Los Angeles region to accelerate clean energy efforts in run-up to 2028 Olympics

Dive Brief:

• Los Angeles-region city and county governments, energy providers and other groups on Wednesday published a road map to hasten greenhouse gas emissions reductions in advance of the Summer Olympics coming to Southern California in 2028.
• The road map charts a path for accelerating building electrification, deploying distributed clean energy generation and developing local grid resilience.
• The document establishes several new, specific targets, from the number of heat pump installations in the region to the number of jobs to be created, said Matt Petersen, co-chair of the Clean Energy Partnership, the public-private group that published the road map. “High-level policies have been passed at the state and local level, but to detail how we’re going to get there, it hasn’t been done before.”

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Source: Utility Dive

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