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default.asp viewed 15 April 2013; New York from “This Week
in Clean Economy: NYC Takes the Red Tape Out of Building
Green,” InsideClimateNews.org, 4 May 2012; Lancaster from
“California City Wants to Require Solar on Every New Home,”
GreentechMedia.com, 1 March 2013.
123 “Solar Water Heater Companies in India to Shine as Indian Cities
(Surat, Kolkata) make SWH Mandatory,” GreenWorldInvestor.
com, 28 September 2012; “Solar water heaters must in all Surat
buildings,” Times of India, 17 September 2012.
124 City of Johannesburg, “Launch of Solar Water Heating Programme
by City Power,” press release (Johannesburg: 8 October 2012).
125 Sustainable Energy Africa, “EEP Solar Water Heater implementation
in City of Cape Town,” www.sustainable.org.za/index.
php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=98,
viewed 14 April 2013.
126 Beijing from “New Buildings in Beijing Next Month and the
Mandatory Installation of Solar,” 27 February 2012, at http://
news.dichan.sina.com.cn/2012/02/27/447929.html; Kyoto from
Yamashita and Furuya, op. cit. note 102, and from Shota Furuya,
ISEP, Tokyo, personal communication with REN21, 4 February
2013.
127 “NYC biodiesel-blended heating oil requirement starts Oct. 1,”
biodieselmagazine.com, 1 October 2012.
128 Chris Baber, “Low Carbon District Energy in Vancouver,”
presented at Sustainable Cities International Symposium
2012, Vancouver, British Columbia, 5 October 2012, at www.
metrovancouver.org/2012SCI/Program/Presentations/Energy-
LowCarbonDistrictEnergy-ChrisBaber.pdf.
129 Braedstrup from SDH Solar District Heating, “Braedstrup Solar
Park in Denmark is now a reality!” 25 October 2012, at www.
solar-district-heating.eu; Dunedin from Ralph Sims, Massey
University, Palmerston North, personal communication with
REN21, January 2013, and from “Clean Heating for Otago,” Otago
Bulletin, 5 October 2012, p. 3, at www.otago.ac.nz.
130 Aberdeen from “Planning permission granted for 2 biomass CHP
plants in the U.K.,” biomassmagazine.com, 23 January 2013;
Aarhus from Urban Energy Solutions, “Aarhus and Copenhagen –
Energy Efficiency Landmarks for Europe,” 14 February 2013, at
http://blog.ramboll.com/urbanenergysolutions/innovation-and-technology/aarhus-and-copenhagen-energy-efficiency-landmarks-for-europe-4.html.
The U.S. city of Montpelier,
Vermont, also announced in 2012 that it will install a central
district energy system to provide heat and power, per U.S.
Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy,
“City of Montpelier Project,” January 2012, at http://www1.eere.
energy.gov/office_eere/communityre/montpelier.html.
131 “Solar Update,” Newsletter of the International Energy Agency
Solar Heating and Cooling Programme, June 2012, pp. 6–7, at
http://archive.iea-shc.org/publications/downloads/2012-06-SolarUpdate.pdf.
132 Philippine Information Agency, “City council endorses construction
of third geothermal plant in Kidapawan City,” 22 May 2012, at
www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=2301337663334.
133 City of Philadelphia, “Mayor Nutter Cuts Ribbon on Wastewater
Geothermal Heating Project,” 13 April 2012, at http://cityofphiladelphia.wordpress.com.
134 “City Utility Push Germany’s Switch to Renewables,”
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, October 2012.
135 Mexico City further developed a Bus Rapid Transit system in 2012;
Guangzhou in China started to provide a subsidy incentive of USD
1,700 for the purchase of hybrid cars, and restricted the number
of new car registrations to 120,000 per year, reserving 10% for
electric, hybrid, and plug in vehicles; and Bogota, Venezuela and
Mexico City launched all-electric taxi fleets. Mexico City from
Renewable Energy Mexico, “Mexico City welcomes its first fleet
of electric cabs,” May 2012, at www.renewableenergymexico.
com/?p=275; Ghangzhou from “Chinese city offers hybrid subsidy
to boost sales,” Christian Science Monitor, 17 August 2012; Bogota
from “Bogotá Launches All-electric Taxi Fleet Using Long-Range
BYD e6 Cross-over Sedan,” BusinessWire.com, December 2012.
136 “Curitiba Unveils Hybrid Bus at Rio 20 Conference,”
Curitiba in English, 15 June 2012, at http://curitibainenglish.com.br/government/urban-mobility/
curitiba-unveils-hybrid-bus-at-rio-20-conference/.
137 Amsterdam aims to be 100% fossil fuel-free by 2040, so all of its
EV charging stations will be 100% renewables powered, per “Top
EV-Friendly Cities: What Are They Doing Right?” Climate Progress,
July 2012 at http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/03/510344/
top-ev-friendly-cities-what-are-they-doing-right.
138 Barcelona from “World’s First Wind Powered EV Charging Station
Installed in Barcelona,” oilprice.com, 21 August 2012; Melbourne
from “Is Australia ready for the electric car,” SmartPlanet.com, 27
June 2012.
139 Panasonic, “Panasonic to Establish Fujisawa Town Management
Company with Its Partner Companies,” press release (Tokyo: 1
October 2012).
140 “City Utility Push Germany’s Switch to Renewables,”
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 4 October 2010; Siemens and
Stadtwerke München, “Stadtwerke München and Siemens Jointly
Start Up Virtual Power Plant,” press release (Nuremberg and
Munich: 4 April 2012).
141 Buzios from Endesa, “The Chairman of Endesa inaugurates Latin
America’s first smartcity in Brazil,” press release (Rio de Janeiro:
21 November 2012); Santiago from Tendencias, “Chilectra presenta
proyecto de Smartcity,” 7 January 2013, at www.latercera.
com/noticia/tendencias/2013/01/659-502371-9-chilectra-presenta-proyecto-de-smartcity-santiago.shtml.
142 carbonn Climate Cities Registry, “carbonn Climate Cities Registry
November 2012 Update,” at http://citiesclimateregistry.org.
143 C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, “C40 Welcomes Oslo,
Vancouver, Venice and Washington, DC as New Members” (New
York: 4 December 2012); EU Covenant of Mayors, “Sustainable
Energy Action Plans,” www.covenantofmayors.eu/about/
signatories_en.html, viewed March 2013; Mexico City Pact,
“Signatories,” www.mexicocitypact.org/en/the-mexico-citypact-2/list-of-cities/,
viewed March 2013.
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