Thread: Las Vegas just became the largest US city to run solely on renewable energy
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Old 12-22-2016, 04:51 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Linkster View Post
Rather misleading

quote: 100% of the city's municipal power, excluding commercial and residential buildings.

Commercial and residential is somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of the power consumption in Las Vegas - 15% of that comes from Hoover Dam, the rest from the normal grid which is supplied by gas and coal fired plants.

I agree that it is a step in the right direction, but it's way overstated in that article
They need to put up more panels. In places like Vegas Solar, Wind and the Hoover Dam can cut out most of the gas and coal-fired plants. They should press on with it.
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