The Model City

The City of Cambridge is helping to lead the movement on climate-change initiatives and efforts to cut energy use and global warming emissions.

In March 2007, the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts announced an ambitious goal: to reduce electricity demand by 50 megawatts and to reduce fossil-fuel consumption by 5 percent. The Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA) was established to help the City of Cambridge achieve these goals.  CEA promotes ambitious energy-efficiency retrofits and new clean energy sources necessary to achieve program’s goals through creative financing and partnerships with utilities and energy service companies. The City of Cambridge is a model community: taking the lead on climate change as an early adopter of a Climate Action Plan and commiting to deep greenhouse gas emissions reductions through programs like the Cambridge Energy Alliance.

Specifically, the Cambridge Energy Alliance aims to:

• reduce electricity demand by 50MW,
• reach a 15% peak load reduction; reduce annual electricity and water consumption by 10% city-wide;
• achieve a participation rate of 50% in each sector (e.g. municipal, commercial, residential); and
• reduce annual GHG emissions from the city by 150,000 tons (10%).

CEA is hoping the example it sets in Cambridge will ultimately become a model that other cities can use to reduce their energy consumption.

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