 That's why we like to do it over here with the LEDs instead because we don't have to work so hard. It's all magnets. We've got the whole thing stuck there. Now I have a question. If you leave the bottom ones down and then you flip it over, what happens? Put it on now. It didn't stick. Do you know why it did that? Anglets are funny like that. Sometimes they stick together and sometimes they push each other apart. Do you want to try catching the paper clip? No. You want to do this one. This is the cool one. Oh, nice. Hi, I'm Darren Springer, General Manager with Burlington Electric Department. We're here at the first ever Net Zero Energy Festival at 585 Pine Street at our offices. We're here today to really focus the community's attention on climate change and the different efforts we can make to reduce fossil fuel use, whether that is driving electric, mowing electric, using a cold climate heat pump, riding an e-bike, doing more walking and biking in general, and a number of other things that we can do to reduce energy use and save money. We're hoping this becomes an annual tradition here in Burlington and that we can share with our customers good advice, have different installers and vendors share what they're doing and what technologies are available, and have a fun event. We have lots of fossil fuel-free food trucks here. We have live music and a DJ and a great day for the weather that we had here as well. So we hope that folks will continue to visit BurlingtonElectric.com, check out our rebates, and join us for the Net Zero Festival every year. Yeah, well if you both aren't going on long trips separately regularly, then an electric makes it, you know, we make a lot of sense to be here. Well thank you. Thanks. Have you been down there? There are a bunch of vehicles down there and the owners, if you're curious to... Oh, there's still more. I am Lee Perry. I am the division director for DPW Maintenance. We are attending the EV Net Zero event. We brought our Chevy Bolt Admin car and Fire's Mach-E Mustang. These are vehicles that replace gas-powered vehicles in our fleet when they reach their useful life. We try to replace them with either an electric option or a hybrid, but we prefer the electric option like the Chevy Bolt here. So the city will replace vehicles that have electric options. Eventually we would like to have our recycling trucks be electric vehicles. The technology is close, but I don't think it's where we need it right now to replace those types of vehicles. Our large plow trucks don't have any electric options right now for our sidewalk tractors. Sweepers, they do have electric models, so when it comes time to replace the sweepers, we will look at those options. But yeah, you'll see our cars have the dots. We have 22 vehicles in different locations throughout Burlington. You'll see them popping up here and there, and more and more are becoming electric, which is cool. I'm here today at the Net Zero Energy Festival to talk to folks about Car Share Vermont. We are a local non-profit based here in Burlington. We provide an alternative to car ownership, and about half of our fleet are either fully electric or plug-in hybrids. So we're really excited about offering Burlington residents an opportunity to try out electric vehicle technology, but not have to own a car. We also serve low-income Vermonters that maybe aren't able to afford to buy a car, but still need access to transportation. So our mobility share program provides a free membership to residents of Burlington. If you receive three squares Vermont or live at Burlington Housing, Champlain Housing Trust, or Cathedral Square Housing, you automatically get a free membership to Car Share Vermont. And many of our locations are within walking, biking, or busing distance from where folks live. We have over a thousand members here in Burlington and 22 cars that are being shared, and we're continuing to add new locations every year. So we're excited to again make EVs really accessible and affordable for all Vermonters and all residents of Burlington. So I hope you can go to CarShareVT.org to learn more or swing by our office at 131 St. Paul Street. We're right downtown and we'd love to hear from you. I'm Dave Roberts. I work with the Drive Electric Vermont program. We're a partnership working to get more EVs in the state of Vermont. We work on charging infrastructure development and help support consumers making a purchase of an electric vehicle. So we have some great resources on our website, driveelectricvt.com, including a vehicle comparison tool that talks about the 40 plus models that are currently available in the state. We also have information on all the incentives. So there's federal, state, and electric utility incentive programs that can knock up to $14,000 or more off the purchase of a newer used electric car, both all electric and plug-in hybrid. And when you factor in all those incentives, that can bring the price of a new EV down to under $15,000 in some cases. The incentives are structured by income levels. So folks with lower income can qualify for higher incentives and there are incentives on used vehicles as well. There are a number of public charging places around the state currently over 300. The state is working on building out additional fast charging for electric vehicles, but most EV drivers charge at home overnight. That's the most convenient, least cost place to do it. And on average in Vermont, it's the equivalent of about $1.50 gallon gasoline, which is great right now with gas prices where they're at. And in some places like Burlington where we're at today, if you get on Burlington's special off-peak EV rate, that'll bring the cost down to the equivalent of about 80 cents a gallon gasoline. So it can save tons of money, have a great driving experience. EVs are great to drive, lots of fun, quiet, great performance. And I encourage folks to check them out at the local dealers or come out to an event like this, talk to owners, hear about their experience. They're