Energy Efficiency - Cross-Cutting and Policy Initiatives
California Energy Efficiency Initiative
With funding from Sempra Energy, the Energy Efficiency Center has launched an outreach effort that will elevate and integrate the importance of energy efficiency in meeting AB32 related GHG emission reduction goals. This effort will evaluate how energy efficiency can support GHG reductions for the State of California (and internationally). For more information about this project, click here.
UC Davis West Village Community Development as a Living Laboratory
UC Davis' West Village is a unique mixed-use neighborhood-scale development on 220 acres to the west of the existing UC Davis main campus. It will be built out over the next 10 years to eventually include 500 single family homes, 1200 student rentals, and 30,000 square feet of commercial and retail space. The Energy Efficiency Center is working closely with UC Davis Resource Management and Planning to ensure that this development meets UC commitments for sustainability and attains a net-zero greenhouse gas footprint goal. Built as a "living laboratory," this facility will allow researchers to test innovative energy efficient technologies, alternative modes of transportation, and sustainable building design. 
In 2007, the Energy Efficiency Center completed the West Village Energy Efficiency Project Report, through which several marketing and financing strategies were suggested that would enable West Village to successfully incorporate the latest distributed energy technologies and energy efficiency measures, while maintaining other key development goals such as affordability. One outcome of the project was the opportunity to couple the unique physical development with active programs for education, research, and public service in order to better serve both the development principals and the university mission. Built as a "living laboratory," this development will be a platform for research and education by allowing researchers to monitor innovative energy efficiency measures, community scale distributed and renewable energy technologies, appropriate transportation strategies, and sustainable community design practices. For an overview, please click here.
Confront Carbon at Home
EEC staff are working with the Davis High School science program to explore energy efficiency concepts and practices with students. Junior and senior high school students calculate their own carbon footprints, use energy meters to measure electricity use in their homes, explore the energy intensities of communities throughout the U.S. and the world, as well as study the varying carbon emissions emitted from primary energy sources (e.g., solar, wind, nuclear, natural gas, coal, etc). For interactive website for this program click here.