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posted by mrpg on Thursday March 01 2018, @12:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the toward-a-cheaper,-less-polluting-future dept.

Common Dreams reports

More than 100 cities across the globe are now mostly powered by renewable energy, a number that has more than doubled over the past three years, according to a review of environmental data collected from entities worldwide.

The new analysis, a tally of information collected by the U.K.-based group CDP [Carbon Disclosure Project] and released [February 27], accounts for towns and cities that get at least 70 percent of their electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar. In addition to publishing its complete list, the group created an interactive map that features key details about some municipalities' transitions.

While only four U.S. cities made the list--Aspen, Colorado; Burlington, Vermont; Eugene, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington--the group says 58 localities in the United States have committed to a full transition. Among the largest cities on CDP's list are Auckland, New Zealand; Nairobi, Kenya; Oslo, Norway; and Vancouver, Canada. Forty-seven of the cities listed are located in Brazil. More than 40 cities--from Burlington to Reykjavik, Iceland to Basel, Switzerland--are fully powered by renewables.

[...] The new data reflects the rapidly growing trend to commit to a renewable energy transition at a local level. CDP noted in a statement that Tuesday's analysis "comes on the same day the UK100 network of local government leaders announce that over 80 UK towns and cities have committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2050, including Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, and 16 London boroughs".


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  • (Score: 1) by Gault.Drakkor on Thursday March 01 2018, @08:12PM

    by Gault.Drakkor (1079) on Thursday March 01 2018, @08:12PM (#645947)

    The article title and article are misleading.

    "at least 70 percent of their electricity" is most certainly not "Mostly Powered" where I would take "Mostly Powered" to mean ALL energy use.
    Any given large region (lots of state/province /country)electrical use is closer to 20% of total energy. The bulk of the non-electrical energy is via hydrocarbons( Energy_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org] -> hydrocarbon 86%).
    I would expect that for a city that the regional 20% of power begin electrical would also apply to cities. This suggests that a 70% renewable electricity is closer to 15%-20% of a cities total energy use.

    So while cool that progress is being made, it is being exaggerated.