Chicago kept its New Year’s resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power – Chicago Reader

The goal of sourcing the city’s power purely from carbon-free sources was first established by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2017. His successor, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, struck a 2022 deal with Constellation, an electricity supplier, to purchase the city’s energy from the developer Swift Current Energy beginning in 2025. Swift Current began construction on the 3,800-acre, 593-megawatt solar farm in central Illinois as part of the same five-year, $422 million agreement. Straddling two counties in central Illinois, the Double Black Diamond Solar project is now the largest solar installation east of the Mississippi River.
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Kwyjibo
1 year ago

“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. “

I guess 70% rounds up to 100%

Admin
1 year ago
Reply to  Kwyjibo

True, and that’s because those credits are the biggest scam going in the climate world. Basically, you send in a check to supposedly have forest land set aside in some poor nation, or something like that.

Tom Paine's Ghost
1 year ago
Reply to  Mark Glennon

They are the Climate Religion’s equivalent to Papal Indulgences.

Where's Mine ???
1 year ago

Article gives no figures on $premium$ taxpayers are spending for pols to virtue signal their green energy deals at city buildings. (many of which are 1/2 empty due to remote work, etc)?

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