{"id":3922,"date":"2021-11-15T15:28:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","slug":"pittsburgh-outlines-energy-strategy-in-new-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/pittsburgh-outlines-energy-strategy-in-new-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh outlines energy strategy in new document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pgevoke-story-byline-left\">\n<div class=\"pgevoke-story-byline-text\">\n<div class=\"pgevoke-story-byline-line1\">by Hallie Lauer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov 13, 2021.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Pittsburgh\u2019s energy strategy now has been extended to private developers.<\/p>\n<p>In a document released Saturday, the city says it wants private entities to submit climate and energy-efficiency plans along with building plans. It\u2019s part of a Climate Energy Strategy the city hopes to implement over the next four years. Ideally, developers would detail how they planned to meet goals that, in addition to energy efficiency, would include having on-site renewable electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p>The city isn\u2019t mandating that developers submit these plans, according to Flore Marion, an energy planner who helped develop the strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome [developers] have already started doing it; we\u2019re suggesting that others do as well,\u201d Ms. Marion said.<\/p>\n<p>The city planning department\u2019s division of Sustainability and Resilience finalized the energy strategy as a way to implement long- and short-term goals outlined in its Climate Action Plan, which was released in 2018 and seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and generally make the city more sustainable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engage.pittsburghpa.gov\/city-energy-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Energy Strategy Document<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Andrew Rush\/Post-Gazette<\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/city\/2021\/11\/13\/Pittsburgh-outlines-energy-strategy-in-new-document\/stories\/202111130049?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=editors-picks-local-frontpage&amp;utm_campaign=Headlines-Newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh\u2019s energy strategy now has been extended to private developers.  In a document released Saturday, the city says it wants private entities to submit climate and energy-efficiency plans along with building plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenhouse","category-pa_pgh_news","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}