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San Diego vows to use 100 percent Renewable Energy by 2020 |
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Currently problems have been rising due to lack of energy supplies worldwide. Last year, in Paris COP 21, representatives of 195 countries reached notable compromise to lower the greenhouse gas emissions rate. Under the Paris accord, many participating nations offered vague, general, nonbinding plans without specific plans or reinforcement to reduce their carbon emissions. Respecting this compromise, local leaders in San Diego committed to use the renewable energy entirely in 20 years. Influenced from Paris compromise, San Diego, the eighth-largest city in United States, decided to fully use renewable energy with unanimous approval, becoming the largest American municipality to transition to use 100% renewable energy, including wind and solar power. Many environmental organizations viewed this action as practical as well as symbolic decision. Many other notable cities, such as New York and San Francisco have claimed to use more renewable energy, but San Diego is the first of them to make pledge legally binding. Under this ordinance, San Diego committed to complete its transition and cutting its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. In order to achieve this goal, the city suggests that one of the ways includes transferring some control of power management to the city from the local utility. The officials said they would shift half of the city?s fleet to electric vehicles by 2020 and recycle 98 percent of the methane produced by sewage and water treatment plants. The city mayor Kevin L. Faulconer claimed that Environmental attributes and San Diego?s ocean and sunshine are in our fabric, our DNA, who we are. He has a plan saying that transforming the electric grid would drive the economy and create jobs. Not specific plans have been determined yet. But the mayor suggested that the initiative steps are to commit to a goal to make sure we set it and hold to it. As San Diego commits to the renewable energy, California can begin to build its bank of carbon reductions and contribute to global goals. The director of the Sierra Club?s clean energy campaign in California, Evan Gillespie, estimated that San Diego?s plan would lead to an annual reduction of seven million metric tons of greenhouse gases, a contribution to California?s broader effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. These goals are California?s own goals, passed by its state government and not by its federal government, that are credited as one of the most ambitious on climate change, and that is as influential as many countries given its size. Credit: San Diego Vows to Move Entirely to Renewable Energy in 20 years, The New York Times |
 
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17 Comments
Nice and lucid! interesting report:)
Posted 19-03-2016 00:37
@Soyeon,
I definitely agree with you, It's easy for people to claim something but harder part is to get work done, but again I'm really happy that they are taking initiative steps, starting is half the journey right haha :)
Posted 17-03-2016 16:26
@Rahul, yeah, I hope greater steps will be taken from other countries as well!
Posted 17-03-2016 16:24
@Rohan, Thank you for ur time to read this article!
I really hope other cities around will be motivated as well )
It is definitely the environment that becomes the foundation of everything around us
Posted 17-03-2016 16:23
@HeonJoon,
I definitely agree with you, San Diego is taking notable plan setting a milestone :)) I know a lot of cities around me is already taking great steps for environmental conservation, we have a lot of local organizations and city councils committed to save our environment and I'm really happy to see that. Have a great day as well :)
Posted 17-03-2016 16:16
@John,
I hope this intiative step will motivate other cities around to spread this environmental-friendly action and start from the local level to keep the promises of COP 21 :)) I know it would've been somewhat touch decision or San Diego to reinforce this action but I definitely think they have done woderfuljob,
thx for reading!
Posted 17-03-2016 16:10
@Gallimard,
I hope to inform you with more details in the future :)
Posted 17-03-2016 16:08
@Arushi, It is defnitely )
It is such a great plan, I just hope it's actually practical and we get good results out of it, I wish I knew more details about it, but I'm sure they'll come up with precise action plans xD
Posted 17-03-2016 16:05
@Minjoo,
I'm proud of San Diego a well for putting such an impressive effort to use eco-friendly energy :) I didn't really figure out specific details of their procedure in doing so but I'm really glad they are taking notable initiative to work on it :))
Posted 17-03-2016 16:04
Thank you for writing such a nice article!
It's nice that San Diego is trying to make a lot of differences. I think the hardest part of this decision is using green energy instead of fossil fuels. Even though the city tries to change most of the cars using fossil fuels, the citizens should first realize what they should do in order to save the Earth. This case (San Diego) is the city that every cities should admire. Thanks again. Nice work!:))
Posted 14-03-2016 22:35
In 2nuears. Kudos to this decisiin and hope for the success. I wish this ideas to be implemented bynother countries as well
Posted 14-03-2016 21:07
That's great news Yuna! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing information with us...And I completely agree with San Diego's mayor, Kevin Faulcner, that it is truly the environment that constitutes us and makes us what we are. Our body has come from the environment and shall go back to it...Great success story though! I hope more cities can emerge this way.
Posted 14-03-2016 01:15
Hi Yuna, thanks for posting and taking time to do background search to write this. Thanks to you now I know San Diego is heading toward a great transition. What surprises me the most is that the city representatives unanimously approved of this change. As I see this as a sign of high environmental awareness of the voters, I think the road toward a greener city is smooth(er than the other cities around the world that claimed to be one). Thank you for sharing this great news and hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Posted 13-03-2016 23:54
This a new milestone for humanity, even it was just in San Diego. This decision would surely set an example to other areas, as it becomes contagious. Symbolic is the word to describe this, indeed! Thank you, Yuna!
Posted 13-03-2016 10:41
This is a proof that environmental prospectives can marry our political and economical horizons.
Well done San Diego.
Hope forward hearing from sooner again!!!
Posted 13-03-2016 06:36
This is a wonderful news. It is very ambitious but with the plans like shifting half of the city's fleet to electric vehicles , recycling 98 percent of the methane produced by sewage and water treatment plants-I am sure San Diego will achieve it. It would be great as it would lead to an annual reduction of seven million metric tons of greenhouse gases. With the current state of global warming and climate change , all the countries need to have such plans in place and need to act on them. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 13-03-2016 00:10
Yuna, it is a great news that San Diego has made a legal promise to utilize only renewable energy, which none of the member state or city has yet pledged to do so. I am curious how the city is planning to carry the cost, since green energy is much more expensive than the current fossil fuels. Also, how can transferring power management to the urban area enable cutting greenhouse gases? I am so much interested in San Diego's courageous decision, and let me know about the details. Keep up the good work :-)
Posted 12-03-2016 21:15