PUBLISHED
March 22, 2013
Mayor of C40 city Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa announced Wednesday the city’s plan — approved Tuesday by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners — to be coal-free by the year 2025. Los Angeles currently meets 39% of its energy demand from two coal plants, one in Utah and another in Arizona. According to the new plan, the Department of Water and Power (DWP) will end the Arizona contract by 2015 and convert the Utah plant to natural gas by 2025.
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PUBLISHED
December 27, 2012
For 2012 we were fortunate to have a number of our C40 Mayors share the efforts of their cities via the Mayors Voices segment on our blog.
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PUBLISHED
October 05, 2012
Los Angeles: home of the freeway and land of the Range Rover. But look a little closer, and you’ll quickly see that LA is undergoing a transit revolution that’s fundamentally changing how we connect our communities. We’re laying the foundation to get Angelenos out of their cars, into public transportation and onto green space.
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PUBLISHED
December 08, 2011
Last night, Huffington Post Impact ran a piece by C40-CCI finance director Scott Henderson describing the job creation and energy saving potential in a new Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. The cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco just recently announced the implementation of innovative, “open-market” PACE programs that have been developed in conjunction with C40 and CCI. Scott had this to say about it:
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PUBLISHED
October 12, 2011
The City of Los Angeles, a C40 City, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today announced a major expansion of the city’s efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions from the city’s commercial buildings. The LA Commercial Building Performance Partnership will enable building owners to access free energy assessments, as well as financing at competitive rates to cover up to 100 percent of the cost of their energy upgrades. The program builds on PACE (Property-Assessed Clean Energy) Financing programs that have shown success across the country.
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