This guidance document provides a framework for and addresses frequently asked questions related to setting a renewable electricity goal.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Protocols
ICLEI’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Protocols provide standards and tools to help cities quantify their emissions.
Portfolio Manager
ENERGY STAR’s Portfolio Manager is a free software suite which can help cities monitor their energy and water usage and identify energy efficiency opportunities.
Community Power Map
This map shows the locations of community solar projects as well as municipal utilities, community choice aggregations, PACE programs, and some city goals.
Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator
A tool designed to help low emitters develop an organization-wide inventory and create a plan to ensure greenhouse gas emissions data consistency, while tracking progress toward reaching an emissions reduction goal.
Framework for an Equitable Energy Supply Transformation
This framework can help cities embed equity in city energy supply transformation to low or zero carbon sources. The guide helps users understand potential policy and program impacts via the lenses of procedural, distributional, structural, and transgenerational equity, and includes themed sets of guiding questions city staff and other stakeholders can consider when developing plans and policies for transforming their energy supply to meet their climate goals.
Equity Foundations
This webpage helps local government staff to apply an equity lens to a sustainability project, including choosing a good project, communicating about the project and racial equity, building a team, applying proven equity tools, and designing the project to embed an equity lens in local government practice.
WattTime
WattTime’s more granular, real-time emissions data resources can assist cities in making more accurate and nuanced assessments of the potential greenhouse gas emissions impact of prospective projects.
Energy Resource Maps
NREL’s maps provide useful insights into the amount of solar insolation, average wind speeds, and other available renewable resources across the U.S.
Guide to Purchasing Green Power: Chapter 6
Chapter 6 of this U.S. EPA guide outlines the key criteria to use when evaluating project developers and important contract terms.