Georgetown Goes All In on Renewable Energy

[TexasTowelie]

A Central Texas city is waving goodbye to fossil fuels.

Georgetown’s municipal utility on Wednesday unveiled plans to abandon traditional electricity sources like coal and gas power plants, instead exclusively tapping wind and solar energy to meet all of its customers’ power needs. It is the state's first city-owned utility to make that leap.

The city announced a 25-year deal with SunEdison, the world’s largest renewable energy company, to buy 150 megawatts of solar power beginning next year. The company said it would build a solar farm in West Texas to meet the demand.

Last year, Georgetown signed a contract for 144 megawatts of wind energy through 2039. That electricity comes from an EDF Renewables wind farm 50-miles west of Amarillo.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/18/georgetown-goes-all-renewable-energy/

[font color=green]My alma mater signed a contract to rely on 100% wind power in 2010 (http://www.southwestern.edu/live/news/1992-a-historic-moment-for-southwestern). It's nice to see the rest of the community switch to renewable energy also.[/font]

[Thinkingabout]

1. This is very good news. Hopefully others will soon follow and the price to develop will go down.

[misterhighwasted]

2. This is where they all need to be. Cities can do this across the country.

I have seen some Energy Cos recently buying into Solar farms.
Xcel Energy of Texas & NextERA Energy in New Mexico's Solar Farm

Standing Rock Reservation on the edge of the giant Bakken Field in North Dakota is building a 2 million dollar renewable energy project.

Others include Bangkok, North Carolina, & Pa.

This link tells the plans these Cities have in mind for renewables, and a few more.
http://bakken.com/news/id/category/energy/solar/

This is the transition, tho slowly & without much media noise, that shows us people are paying attention and taking Climate change seriously.
I hope to see the day when a State or City who is still using fossil fuels, who have not begun some move towards renewable, are in the minority.
I am sure it will get there, because that movement has already begun & there will be no turning those who have succeeded, back to dirty fossil fuels.