Energising Cities: New Models for Driving Clean Energy Investment
This document is a guide for government officials, energy utility managers and community stakeholders to designing and financing a clean energy program. Many local and regional governments have committed themselves to targets for CO2 reduction and the increase of the share of renewable energy resources. This text describes how to develop, implement and finance clean energy programs with those aims. It also provides advantages and challenges of existing models, and additional resources to consult when developing a clean energy strategy.
Description
This report has been published by Climate Solutions, an American
NGO which has launched the New Energy Cities programme in 2009.
This programme aims to accelerate the transition to a clean,
renewable, efficient energy system in order to spur economic
development, reduce vulnerability to energy price swings, and
harness large-scale investment to upgrade the energy infrastructure
and built environment.
This report is meant as a guide that elucidates the steps that must
be taken to design and finance clean energy programs. The document
provides an overview of the choices, strategies, and processes
involved in implementing a clean energy programme, and analyses
innovative clean energy financing programmes that have been
developed. Furthermore, it describes the steps to take to develop
and finance a clean energy programme, and suggests internet
resources and literature that can guide the foundation of a clean
energy strategy.
The document emphasises that each community has its own set of
circumstances that will shape how it can create a programme that
will work, and the steps needed will emerge only through
experimentation. However, the report makes a strong case for moving
beyond piecemeal activity, and to shift to a much larger scale, one
that would be attractive to multiple forms of investment capital
and contribute to a substantial level of new economic activity.
Contact
For any questions, please refer to contact@newenergycities.org
Publication date
May 2010
Document type
Policy
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