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U.S. Conference of Mayors – Clean Energy Solutions for America’s Cities

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The United States Conference of Mayors Clean Energy Solutions
for America’s Cities – A summary of survey results, June 2011

  • “Most mayors expect their cities’ deployments of new energy technologies to increase over the next five years, despite today’s economic climate. Three in four cities (75%) say their use of new energy technologies is likely to grow, with more than one-quarter (27%) of the 396 cities in this survey expecting the increase to be “significant”. Cities in the Northeast and South anticipate faster growth, but there is little difference across cities—small and large cities alike expect to be deploying more clean technology in five years than they do currently. Only three percent of cities expect their use of new energy technologies to decrease during this period.
    LED/efficient lighting is the top choice among mayors as the most promising of new technologies for reducing energy use and carbon emissions. Three-quarters of all cities (76%) in the survey place LED/efficient lighting technologies at the top of the list of most promising new technologies to advance these priorities. The prominence of lighting technologies correlates directly to local experience with these technologies, with the survey showing that a substantial majority of cities (85%) already deploy LED lighting, findings that suggest wider use of this technology by cities in the near future. After lighting, two in three cities (68%) choose low-energy building technologies as the next most promising opportunity to curb energy use and carbon emissions. Other technologies named as most promising include: solar systems to generate electricity (46%), energy-efficient appliances, pumps, and other systems (44%), and hybrid vehicles (40%). Of these selections, only solar electricity generation ranks higher than actual city experience in deploying it.”
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