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Decarbonizing Buildings: Ithaca's Ambitious Plan to Reach 100% Electrification by 2030

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Utility Dive

Inside Ithaca’s plan to electrify 6,000 buildings and grow a regional green workforce using private equity funds

By Robert Walton 06/02/22

Ithaca, New York, made headlines last year when its city council voted to fully decarbonize. Achieving the 2030 goal will require grid decarbonization, electrifying transportation and rolling out heat pumps to the city’s 6,000 aging…

Utilitydive

Inside Ithaca’s plan to electrify 6,000 buildings and grow a regional green workforce using private equity funds

By Robert Walton 06/02/22

Ithaca is known for its progressive politics — in the 90s the city pioneered a time-based currency to inspire local spending, for example. But the decarbonization plan is among its most ambitious efforts, according to…

WXXI NEWS

Reshaping Rochester: What can we learn from Ithaca’s Green New Deal?

By Rebecca Evans 05/24/22

The City of Ithaca has a Green New Deal. The goal is carbon neutrality by 2030. We talk with a city leader and sustainability experts about how they plan to meet that goal. It's a…

The Atlas

Ithaca Forms Strategic Initiative to Electrify 6,000 buildings

By City of Ithaca 05/05/22

Ithaca, New York, recently became the first city in the world to commit to electrifying all its buildings, a key step in Ithaca’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Situated in New York’s Finger Lakes region…

EESI

Ithaca’s Creative Approach to Financing Carbon Neutrality Goals

By Isabella Eclipse and Alison Davis 03/28/22

Ithaca, a small city and college town in upstate New York, is taking action to dramatically reduce its carbon emissions. In 2019, Ithaca passed its version of the Green New Deal and committed to achieving…

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New York municipality to electrify all buildings in bid to decarbonize

By Jay Landers 01/18/22

NPR

To fight climate change, Ithaca votes to decarbonize its buildings by 2030

By Deepa Shivaram 11/06/21

Ithaca is the first U.S. city to establish such a plan, which the city says will cut Ithaca's 400,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide emissions by 40%. The timeline to achieve its goal is…

Market Watch

Here’s the first U.S. city to swap gas and oil for all-electric buildings, on the path to zero carbon emissions

By Rachel Koning Beals 11/04/21

Ithaca, the upstate New York city of about 30,000, known for Cornell University and the natural beauty of its gorges, will be the first in the country to try to decarbonize every last one of…

The Washington Post

This U.S. city just voted to decarbonize every single building

By Tik Root 11/03/21

Late Wednesday night, the city of Ithaca, N.Y., voted to electrify and decarbonize its buildings. It’s the first such initiative of its kind in the country.

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governor.ny.gov

Governor hochul signs legislative package to spur energy efficiency, consumer savings, and greenhouse gas emission reductions while supporting prevailing wage measures

07/05/22

Governor Kathy Hochul today signed a legislative package of three bills that will strengthen New York's commitment to clean energy development and energy efficiency, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Governor signed the bills at…

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Green New Deal

06/09/22

The world is on track for 3oC of global warming. To avoid the most severe impacts of a changing climate, we must work together to limit warming to 1.5oC. Globally, we need to get to…

CSG EAST

Decarbonizing Buildings: Ithaca’s Ambitious Plan to Reach 100% Electrification by 2030

02/28/22

In this webinar, Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres, sustainability director of Ithaca, New York, provided a presentation on the city’s first-in-the-nation plan to decarbonize all of its buildings by 2030. As part of the plan, the city…