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Subcommittee pursues generator checks and battery backup for town center
Summary
Fred said the power-and-resilience group is inventorying town-center energy assets, found the diesel generator powers only town hall and was exercised during a recent PG&E outage, and that the town is pursuing a Westlight Energy grant for battery backup to support communications and cooling centers.
Fred, representing the power and resilience subcommittee, said the group's main focus has been understanding the town-center energy and backup-power situation, including as-built details for solar panels and the diesel generator. He said the generator was run during a recent PG&E outage but powers only town hall and not the library, limiting the town center's resilience.
"The generator was fired up a couple months ago during that last, last PG and E outage that affected town hall town center," staff reported; members noted the generator's limited distribution and discussed the need to test and possibly inspect it to ensure it can be relied upon. Fred said the subcommittee is pursuing information and estimated costs to inspect and exercise the diesel generator and is working on possible battery-backup funding through a Westlight Energy grant.
Members suggested coordinating scheduled testing with the EOP/EOC staff and establishing periodic testing cadence (every 3–12 months) once responsibilities are assigned.
