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Deputy city manager outlines solar, LED and transit pilots and climate-action work
Summary
Deputy City Manager Jackie Guile told the committee the city is coordinating a solar strategy with the county and resilience authority, pursuing no-cost LED retrofits through BG&E’s Empower Maryland program, finalizing a greenhouse-gas inventory and seeking vendors for an electric streetcar feasibility study and a ferry pilot that requires a $525,000 local match.
Deputy City Manager Jackie Guile told the Environmental Matters Committee that the administration is prioritizing clean energy and transportation initiatives in the coming months.
"We are focusing heavily on both transportation initiatives and clean energy, reliable energy, energy savings," Guile said, describing coordinated work with Anne Arundel County and the resilience authority to create a city solar strategy and identify three municipal sites for rooftop solar analysis.
Guile said the city is participating in BG&E’s Empower Maryland program to complete LED lighting retrofits at no cost to the city. Forest Drive Fire Station was the pilot site, with upgrades completed May 13, and the program runs through the end of September. An internal breakdown included estimated kilowatt savings and projected annual utility savings for additional municipal buildings being considered.
She said the city is finalizing edits to its greenhouse gas inventory and climate action plan, and will append a comparison showing what the prior plan recommended and what the city implemented. Guile also described residential-solar outreach via Solar United Neighbors and a technical-assistance grant to study a microgrid for community housing redevelopments.
On transportation, Guile said the resilience authority received about six proposals for an electric streetcar technical feasibility study and expects to choose a vendor in the coming months. She also described a revised ferry pilot RFP and the city’s local-match needs: the project requires roughly $525,000 in local match, and staff has secured $250,000 from a marina owner in Eastport toward permit concessions; further funding sources are being sought.
Guile encouraged committee members to reach out with questions and offered to provide a shorter, more concise update for mayoral staff and general counsel while retaining the full briefing for the committee and the Annapolis Environmental Commission.
