PowerNow Greater Sudbury is an 18 month community-wide planning project to create Greater Sudbury’s local, clean energy future. The goal is to explore energy opportunities as a community, and create a vision for a local energy future that supports jobs and local economic development while improving quality of life and addressing climate change impacts.
The project will bring together: energy experts, City staff and officials, local business and institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and the community.
PowerNow Greater Sudbury is an 18 month community-wide planning project to create Greater Sudbury’s local, clean energy future. The goal is to explore energy opportunities as a community, and create a vision for a local energy future that supports jobs and local economic development while improving quality of life and addressing climate change impacts.
The project will bring together: energy experts, City staff and officials, local business and institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and the community.
Greater Sudbury’s Community
Energy and Emissions Plan has been developed in response to a strategic
priority of Council to provide leadership in the development and promotion of
ideas, policies and actions that will mitigate the impact of climate change.
Council has voted unanimously to declare a climate
emergency to protect the local economy, ecosystems and community from climate
change. Staff has been directed to present a report by year end that describes
an adaptation and mitigation plan with input from residents.
Greater Sudbury’s Community Energy and Emissions Plan (CEEP)
will determine required actions and investments to achieve a net-zero emissions
target by the year 2050. The goal is to reduce carbon emissions to as close to
zero as possible and to offset any leftover emissions through renewable energy
production, regreening and new technologies.
The draft Community Energy and Emissions
Plan is open for review, comment and additional ideas until December 7, 2019.