A Clean Energy Future by 2040
Louisville Metro Government is committed to 100% renewable energy
With the passage of the 100% Renewable Energy resolution in February 2020, Louisville joined hundreds of other cities across the nation making the commitment to investing in clean, renewable energy for our community with the passage of three goals:
100% clean electricity for Louisville Metro Government operations by 2030
100% clean energy for Louisville Metro Government operations by 2035
100% clean energy community-wide by 2040
Click on one of the three goals below to learn about Louisville Metro’s efforts and how you can be a part of a clean energy future.
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2030
Louisville Metro has partnered with the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop a roadmap for achieving 100% clean electricity across all city government operations by 2030.
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2035
The city is strongly focused on phasing out fossil fuels by exploring clean energy options for all city operations. This includes electrifying Louisville Metro’s vehicle fleet and our heating and cooling systems.
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2040
Buy-in from businesses and residents is critical to meeting the goal of 100% clean energy community-wide. That is why the city will encourage private investment in clean energy through new and existing programs.
Why 100% clean, renewable energy?
This chart shows the drastic increase in the number of days with temperatures above 90 degrees over several decades in Louisville.
Human influence has unequivocally warmed the planet.
Climate science is getting better and more precise.
We are locked into 30 years of worsening climate impacts.
Climate changes are happening rapidly.
There’s still a window in which we can alter the climate path if we begin drastically reducing fossil fuel use in the next four years.
(Sources: New York Times, 5 takeaways from the major new U.N. climate report, August 9, 2021; IPCC, 2021: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. In Press.)