UD-22-02

The Council believes that in order to mitigate climate change it is important that the City work to utilize 100% renewable and clean energy to power city buildings. They opened this docket to determine how to best make that transition.

The Alliance commends this effort to power city facilities with 100% renewable and clean energy. We want to note, as we have in the past, that not all resources touted as renewable and clean are equally so. In order to realize the full benefits of renewable energy for our city the Council must exclude dirty, expensive technologies, such as methane and nuclear power, for affordable distributed technologies, such as solar and wind. The Council must also utilize resources that reduce energy demand. This will help not only to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but will provide real resilience in a changed climate.