100% Renewable Truckee
Moving Truckee Towards A Renewable and Sustainable Future
100% Renewable Truckee's dedicated team of volunteers works with the Town of Truckee, the Truckee Donner PUD and other stakeholders to implement the following sustainability initiatives within the town of Truckee:
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transition to 100% renewable electricity town-wide by 2030
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transition to 100% renewable energy in all sectors town-wide by 2050
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80% reduction in carbon emissions from the 2019 baseline by 2040.
Latest News
May 11, 2021
Utilities at the Forefront
Canary Media: What's different about the utilities at the forefront of the energy transition?
April 1, 2021
Eight Benefits of Building Electrification
Rocky Mountain Institute list of reasons to electrify our buildings makes a powerful case.
January 5, 2021
GE's Monster Wind Turbine
General Electric has leap frogged the incumbent wind turbine developers with its gigantic new turbine.
May 27, 2018
Heat Pump Water Heater Performance Report
Energy 350: CO2 & Integrated Heat Pump Water
Heater Performance Report
May 7, 2021
California's Proposed Building Codes
Canary Media: California's proposed building code boosts all-electric, but it doesn’t stop natural gas
January 7, 2021
How 100% clean energy could power our cities and towns
Grist has produced a 6min video explaining how we can get to 100% clean energy
January 4, 2021
Path to 100
The organization Path to 100 has created a wonderful resource for North American decarbonization that includes a blog and guide to decarbonizing the electrical grid.
May 18, 2018
Electrify Everything Course
Nate Adams gives a soup to nuts electrification guide for single family homes
April 5, 2021
RMI Building Electrification
Rocky Mountain Institute has a whole collection of great articles on building electrification
January 6, 2021
Top 5 Green Building Words of 2020
BtheChange lists their top 5 Green Building Words of 2020
June 1, 2018
A Clean Path to the Future
How the Truckee Tahoe region will get to 100% renewables?