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Goal/Strategy/Action numbering is preserved verbatim from the source (e.g. a source typo duplicating 'STRATEGY 2.1' twice under Water Resources Goal 2 is corrected to 2.1/2.2 here, noted inline). statusUpdate2025 is null with dataGap:true where the 2025 Progress Report did not address that specific goal.", "departments": [ { "id": "water-resources", "name": "Water Resources Department", "energySource": "electricity", "profile2019": { "pctOfCityElectricity": 49, "demandMW": 16, "usageMWh": 68496.885, "expenseUsd": 4400000, "citation": { "source": "sep2022", "page": 36 } }, "progress2025": { "preliminaryUsageMWh": 69845, "pctChangeVs2019": 2.0, "wrongDirection": true, "note": "Increase since 2019, against a 40% reduction target for 2025.", "citation": { "source": "progress2025", "page": 12 } }, "goals": [ { "number": 1, "id": "WR-G1", "text": "Reduce water demand by 20% per capita by 2030.", "evaluationMethod": "Track yearly water usage and normalize per capita. 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A matching service-population denominator and comparable baseline are still required before per-capita progress can be calculated.", "citation": { "sourceType": "external", "publisher": "City of Greensboro, Water Resources", "title": "Water Conservation", "url": "https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/water-resources/water-conservation", "retrievedDate": "2026-08-04", "note": "Supports the 2025 system-demand observation only; it does not establish per-capita progress or goal completion." } } ] }, { "number": 2, "id": "WR-G2", "text": "Reduce electricity demand by 40% by 2025 from 2007.", "evaluationMethod": "Track and report electricity consumption in kWh at the end of each year and compare to previous year for change in usage.", "citation": { "source": "sep2022", "page": [ 36, 72 ] }, "strategies": [ { "number": "2.1", "text": "Increase equipment efficiency.", "actions": [ { "id": "A2.1.1", "text": "Audit water and wastewater equipment." }, { "id": "A2.1.2", "text": "Implement efficiency measures suggested by audit." }, { "id": "A2.1.3", "text": "Monitor equipment to ensure efficiency levels are met." } ] }, { "number": "2.2", "sourceLabelNote": "Printed in source as 'STRATEGY 2.1' a second time; action IDs (A2.2.x) make clear this is Strategy 2.2.", "text": "Increase equipment efficiency (J. 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It's just attributed to a different department (Field Operations / Solid Waste & Recycling), not Water Resources — the SEP's department-siloed accounting has no mechanism to credit it here.", "framingNote": "Stated factually, not as an accusation: this is a gap in the reports' own department-based accounting structure, not evidence Water Resources underperformed relative to what it controls.", "seeAlso": "departments.json > white-street-landfill", "citation": { "sourceType": "external", "publisher": "City of Greensboro / Legistar", "title": "White Street Landfill Solar Facility (Legistar File 15-0607)", "url": "https://greensboro.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?FullText=1&GUID=C926F147-37D0-4B19-B389-E10BE804A2DD&ID=2376081", "retrievedDate": "2026-07-14", "note": "Not referenced in either SEP source document — found via independent research." } } } ] }, { "id": "transportation-electricity", "name": "Transportation Department (Electricity)", "energySource": "electricity", "profile2019": { "pctOfCityElectricity": 18, "demandMW": 1.5, "usageMWh": 25411.039, "expenseUsd": 3200000, "citation": { "source": "sep2022", "page": 38 } }, "note2025Reorg": "The Greensboro Transit Agency (GTA) was a division of the Transportation Department (GDOT) until 2023, when it became a separate department. 2025 progress figures below are reported as 'Transportation & Transit Departments' combined, which limits direct comparability to the 2019 baseline (which predates the GTA split).", "progress2025": { "preliminaryUsageMWh": 7409, "pctChangeVs2019": -70.8, "note": "Combined Transportation & Transit electricity use; decline is partly a reporting-boundary effect of the 2023 GTA split, not purely efficiency gains.", "citation": { "source": "progress2025", "page": 12 } }, "goals": [ { "number": 1, "id": "TR-E-G1", "text": "Increase LED streetlamp conversion by 5% per year.", "evaluationMethod": "Track and report the increase in streetlamps converted to LEDs at the end of each year.", "citation": { "source": "sep2022", "page": [ 38, 72 ] }, "strategies": [ { "number": "1.1", "text": "Increase the conversion of street lighting to LED.", "actions": [ { "id": "A1.1.1", "text": "Work with Duke Energy to ensure conversion meets the yearly goal." } ] } ], "statusUpdate2025": { "status": "Ongoing", "text": "GDOT works with Duke Energy to coordinate LED conversion of the company's more than 27,400 streetlamps and other public outdoor lighting units. LED streetlamp conversion data for 2025 (percent converted) was not available for inclusion in