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Xcel Energy® PARTNERS IN ENERGY An Xcel Energy Community Collaboration Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Phase 1 — Plan Development Kayla Betzold City of Louisville 749 Main St Louisville, CO 80027 Congratulations on being selected to participate in Xcel Energy's Partners in Energy Decarbonization offering. This offering is designed to provide your community with the tools and resources necessary to develop and implement a Decarbonization Plan that reflects the vision your community has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) through the energy supply, building, and transportation electrification sectors. Participation is intended to span 24 months with the initial 9 months dedicated to developing a community -oriented Decarbonization Plan and the remaining time focused on implementing that plan. The intent of this Memorandum of Understanding is to confirm the City of Louisville's intent to participate in the initial planning phase of Partners in Energy and outline the commitment that your community and Xcel Energy are making to this collaborative initiative. The primary objective of this phase of Partners in Energy is to develop your Community Decarbonization Plan. In order to achieve this, Xcel Energy will provide: • Support of one virtual presentation to Louisville Sustainability Advisory Board (LSAB) to inform stakeholder group recruitment. • Consulting support to assist in identifying and recruiting a Community Decarbonization Stakeholder Group (stakeholder group) to participate in the planning process. • Data analysis of community data that are readily available and pertinent to the planning process, which may include demographics, equity measures, indicators of EV readiness, energy use, utility program participation, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to energy supply and use. • Professional facilitation of up to 4 plan development workshops with the stakeholder group to develop the Community Decarbonization Plan's (Plan) vision, focus areas, goals, targets, and implementation strategies. • Development of 1-2 key questions to integrate into a broad community survey as part of the Comprehensive Plan update effort and development of project fact sheet and facilitation instructions to support tabling at Comprehensive Plan open houses. • Strategy analysis to help the community prioritize identified strategies. This analysis may include up to two scenarios to estimate the GHG impacts of various strategies and high-level estimates of implementation cost for one scenario. This analysis will not include detailed engineering studies required for developing infrastructure plans or other purposes.