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Undaunted by COVID-19: 2020 City Clean Energy Trends & Stories
April 01, 2021
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In 2020, local governments across the U.S. made more than 140 renewable energy deals totaling over 3,600 megawatts – a 23% increase in the total amount of clean energy purchased by cities the previous year. These are the findings in new data from the Renewables Accelerator’s Local Government Renewables Action Tracker, a tool that catalogues renewable energy transactions completed by U.S. cities and counties since 2015.
Many of the cities and counties that secured these deals used new and innovative strategies to do so, ranging from aggregating their energy load with corporations, universities and other cities to sign large deals to promoting local jobs and training opportunities to encourage the development of new projects.