Brown to Green: Turning Los Angeles’ Brown Power Infrastructure Green through a Feed-in-Tariff

Brown to Green: Turning Los Angeles' Brown Power Infrastructure Green through a Feed-in-Tariff

While the City of Los Angeles stumbles toward greening it's power infrastructure with renewable sources, a proven method of quickly and affordably reaching this goal has been analyzed for use in Southern California; this method is a feed-in-tariff (FiT).

A proven concept in Germany, Spain and now Italy, feed-in-tariffs are a mechanism for a power utility company, such as the LADWP, to activate the public and private sector to install renewables in excess of their own power needs, selling the balance of power back to the utility. To make the adoption of a FiT even easier here in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Business Council commissioned Professor JR DeShazo of UCLA's Luskin School for Innovation to author a report for a customized FiT for the City of Los Angeles. His study clearly shows that a well design FiT program would jump start the greening of LA's power grid, would have limited near term costs, and would provide long term savings to the City.

Now all that remains is for leaders of the City of Los Angeles to have the courage to implement a FiT.

Our panel will discuss the general benefits of feed-in-tariffs, the specific plan to implement a FiT through the LADWP, the environmental benefits of distributed power generation, and the architectural implications of this shift from brown to green.

OPENING REMARKS:
Councilmember Jan Perry - City of Los Angeles, Council District #9

PANEL FRAMER:
Stuart Magruder, AIA LEED | Studio Nova A Architects, Inc.

PANELISTS:
Angie Brooks, AIA | Pugh + Scarpa Architects
J.R. DeShazo | UCLA's Luskin School For Innovation

MODERATOR:
Craig Lewis | FiT Coalition

WHEN:
Thursday, September 23 (7:30am-9:30am)

WHERE:
Harley Ellis Devereaux
601 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90017

ADVANCE REGISTRATION PREFERRED. To register, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

TICKETS*:
$20 for AIA members
$35 for non-members

*On-site tickets can be purchased by cash or check. No credit cards.

CEUs: 1.5 Sustainability CEUs for AIA members

For a copy of the LABC Feed-in-Tariff Study, CLICK HERE.

For a copy of the AIA|LA position of support, please CLICK HERE.

For more information about the Los Angeles Business Council's leadership initiative, CLICK HERE.

For more information, and to access the UCLA Luskin Center For Innovation: CLICK HERE.

For more information, contact:
Will Wright
Director, Government & Public Affairs
AIA Los Angeles Will Wright

Last Updated: April 12, 2010