this report. However, total energy consumption by streetlamps dropped from 18,276 MWh in 2022 to 1,952 MWh in 2025 — a reduction of 89.3%.", "dataGapNote": "2025 LED conversion percentage explicitly stated as unavailable in the source report — a self-acknowledged gap.", "cscUpdate2026": { "date": "2026-07-13", "text": "At the CSC's July 2026 meeting, OSR staff cited the conversion pace as roughly 5.2% per year for the plan's first two years and said the City is still waiting on Duke Energy for an update covering the past year. The pace figure matches OSR's own previously reported 2019–2024 average (see ledConversionTimeSeries below) — no material change — but confirms the 2025 data-gap flagged in the Progress Report was still unresolved as of mid-2026.", "citation": { "sourceType": "external", "publisher": "City of Greensboro / Community Sustainability Council", "title": "CSC Meeting Minutes, July 13, 2026", "url": "https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/office-of-sustainability-and-resilience/community-sustainability-council-csc", "retrievedDate": "2026-07-22" } }, "streetlampEnergyMWh2022": 18276, "streetlampEnergyMWh2025": 1952, "streetlampEnergyChangePct": -89.3, "streetlampBaselineYearNote": "This comparison uses 2022 as the baseline, not 2019 — different reference year than the SEP's 2007/2019 baselines.", "correspondingPrioritizedAction": 21, "citation": { "source": "progress2025", "page": 12 } }, "fundingLink": { "hasActiveFunding": false, "note": "Duke Energy-driven infrastructure conversion; no named City grant or contract identified in the source." }, "ledConversionTimeSeries": { "unit": "% of ~27,400 City streetlamps converted to LED", "note": "Closes the gap the 2025 Progress Report explicitly flagged as unavailable — found in the 2024 report instead.", "series": [ { "year": 2019, "pctLed": 15.2, "ledCount": 4039 }, { "year": 2021, "pctLed": 33.0, "ledCount": 9005 }, { "year": 2023, "pctLed": 39.7, "ledCount": 10851 }, { "year": 2024, "pctLed": 41.2, "ledCount": 11295 } ], "avgAnnualPaceNote": "OSR's own stated average pace: 5.2% per year (2019-2024).", "citation": { "source": "progress2024", "page": 17 } }, "statusHistory": [ { "year": 2023, "status": "Ongoing", "text": "As of October 2023, 39.6% of all lamps used LEDs, up from 15.2% in 2019 (avg. pace 6.1%/year).", "citation": { "source": "progress2023", "page": 16 } }, { "year": 2024, "status": "Ongoing", "text": "As of December 2024, 41.2% converted, up from 15.2% in 2019 (avg. pace 5.2%/year).", "citation": { "source": "progress2024", "page": 17 } }, { "year": 2026, "status": "Ongoing", "text": "At the CSC's July 2026 meeting, OSR cited the conversion pace as roughly 5.2%/year for the plan's first two years — matching the 2024 report's own average — and said the City is still waiting on Duke Energy for a 2025 update. 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Do not conflate the two when charting.", "profile2019": { "pctOfCityElectricityByUseType": 32, "demandMW": 5.35, "expenseUsd": 2400000, "citation": { "source": "sep2022", "page": 42 } }, "progress2025": { "preliminaryUsageMWh": 45576, "pctChangeVs2019": 1.0, "wrongDirection": true, "note": "Increase since 2019, against a 40% reduction target for 2025.", "citation": { "source": "progress2025", "page": 13 } }, "goals": [ { "number": 1, "id": "EI-G1", "text": "Reduce electricity demand by 40% by 2025 from 2007.", "evaluationMethod": "Track and report electricity consumption in kWh at the end of each year and compare to previous year for change in usage.", "citation": { "source": "sep2022", "page": [ 42, 72 ] }, "strategies": [ { "number": "1.1", "text": "Increase building energy efficiency (1st Tier buildings).", "actions": [ { "id": "A1.1.1", "text": "Perform energy audits on buildings." }, { "id": "A1.1.2", "text": "Implement efficiency measures suggested by audit." }, { "id": "A1.1.3", "text": "Monitor equipment to ensure efficiency levels are met." } ] }, { "number": "1.2", "text": "Increase building energy efficiency (2nd Tier buildings).", "actions": [ { "id": "A1.2.1", "text": "Perform energy audits on buildings." }, { "id": "A1.2.2", "text": "Implement efficiency measures suggested by audit." }, { "id": "A1.2.3", "text": "Monitor equipment to ensure efficiency levels are met." } ] } ], "statusUpdate2025": { "status": "In Progress", "text": "Preliminary figures put total electricity use in the City's buildings at 45,576 MWh in 2025, a 1.0% increase since 2019. OSR contracted with Systems Contractors, Inc. (SCI) to audit the City's 10-highest energy-using buildings and recommend energy conservation measures. Level 1 audits identified needed maintenance and corrective measures; SCI suggested more-detailed Level 2 audits. OSR is working to carry out these projects and identify needed funding. In October, OSR encouraged staff to coordinate major energy-consuming activities with Duke Energy's non-summer, seasonal time-of-use electricity rates.", "correspondingPrioritizedAction": 