Clean Energy Coming to a City Near You
Many of our American cities are looking for clean sources of energy and trying to make their energy usage more modern and efficient. We now have more information on how they plan to do that.
The non-partisan United States Conference of Mayors released their 2021 survey results on Leveraging New Technologies to Modernize Infrastructure and Improve Energy Efficiency in America’s Cities, which reported on how mayors are changing the way energy is used and generated in their cities.
The 103 U.S. mayors in this survey were asked to select the most promising technologies for reducing energy use and carbon emissions from a list of 20 options. More than half of them identified All-Electric Vehicles as the most promising.
Low-Energy Buildings (49%), Solar Electricity Generation (47%), and LED Lighting/Other Energy Efficient Lighting (43%) where the next three choices, with each achieving near majorities.
Solar electricity and LED lighting are two of the solutions we can help provide at Van Meter. In the survey, solar electricity was voted as the technology “receiving top priority in the next six months.” Regarding LED lighting, some of the top listed benefits were cost saving, carbon emission reduction, longevity, and lower maintenance costs.
The majority of mayors surveyed agreed that the primary reasons cities are developing renewable energy systems are Carbon Emission Reductions (87%), Climate Resiliency (81%), Cost Savings (66%) and Grid Reliability (53%).
