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Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power (grist.org)
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To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi River.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

But how would you expect that a city can achieve "using 100% clean power" without earmarking? Should they run their own, independent power grid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Should they? No. Need they? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The important difference is that the power is allocated to a specific small subset of very public buildings rather than a municipality or even a neighborhood.