2, "citation": { "source": "progress2025", "page": 13 }, "cscUpdate2026": { "date": "2026-07-13", "text": "OSR's July 2026 CSC presentation described the SCI Level 1 audits on the 10 least-efficient buildings as fully completed, with some resulting upgrades expected to follow shortly — a slightly more advanced status than the 2025 Progress Report's 'OSR is working to carry out these projects and identify needed funding,' consistent with normal progress in the months since that report's February 2026 publication rather than a contradiction.", "citation": { "sourceType": "external", "publisher": "City of Greensboro / Community Sustainability Council", "title": "CSC Meeting Minutes, July 13, 2026", "url": "https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/office-of-sustainability-and-resilience/community-sustainability-council-csc", "retrievedDate": "2026-07-22" } } }, "fundingLink": { "hasActiveFunding": true, "linkedTo": "funding.json > contracts > sci-building-audit-2025", "note": "SCI's Level 1/2 building audits are the named contract behind this goal's 2025 progress." }, "buildingLogiX": { "note": "The City contracted BuildingLogiX, an energy sub-metering system, installed in City buildings in October 2024, allowing real-time electricity monitoring in the 10 largest City buildings.", "citation": { "source": "progress2024", "page": 14 } }, "statusHistory": [ { "year": 2023, "status": "Initiated", "text": "The OSR developed an RFP for contractors to provide energy audits and recommendations for energy conservation measures in the City's largest energy-consuming buildings, in compliance with ASHRAE standards, including MWBE Office participation.", "citation": { "source": "progress2023", "page": 17 } }, { "year": 2024, "status": "In Progress", "text": "The OSR contracted with a vendor to provide energy audits in select City buildings. 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Separately, Housing & Neighborhood Development's Weatherization Assistance Program and Duke Energy Carolinas' High Energy Usage Pilot Program collaborated on client referrals/repairs, including replacing old heating systems with mini-split heat pumps in the 59-unit Southwoods multi-family housing rehabilitation project.", "citation": { "source": "progress2024", "page": 20 } }, { "year": 2026, "status": "Active program confirmed", "text": "The City continued offering free household water and energy conservation kits through a collaboration between the Office of Sustainability and Resilience and Water Resources. The kits are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant and distributed through GSO WaterWise while supplies last.", "citation": { "sourceType": "external", "publisher": "City of Greensboro, Office of Sustainability and Resilience", "title": "Water & Energy Conservation", "url": "https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/office-of-sustainability-and-resilience/sustainability-programs/water-energy-conservation", "retrievedDate": "2026-08-04", "note": "Confirms continued program activity in 2026; does not establish participation totals or overall goal completion." } } ], "wentSilent": { "value": false, "note": "The 2025 Annual Progress Report omitted this goal, but a current official City program page confirms in 2026 that the EECBG-funded water and energy conservation kit program remains active. The reporting gap remains historically visible, but the work is no longer classified as silent.", "lastReportedYear": 2024, "lastReportedStatus": "Initiated", "externalActivityConfirmedYear": 2026 } }, { "number": 2, "id": "CI-G2", "text": "Address cost burdens to ensure a just transition to renewable energy for all and prioritize at-risk populations.", "evaluationMethod": "Track and report all efforts by the City to address cost burdens to ensure a just transition to renewable energy for all and prioritize at-risk populations.", "citation": { "source": "sep2022", "page": [ 52, 74 ] }, "strategies": [ { "number": "2.1", "text": "Assist lower-wealth citizens in reducing water and electricity demand.", "actions": [ { "id": "A2.1.1", "text": "Establish funding to assist citizens in reducing utility demand." }, { "id": "A2.1.2", "text": "Funding to provide high efficiency toilets, showerheads, appliances, insulation, etc." }, { "id": "A2.1.3", "text": "Collaborate with GTCC to create a Train/Work program for retrofits." }, { "id": "A2.1.4", "text": "Housing & Neighborhood Development to develop and run education program." } ] } ], "additionalRecommendedActions": [ "Economic Development & Business Services Office (EDBS) - collaborate with the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship to incubate new local green businesses.", "EDBS - offer economic development assistance grants/forgivable loans to green businesses relocating to, or expanding in, Greensboro.", "EDBS - offer grants/forgivable loans to businesses that implement energy saving or emissions reducing improvements to their facilities.", "Housing and Neighborhood Development Department - offer grants/forgivable loans to low- and moderate-income homeowners and affordable housing property owners who implement energy saving or emissions reducing improvements.", "Sustainability Office - collaborate with Libraries to organize an annual Neighborhood Sustainability Challenge Program.", "Sustainability Office - establish funding and collaborate with CSC to formally launch the Greensboro Responsible Business Awards Program." ], "statusUpdate2025": null, "dataGap": true, "statusUpdate2025Note": "Not directly updated by number in the 2025 report, but Recommendation 3 / Strategy 3.3 (outreach to impacted/vulnerable communities via the equity prioritization tool) and the EECBG-funded water/energy conservation kits address closely related ground. See recommendations.json Recommendation 3 and departments.json Water Resources Goal 2.", "fundingLink": { "hasActiveFunding": false, "note": "No named grant/contract directly tied to this goal itself; adjacent EECBG-funded conservation kit work sits under Water Resources Goal 2 instead." } } ] }, { "id": "white-street-landfill", "name": "White Street Landfill (Field Operations / Solid Waste & Recycling)", "energySource": "renewableGeneration", "externalOnly": true, "note": "This entry exists entirely outside the SEP's goal structure — it is not derived from either SEP source document, has no Goal/Strategy/Action numbering, and no 'goals' array. It was added because independent research (Legistar, Step 3) surfaced a real, City-related renewable energy asset with no home anywhere in the SEP's department-by-department accounting. Field Operations was renamed 'Solid Waste & Recycling' as of the 2025 Progress Report (see recommendations.json > REC-1 > status2025) — the White Street Landfill is that department's facility.", "crossReferencedFrom": { "goal": "departments.json > water-resources > WR-G3", "note": "See that goal's relatedExternalFinding for the framing: the SEP's own accounting treats Water Resources' renewable progress as stalled (its 1 MW T.Z. Osborne proposal never happened), while a City-related asset roughly 5x larger was built in the same window under a different department, uncredited in either report. A factual gap in department-siloed accounting, not an accusation." }, "externalAssets": [ { "id": "wsl-solar", "name": "White Street Landfill Solar Facility", "capacityMw": 4.8, "capacityConfidence": "medium — see funding.json > externallyVerifiedRenewableAssets > whiteStreetLandfillSolar > asBuilt for full confidence notes and a homes-equivalent figure discrepancy (65 vs. 650) not resolved in this research pass.", "acreage": "15-20 acres as authorized (2015); ~30 acres as commonly reported once built — discrepancy not resolved to a single primary source.", "operator": "Petra Engineering (2015 authorization) / 'ReNew Petra' (current common name) — plausibly a rebrand, not independently confirmed.", "operationalDate": "2020-10", "homesEquivalent": 65, "financingModel": "Land lease / independent power producer — NOT a Solar Power Purchase Agreement (City does not purchase the power; developer sells to Duke Energy directly, City receives ~$6,000/year lease rent plus a purchase option after year 7). See funding.json for the full distinction.", "legistarFileId": "15-0607", "citation": { "sourceType": "external", "publisher": "City of Greensboro / Legistar", "title": "Resolution Authorizing an Amendment to the White Street Landfill Gas Utilization Project Agreement with Petra Engineering to Include a Solar Facility", "legistarFileId": "15-0607", "url": "https://greensboro.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?FullText=1&GUID=C926F147-37D0-4B19-B389-E10BE804A2DD&ID=2376081", "retrievedDate": "2026-07-14", "note": "Not referenced in either SEP source document — found via independent research." } }, { "id": "wsl-gas-to-energy", "name": "White Street Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project", "note": "Separate project under the same amended agreement as the solar facility; converts landfill methane to electricity.", "homesEquivalent": 1500, "homesEquivalentConfidence": "medium — see funding.json > externallyVerifiedRenewableAssets > whiteStreetLandfillGasToEnergy for confidence notes.", "citation": { "sourceType": "external", "publisher": "City of Greensboro (OSR 'Solar Energy Central' page, via search-result aggregation)", "title": "Solar Energy Central", "url": "https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/office-of-sustainability-and-resilience/leed-for-cities/solar-energy-central", "retrievedDate": "2026-07-14", "note": "Direct fetch returned HTTP 403; figure drawn from search-engine summaries referencing this page. Not referenced in either SEP source document." } } ], "fundingLink": { "hasActiveFunding": true, "linkedTo": "funding.json > externallyVerifiedRenewableAssets", "note": "Privately financed (land lease / IPP model, not a City grant) — 'funded' here means the project happened and is documented, not that City grant dollars built it." } } ] }