San Francisco, California

This facility features the following green attributes:
Green Power

Region 9 Office

Total Facility Area: 227,745 rentable square feet
Estimated Personnel: 1,160 persons
Energy Consumption: 10,615,731,536 Btu per year (EPA share)
Btu per Rentable Square Foot per Year: 46,612
Water Consumption: not available

All energy and water data are reported as of FY 2004.

Description

EPA's Region 9 consists of four states and two U.S. Territories: Nevada, California, Arizona, Hawaii, Samoa, and Guam. EPA Region 9 also works with 147 federally recognized tribes in the Pacific Southwest.

Unique Environmental Features

Energy Conservation

In October 2003, a new solar water heater was installed at the Region 9 Child Care and Fitness Center to offset the natural gas consumed by the previous gas-fired water heating system. Additional energy and water efficient features, such as high-efficiency showerheads and washing machines were installed to further reduce the facility's energy and water consumption, as well as reduce Region 9's utility bills.
The Region 9 office has a lighting efficiency project that results in average monthly energy savings of 35,000 kilowatt hours (kWh).
The Region 9 office also has a policy of turning off unused machines, such as coffee pots, unnecessary elevators, and personal printers. More than half of the computers are programmed to go into "sleep mode" after 30 minutes of non-use, resulting in a savings of 78 watts per monitor.

Green Power

In November 2004, EPA entered into a three-year contract (procured by the Western Area Power Administration ), with 3 Phases Energy Services , to purchase 2.3 million kWh of green power annually in the form of renewable energy certificates for its Region 9 office, which offsets 100 percent of the facility's annual electricity use. This contract supports the generation of renewable, geothermal energy from The Geysers in Middletown, California. The Geysers, which is located approximately 100 miles north of San Francisco in the Mayacamas Mountains, consists of 19 geothermal plants with a generation capacity of 850 megawatts.

For More Information

David Wampler (wampler.david@epa.gov)
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 972-3975

Web site: www.epa.gov/region9