As we round out an especially celebratory Earth Day Week, work at Public Citizen Texas is as fast-paced as ever. Though, today, our staff is pausing to celebrate a huge victory for all Austinites: yesterday, city council approved the Austin Energy Generation Plan.
Our staff worked their tails off to ensure that not only is the plan green and affordable but also that the process involved the public as much as possible.
We’re excited about the plan for its overarching goals:
1) Increase energy efficiency to 800 megawatts across the decade
2) Increase AE supply of renewable energy to 35% by 2020
3) Increase our solar production to 200 megawatts by 2020
4) Decrease our carbon emissions to 20% below 2005 levels by 2020
We’d particularly like to thank Matt Johnson and the Clean Energy for Austin coalition for all their hard work.
Now, the week in review… (more…)
