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Energy Resource Management

Overview

Metro relies on energy to operate our system - it powers our operational facilities, fuels our vehicles and runs our rail systems. The use and sourcing of that energy has ongoing impacts and longstanding implications for the environmental, fiscal and infrastructural resilience of our system. Metro's building energy consumption alone accounts for just over 100 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity consumption per year across our extensive inventory of facilities in LA County. These building operations are critical to support over 1.2 million weekday rail and bus transit patrons. As such, Metro is taking proactive measures to implement innovative energy conservation practices and technologies in buildings, while procuring and generating more clean, renewable sources of energy wherever possible.

Program Highlights

Leveraging Innovative Tools to Improve and Communicate Sustainability Performance
Metro Watchwire ESRI Dashboard Data automation and visualization tools will help us improve efficiency in reporting our sustainability performance and better enable our staff and the public to interact with our data.

Metro is working towards building efficiency and transparency into the way we report on our sustainability performance. In 2024, Metro launched a utility data analytics platform, Tango Energy & Sustainability, to procure and track real-time sustainability and energy performance data. This internal-facing platform, which supports our Office of Sustainability and our accounting teams, is designed to reduce time and costs associated with aggregating utility data to assess our resource use and spend.

At the same time, Metro partnered with Esri - a spatial analytics company - to develop an interactive data dashboard and mapping tool. The intent of these tools is to enable internal and external users to analyze Metro's sustainability performance and integrate those analyses with relevant geospatial mapping layers like bus routes, Equity Focus Communities (EFCs) and climate hazard data. When complete, this online dashboard will synchronize with the Tango Energy & Sustainability platform, allowing users to pull current data in real time.

Combined, these tools will improve efficiency in reporting our sustainability performance and better enable our staff and the public to interact with our data. It is our hope that this level of transparency will open up opportunities to better assess our performance and spur new ideas to cut down on resource use, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and improve operational efficiency across Metro.

2030 Targets

Understanding this Target

This target measures Metro's capacity to generate clean, renewable energy through onsite energy generation assets. Onsite renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, is a critical strategy contributing to both our climate and energy resiliency goals. As of 2020, Metro owned and operated 2.6 megawatts (MW) of solar PV across eight facilities. However, we are working aggressively to increase renewable energy generation capacity through installations at multiple operating divisions, the newly constructed Location 64 and the Airport Metro Connector by 2025. Together, these projects will help us achieve our 2030 goal of 7.5 MW of renewable energy generation - tripling 2020 generation levels. As a new target, Metro's renewable energy generation will be measured against this 2020 baseline.

Target Performance

Metro's onsite renewable energy generation capacity has remained constant over the last five years at 2.6 MW. However, we expect this to change within the next couple of years as Location 64 and the Airport Metro Connector project arrays come online. When the new solar array at Location 64 is commissioned and comes online, it will increase total generation capacity across the system to 2.9175 MW.

However, Metro's actual energy generation from its existing solar photovoltaic systems has increased over time. As Metro's solar PV operations and maintenance program has completed repairs across various solar arrays, electricity generation in 2024 increased by 7.65% from 2023. Despite this positive development, Metro remains behind schedule with respect to its onsite renewable energy generation target. Going forward, Metro's new Energy Master Plan will lay forward a path for future solar and storage projects to not only increase Metro's onsite renewable generation capacity, but also bolster Metro's systemwide energy resilience.

Overview

Metro relies on energy to operate our system - it powers our operational facilities, fuels our vehicles and runs our rail systems. The use and sourcing of that energy has ongoing impacts and longstanding implications for the environmental, fiscal and infrastructural resilience of our system. Metro's building energy consumption alone accounts for just over 100 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity consumption per year across our extensive inventory of facilities in LA County. These building operations are critical to support over 1.2 million weekday rail and bus transit patrons. As such, Metro is taking proactive measures to implement innovative energy conservation practices and technologies in buildings, while procuring and generating more clean, renewable sources of energy wherever possible.

Program Highlights

Leveraging Innovative Tools to Improve and Communicate Sustainability Performance
Metro Watchwire ESRI Dashboard Data automation and visualization tools will help us improve efficiency in reporting our sustainability performance and better enable our staff and the public to interact with our data.

Metro is working towards building efficiency and transparency into the way we report on our sustainability performance. In 2024, Metro launched a utility data analytics platform, Tango Energy & Sustainability, to procure and track real-time sustainability and energy performance data. This internal-facing platform, which supports our Office of Sustainability and our accounting teams, is designed to reduce time and costs associated with aggregating utility data to assess our resource use and spend.

At the same time, Metro partnered with Esri - a spatial analytics company - to develop an interactive data dashboard and mapping tool. The intent of these tools is to enable internal and external users to analyze Metro's sustainability performance and integrate those analyses with relevant geospatial mapping layers like bus routes, Equity Focus Communities (EFCs) and climate hazard data. When complete, this online dashboard will synchronize with the Tango Energy & Sustainability platform, allowing users to pull current data in real time.

Combined, these tools will improve efficiency in reporting our sustainability performance and better enable our staff and the public to interact with our data. It is our hope that this level of transparency will open up opportunities to better assess our performance and spur new ideas to cut down on resource use, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and improve operational efficiency across Metro.

2030 Targets

Understanding this Target

This target measures Metro's capacity to generate clean, renewable energy through onsite energy generation assets. Onsite renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, is a critical strategy contributing to both our climate and energy resiliency goals. As of 2020, Metro owned and operated 2.6 megawatts (MW) of solar PV across eight facilities. However, we are working aggressively to increase renewable energy generation capacity through installations at multiple operating divisions, the newly constructed Location 64 and the Airport Metro Connector by 2025. Together, these projects will help us achieve our 2030 goal of 7.5 MW of renewable energy generation - tripling 2020 generation levels. As a new target, Metro's renewable energy generation will be measured against this 2020 baseline.

Target Performance

Metro's onsite renewable energy generation capacity has remained constant over the last five years at 2.6 MW. However, we expect this to change within the next couple of years as Location 64 and the Airport Metro Connector project arrays come online. When the new solar array at Location 64 is commissioned and comes online, it will increase total generation capacity across the system to 2.9175 MW.

However, Metro's actual energy generation from its existing solar photovoltaic systems has increased over time. As Metro's solar PV operations and maintenance program has completed repairs across various solar arrays, electricity generation in 2024 increased by 7.65% from 2023. Despite this positive development, Metro remains behind schedule with respect to its onsite renewable energy generation target. Going forward, Metro's new Energy Master Plan will lay forward a path for future solar and storage projects to not only increase Metro's onsite renewable generation capacity, but also bolster Metro's systemwide energy resilience.