City of Asheville shares Energy Tips on this National Energy Efficiency Day
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Department: Sustainability
Consider paper bags or reusable containers for leaf season this year
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Who’s up this week on What’s Up AVL
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Earth Day is just around the corner!
The Office of Sustainability invites you to join in the fun of making a cleaner, greener Asheville at home, at work, and in our community. There are many ways to make small changes with big impact to the health and quality of our environment. Below are a few examples and a super fun opportunity to join in the fun. Earth Day is this Friday and it's not too late to schedule your earth action!
City of Asheville completes aggregated solar project
Recently the City of Asheville “flipped the switch” on a photovoltaic array, commonly known as solar panels, at the Linwood Crump Shiloh Community Center on Shiloh Road. This is the fifth City facility to include onsite renewable energy production. This completes the City’s portion of projects included in the joint initiative to install solar panels on City of Asheville, Buncombe County, Asheville City Schools, Buncombe County Schools and AB-Tech facilities.
Bridget Herring named as Sustainability Director
City Manager Debra Campbell is pleased to announce that Bridget Herring has been named as the new Sustainability Director.
City of Asheville sweeps into Spring
The City of Asheville is pleased to team up with Asheville Greenworks and other organizations in multiple efforts to keep Asheville green and clean. Register to be a part of the team.
Office of Sustainability shares Asheville’s Local Government Clean Energy Report
The report also compares the progress made locally with other NC metropolitan areas. It is great to see all our local NC communities advance the installation of renewable energy.
Office of Sustainability shares results of Solarize Asheville Buncombe campaign
The City of Asheville is one of over 180 local governments that are members of the Urban Sustainability Network (USDN). One of the recent initiatives of the USDN was a partnership with World Resources Institute and Rocky Mountain Institute to implement a renewable accelerator residential solar cohort that provided technical assistance (including analyzing rooftop solar economics and tracking campaign equity impacts) to local governments implementing a bulk purchasing solar program. The City of Asheville was one of twenty-one local governments selected to participate in the cohort.
Real Time Data from new solar installations
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