just great cars to drive. Let me ask you one question. So if a person wanted to convert their house to be able to charge a vehicle at home, is that an exorbitant cost? So charging at home can be as simple as this device which comes with the vehicle just plugs into a standard 120 volt home outlet. That'll give you about five miles of range per hour of charging. So if you're driving more than 40 miles a day or you have a longer range electric vehicle, you might want to step up to what's called a level two charger. So that's 240 volt like an electric clothes dryer. And depending on your home and the situation with your electric panel that could cost anywhere from maybe $300 to $1,000. In some cases more if your electric service is really antiquated and needs to be upgraded. But for most folks it's a pretty reasonable cost and a number of electric utilities have programs that can help support customers getting that level two charging equipment installed. In some cases even the automakers will help support that. So for example Chevrolet has a program right now where they'll help pay for the installation of that level two equipment. Climbing trees around the power lines. Bad idea. Ryan Kites. That's it. Don't do it. You guys think it's pretty cool? It's real electricity. See I can touch it because I wear these rubber gloves. See how thick that is? You can feel it if you want. It's a thick rubber that's why I can touch the power lines. But without that you're going to get hurt so you can't do it. That's why you don't put anything off your house to cross the line. Yeah. Stay away from the power lines. That's all it's about. Hi there we're just here demonstrating some induction cooking which is not a super new technology but it's come a long way and it's going a long way to reduce carbon footprint so I guess Burlington Electric asked us from city markets to come down here and demonstrate this technology and how you can get one of these rather inexpensive countertop burners to use for your cooking at home instead of your expensive electric stove that burns all kinds of power or your gas burning stove that's burning carbon fuels. We're hoping to make a big difference. We're demonstrating a black bean and corn quesadilla here and we also have a second dish over here that is called the Shakshuka which is a North African simmered tomato, chickpea and egg dish with feta cheese. Hi we're down here at City Market at the Burlington Net Zero Electric Fest. We're always looking for new members so if you want to learn a bit about our membership benefits you can come down to customer service at our downtown or south end Flynn Ave store and learn a bit more about being a member. We love our over 12,000 members. So my name is Steve Wispam and I'm the founder of the MoElectric campaign and basically I am an advocate for transitioning to electric lawn care within the public and private sectors and so I was instrumental in convincing all the electric utilities in the state to create incentives slash rebates for electric lawn care products, mowers and all the yard tools and I just go to events like this and I have a website where it's a resource for people who are either trying to make the transition themselves or are trying to encourage their homeowners association or their town or their tennis club or anywhere where their church or college or school to consider switching to electric lawn care and we've gotten some success City of Burlington has begun the transition they own probably three or four mowers commercial electric lawn mowers UVM has begun the switch they own now three commercial electric mowers Shelburne Farms recently purchased two so it's definitely happening there's still a long way to go I think the state within the state agencies and departments there's only one they only own one electric mower so far so still a lot of work to do but it's becoming normalized now people recognize that not only do they work but they work really well and they're a lot less expensive to own and operate because there's little to no maintenance they're just relatively simple machines but powerful and able to do the job and so yeah things in the industry has also grown there's so many companies now as you could see that are offering manufacturing electric lawn care some companies are some of the legacy manufacturers like Toro and Gravely they're coming out with electric mowers and then there's some companies that just make electric mowers like Mean Green and Green Works and Ego so yeah that's where the industry is moving and it's been fun to be part of that change here in Vermont so that happens all the time and your electrician knows how to coordinate with our guys we just want to make sure everyone's safe once the meter gets pulled for any reason it comes back and we see it so we see it as an outage so we just want to make sure everything's okay yeah they'll coordinate with our services so we don't have to have the electric come out to our electrician I think the electrician can handle all of that there's just some notice thank you yeah hi I'm Kevin with Sun Common and I've been with Sun Common for about 10 years and what I do is I help people go solar so if you're interested in solar be happy to help you out but I work with both homeowners and business owners and you know meet with them to see if it makes sense to go solar what are the economics what are the ways to do it where would it go what size system all that good stuff and it can make a lot of sense you know if you've got the right kind of spot for it a nice ground area or a roof that is appropriate for solar a lot of folks that I talked to they want to go solar for environmental reasons but also to save money and you know you will save money over time there's some great incentives available as well and today I'm here at the EV event which we're cosponsoring with BED, Burlington Electric Department and Drive Electric Vermont so there's a lot of EVs here electric vehicles that's another great thing but today's technology is