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Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power (grist.org)

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To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi River.

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[–] hash@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

In defence of this argument: I've thought the same thing about projects in my city. Like say there's capacity for new solar. The power company could build it and make a small impact on the power mix, or they could earmark it for a project/building and let them say they're "100% renewable."

Mostly just politics bs, but still feel like this could be somewhat deceptive in the wrong context.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Its not to say that new renewables arent good. It's just dishonest. Take a look at this paragraph:

Chicago alone has agreed to purchase approximately half the installation’s total output, which will cover about 70 percent of its municipal buildings’ electricity needs. City officials plan to cover the remaining 30 percent through the purchase of renewable energy credits.

So it's not "using 100% clean power" It's literally just earmarking (and funding)

[–] cron@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But how would you expect that a city can achieve "using 100% clean power" without earmarking? Should they run their own, independent power grid?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Should they? No. Need they? Yes.

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