SAN LEANDRO, CA-IBEW / NECA celebrated the grand opening of the Zero Net Energy Center with a formal Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Thursday. Located at 14600 Catalina St. in San Leandro, the ZNE Center is the said to be the very first commercial building retrofit to be recognized by the US Department of Energy as “zero net energy.”
The 46,000-square-foot facility is the new home of the IBEW Local 595 and the Northern California Chapter of NECA's Joint Apprenticeship and Training Program. A crowd of approximately 500 gathered to mark the event including program participants and stakeholders as well as prominent business and community leaders.
The ZNE Center officially opens its doors as the educational facility for more than 2,000 apprentice and journey-level electricians in Alameda County and to serve as an industry-wide resource.
“The building is a true “game changer” for our industry” says Victor Uno, business manager for IBEW Local 595, “We are proud to push the envelope in the areas of energy conservation efforts, renewable energy promotion, job creation, work-force training and labor-management cooperation.”
In addition to being the very first retrofit of an existing commercial building that meets the U.S. Department of Energy standards for a “zero net energy” building, the ZNE Center also exceeds the State of California's 2030 energy efficiency effort by meeting the zero net goal 17 years in advance, according to a prepared statement. It also exceeds the energy conservation goals of the Obama administration's Better Buildings Challenge.
Don Campbell, executive director of NECA's Northern California Chapter, says that “This energy savings lowers the ZNE Center's carbon footprint by 175 tons of CO2 per year, equal to the carbon emitted by 30 passenger vehicles annually as well as a savings of 500 barrels of oil each year.”
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