getting away from fossil fuels getting away from gas and oil and converting to clean electricity which is part of our mission and Sun Commons certified B Corp we've been around since 2013 or 2011 actually we're the largest installer in the state so we've helped about 8,000 homeowners go solar and keep growing more every day yeah it's good stuff Hey we're here at the Burlington NetZero event I'm Jacob this is Damon we're a couple of volunteers in the community we know there's a lot of old leaky windows in Burlington and we are putting on a community build to make these things window inserts that you can put in your windows, sop those drafts put a little more insulation in your windows and we know replacing windows is super expensive so this is a affordable alternative people who participate they come we got a couple of build days we're going to be at the Echo Center and everybody who comes to get these window inserts they come in they help build them and go home with some window inserts for their windows and by interested check out we have a nonprofit window dressers that comes and helps us organize all this and gets the materials together and makes the jigs go to their website right on their web page there's a sign up button we're going to be measuring windows a couple more weeks and then in November we're going to be doing the build so I hope to see you guys spread the word and stay warm out there hi my name is Peggy O'Neill Vivonco we're here at Burlington Electrics Net Zero Energy Fair and I'm representing Walk to Shop I'm actually affiliated with UVM's Transportation Research Center and Vermont Clean Cities and this coalition of Walk to Shop encourages walking for purpose and we have funding from Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission where we were able to purchase a container with these shopping trolleys and in these shopping trolleys we have two sizes the medium and the large that carry between 40 and 50 pounds of groceries or laundry or items to carry to the beach and they're able to go on buses walk on our sidewalks and really allow greater access to food and services for folks who use them we also have this map over here and on the map you'll see the centerpiece is a grocery store and the circle around it represents 1500 steps and that's about three quarters of a mile maybe a 15 minute walk and with a trolley instead of carrying your heavy groceries you put them in the trolley and it makes that 15 minute walk much more manageable. Carrying 20 pounds in a shopping trolley is a lot easier on your back and easy to maneuver up and down the sidewalks so we have these for sale and we are really supporting net zero energy here in Burlington and Greater Chittenden County Hi, Stu Lindsey with Locomotion and Valley Bike Parking we're at the BED Net Energy Zero conference to park bikes from the attendees that come in it's a great conference, reminds me very much of the energy fairs of the 1970s and 80s and interesting to just see how much activity there is within the alternative energy and electrical facilities Hi, my name is Mark Stevenson, I work with Vermont Energy we're out of Williston, Vermont and we sell heat pumps high efficiency gas systems and ventilation systems for homes and businesses throughout Vermont we're here today to support Burlington Electric and to support the goals of the net zero energy that both Burlington and the state of Vermont are looking at we sell cold climate heat pumps and essentially energy efficiency which helps us reduce our reliance on fossil fuels the heat pump industry is the next technology in heating at some point we're going to stop burning fossil fuels whether you agree with it or not it's just happening in the next 15 to 20 years we won't have gas furnaces or oil furnaces we'll be operating with heat pump technology we're the company that got in on the ground floor 20 years ago and innovated heat pump technology in Vermont Hi, I'm JP and I'm with North Star Sports we're in Burlington, Vermont at 100 Main Street I'm here at the Burlington Electric Festival and we're here showing off our electric assist bikes we do a bunch of bikes from companies in Europe such as Cube which is a bike brand from Germany built in Germany they use a Bosch system so a really reputable well-known brand for electric and here's another company this is Gazelle they're a Dutch company this is made in Netherlands again they use Bosch as well we're here to promote people getting on bikes and actually riding longer enjoying the rides flattening out those hills that they can't conquer and just having more of an enjoyment of riding again brought back to them and there's tons of different styles there's hybrids, there's mountain electric bikes there's road bike electric bikes there's step through bikes there's bikes that are step over there's so many different styles now and that's really where the industry's going there's bigger batteries for longer ranges smaller batteries for shorter ranges which makes them lighter but we've got tons of them in stock we've seen phenomenal growth in that category and that's where also companies are seeing phenomenal growth so the best thing to do is stop in the shop we will get you on a test ride see how you like it and kind of go from there and hopefully get you on a new bike there's one now is the next one going to stick or not that one's stuck you've got him lined up right that one's stuck too this kid's got her polarities figured out that was so funny what can we do if you want it to stick what you have to do I kind of like when they float though I like it too so here's the thing right because when they float if you can get them to float in your wire you can make electricity that's what this machine is measuring for us here but my arm's going to get really tired if this is how I'm making my electricity so we make it a little easier by spinning things this is a magnet and so is this round part I got a wire and I got a wire and I can spin my magnet past the wire with much less effort