Located in San Joaquin County, Stockton, California, is a diverse city home to 320,000 residents. Stockton is historically dependent on fossil fuel-related industries, and more than 39% of Stockton''s greenhouse gas emissions are related to energy use across multiple sectors. The city''s residents, particularly those in South Stockton neighborhoods, face several energy and environmental challenges. These challenges include high exposure to energy industry-related pollution, excessively high energy bills, widespread power outages, and natural disasters driven by climate change.
Through the Communities Local Energy Action Program (LEAP) pilot, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy''s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) provided technical assistance (TA) to support Stockton''s goals to improve community resiliency to disasters and to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and criteria air pollutantemissions.
South Stockton has a decades-long history of disinvestment that has resulted in unequal health, environmental, and economic outcomes. This part of the Stockton community is primarily composed of Latina/o/x, Black, and Asian residents, who live in census tracts that lie within the top 5%–25% of environmentally burdened communities, according to CalEnviroScreen 3.0. These census tracts are also defined as low-income communities, with the median household income at or below 80% of the statewide median income.
Power outages pose another health concern in South Stockton. In 2020, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) was forced to introduce rotating electricity outages to manage limited energy supply as demand spiked during a heatwave. These outages, as well as longer-lasting outages caused by wildfires or other disasters, can leave Stockton residents without power, and consequently without air conditioning and refrigeration, during the worst of the summer heat, which is particularly threatening to seniors and individuals with medical conditions.
Additionally, a number of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitting industries in California are planning to capture CO2 for geologic storage in deep reservoirs in the San Joaquin Delta region, which includes Stockton. In response to this planned activity the Stockton community has raised questions about the safety and risks of carbon capture and storage to drinking water supplies, air quality and the environment. The San Joaquin Delta is one of the largest estuaries in the United States and provides water to more than 25 million California residents, farmlands, and key fish and wildlife habitats.
Communities LEAP provided support to two community coalitions in Stockton; one coalition is focused on improving resilience to disasters, and the other is focused on exploring the risks, potential impacts, regulatory frameworks, and other aspects of geologic storage of captured CO2.
NREL provided TA to support Stockton''s resilience goals by partnering with Little Manila Rising, an organization serving the South Stockton community, to explore opportunities to develop and operate the Little Manila Center as a resilience hub—a safe, resilient, and central location where the community can gather during and after disasters such as flooding, extreme heat, power outages, and more.
TA through FECM included working with Restore the Delta to design an impact assessment process to better understand the risks that carbon capture and storage (CCS) and CO2 removal (CDR) may pose to water quality, human health, and sensitive ecosystems within the San Joaquin Delta estuary and broaderregion. CCS and CDR are carbon management options that local industries are considering for reducing their CO2 emissions. The risk analysis informed the development of regionally tailored environmental, public health, and emergency preparedness standards relative to carbon management.
Universal Power Solutions, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of San Miguel Global Power Holdings Corp. (SMGP), signed financing agreements worth P40 billion for its battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.
SMGP is building a nationwide BESS network which is seen as critical to improving power quality and helping power the country''s clean energy transition with a combined capacity of 1,000 megawatt-hours (mWh) estimated to cost $1 billion.
San Miguel Corp. president and chief executive Ramon Ang said during the inauguration ceremonies of the BESS facilities in Bataan early this year that BESS is an important global innovation in the energy sector, one that would enable stable and reliable power to reach even far-off areas.
"Our BESS facilities will support the country''s power grid by storing excess power from existing plants, and injecting this power back, when and where it is needed, within milliseconds—ensuring power quality is stable, and reaches users all over the country," Ang said.
"With battery energy storage, we can solve the problem with most renewable energy sources, which is intermittence, due to the irregularity or seasonality of solar and wind power sources. Over the next couple of years, we estimate the integration of up to 5000 MW of renewable power into the grid, due largely to our BESS facilities," Ang said.
Note: Much of the information in this material is from the updated Philippine Energy Plan 2020–2040 and available materials from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
The updated Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) 2020–2040 is set to support the country’s economic growth rate of 7.4% towards the end of the 2020–2040 planning period. During the period, electricity sales are expected to increase four-fold whilst total final energy demand is seen to post an annual increase of 5.8%.
The PEP 2020–2040 presents how the energy sector intends to help achieve the county’s NDC through direct GHG reduction and GHG avoidance from renewable-based electricity generation. The sector’s GHG emissions only cover the combustion of fossil fuels and other activities related to the production of energy. The transport sector, whilst a major consumer of oil-based fuels, is treated separately with respect to GHG emission as the Department of Transportation, another government agency, is overseeing the sector.
Based on computed GHG, the energy sector can achieve a 2.8% reduction from 2020 to 2030, which includes both conditional and unconditional targets. This is equivalent to GHG emission reduction of about 45.9 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) or about 1.37% of the country’s NDC target.
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