Why Renewable Electricity?

Context:

Increasing Renewable Energy Supply = Less Reliance on Fossil Fuels = Cleaner Air in LA

The first step to fully decarbonizing our city is to get our electrical grid running on 100% renewables. Starting there helps us run everything else (transportation, buildings, etc.) on renewable energy.

We need to go from roughly 40% (January 2025) to 100% in 10 years i.e. an increase of 6% annually.

How do we get there?

1. Build more wind, solar, hydro farms.
2. Build more power storage infrastructure.
3. Build more transmission lines to get the power into Los Angeles.

Is the City on board?

Yes. Making our electrical grid 100% renewable is a part of the Green New Deal – a climate framework laid out for Los Angeles in 2019 during Mayor Eric Garcetti’s administration.

What the policy experts / advocacy groups are saying:

The LA100 Study, which was published in March 2021, was a public and private collaboration that has largely been accepted as the gold standard for Los Angeles and for US cities in general.

Study participants included: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the US Department of Energy (DOE), Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP,) University of Southern California, and Colorado State University.