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<br />23 <br /> City of Fridley staff, including City Lead, Communications Division, and Building <br />Inspections <br /> Fridley Housing and Redevelopment Authority and Business Retention and <br />Expansion Team <br /> Environmental Quality and Energy Commission <br /> Home Energy Squad implementers <br /> Xcel Energy’s Partners in Energy <br />Impact <br />Achieving goals outlined here will generate important impacts on both community <br />engagement and energy use. Increasing energy conservation and renewable energy <br />program participation by 1,200 additional actions will result in almost 3,000 homes <br />taking action by 2020, representing 25 percent of all households in Fridley. If the goals <br />of this focus area are achieved, residential energy use will decrease by 1.5 percent by <br />2020, saving an estimated 700,922 kWh and 94,694 therms between 2019 and 2020. <br />Residential energy-related greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced 955 MTCO2e by <br />2020, which is approximately equivalent to the carbon emitted from 204 passenger <br />vehicles in one year.28 These actions will also improve the quality of life for Fridley <br />residents by improving the health and comfort of their homes, and lower ing their energy <br />bills. On average, Fridley residents who participate in an energy conservation program <br />are expected to save $52 per year. <br /> <br /> <br />28 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (March 13, 2018). Greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator. <br />Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator.