Pasadena California Volunteer Committee Creating Energy Road Map
Pasadena California City Hall
PASADENA - A volunteer committee and a hired energy consultant are working to create a road map for how Pasadena will meet its energy challenges in the future.
And there are many - from funding and building new power plants to reducing city dependency on coal power to bringing in new sources of green power.
All of these and several other challenges are being hashed out as the committee seeks to create a long-term energy plan and have it ready for the City Council to review by this spring.
At its most recent meeting, the committee looked at options for reducing greenhouse emissions linked to Pasadena’s power supplies. Working with a target year of 2020, the committee looked at four different plans that would theoretically reduce such emission by 30, 40, 60 and - in the most ambitious of the four options - 75 percent.
Solar City: L.A.’s Solar Power Push a Hint of What’s to Come?
November 25, 2008 by admin
Filed under Solar News
As President-elect Obama gears up for his big clean-energy push, it’s worth keeping an eye on California’s own green rush, especially since Golden State legislators hold key environment and energy positions in both houses of Congress.
Widespread installation of solar panels throughout Los Angeles will provide clean energy to homes and businesses in the city.
Take L.A.’s new solar-power initiative, announced yesterday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. His plan calls for L.A. to get 10% of its electricity from solar power in 2020, one of the most ambitious solar-energy targets anywhere. L.A.’s two-part plan calls for both big new solar plantations in the desert as well as a spate of smaller, rooftop installations across the city.
