions reduction was AMP transitioning to a 100% clean electricity in 2020," she said. City goals named in the report include a 50% reduction below 2005 levels by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2045.

The report, Mueller said, is linked to a new public metrics hub the city launched to track progress across focus areas such as transportation emissions, building electrification, zero waste, urban forestry and community activation. She cited specific benchmarks: 61 miles of bikeways built toward a 70-mile 2030 target; about 11% of Alameda-registered vehicles are electric (the report—s 2030 target was 12%); average indoor water use of 43 gallons per person per day (target 42); and a 2024 PG&E-derived figure of roughly 14.7 million therms of natural gas citywide (Mueller prefaced that number with "I think").

Mueller outlined 2025 accomplishments and near-term work: deployment of curbside EV chargers in partnership with a vendor called It—s Electric, public chargers at Everett Commons and Bullhole Circle/Immigrant Park, AMP and other rebates for home electrification equipment, adoption of requirements for heat-pump replacements and provisions that make single-family remodels "future-ready" for electrification, volunteer-driven tree plantings in parks and an ongoing youth climate ambassador program. She said the city is continuing to install chargers in city-owned parking lots and to work with Blink Charging for some public installations.

Commissioners asked detailed follow-ups. When asked how goals were selected, Mueller said the metrics and targets were largely established with stakeholder meetings, surveys and council input during the plan—s earlier updates and that the city aligned some targets with state policy. On shoreline adaptation, she said the Bay Farm Island project has secured funding for 60% design work and that construction funding remains to be raised. "We're designing in phases" she said of the usual 10/30/60/90/100% design process; "the big fundraising is ... money for construction, which is the really expensive part."

The presentation and discussion addressed access and safety questions tied to new infrastructure: curbside charging installations are required to include van-accessible spaces to meet accessibility law; the city—s preferred curbside model allows a host property to bill electricity via a secondary meter, or the vendor can reimburse the host for electricity used. Mueller said the fire department is aware of electric-vehicle battery risks and has response capacity. On transit, she said the city coordinates with regional operators such as AC Transit and East Bay Paratransit as those agencies electrify fleets and that ferry charging infrastructure is being upgraded to support electric vessels.

Mueller said the city will take the CARP annual report to the City Council on March 17 and invited the commission to forward any comments for council consideration. She also described planned work in 2026 including updating the greenhouse-gas inventory for 2024 and running a municipal operations inventory to capture city buildings and vehicles.

The commission did not vote on policy at the meeting; Mueller—s report was presented for information and will be considered by the City Council on March 17.