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Table R26. City and Local Renewable Energy Targets: Selected Examples (continued)
Note: Text in bold indicates new/revised in 2015, brackets ‘[ ]’ indicate previous targets where new targets were enacted.
TARGET FOR RENEWABLE ELECTRIC CAPACITY
OR GENERATION
Adelaide, Australia 2 MW of solar PV on residential
and commercial buildings by 2020
Esklistuna, Sweden 48 GWh from wind power,
9.5 GWh from solar PV by 2020
Gothenburg, Sweden 500 GWh by 2030
Los Angeles, California, 1.3 GW of solar PV by 2020
USA
New York, New York, 350 MW of solar PV by 2024
USA
San Francisco, California,
USA
k 100% of peak demand
(950 MW) by 2020
TARGETS FOR GOVERNMENT SELF-GENERATION /
OWN-USE PURCHASES OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
Belo Horizonte, Brazil k 30% of electricity from solar
PV by 2030
Cockburn, Australia k 20% of final energy in city
buildings by 2020
Ghent, Belgium k 50% of final energy by 2020
Hepburn Shire, Australia k 100% of final energy in public
buildings; 8% of electricity for
public lighting
Kristianstad, Sweden k 100% of final energy by 2020
Malmö, Sweden k 100% of final energy by 2020
Portland, Oregon, USA k 100% of final energy by 2030
Sydney, Australia k 100% of electricity in buildings;
20% for street lamps
HEAT-RELATED MANDATES AND TARGETS
Amsterdam, Netherlands District heating for at least 200,000 houses by 2040 (using biogas, woody biomass and waste heat)
Chandigarh, India Mandatory use of solar water heating in industries, hotels, hospitals, prisons, canteens, housing
complexes, and government and residential buildings (as of 2013)
Helsingborg, Sweden 100% renewable energy district heating (community-scale) by 2035
Loures, Portugal Solar thermal systems mandated as of 2013 in all sports facilities and schools that have good sun
exposure
Munich, Germany 80% reduction of heat demand by 2058 (base year 2009) through passive solar design
(includes heat, process heat and water heating)
Nantes, France Extend the district heating system to source heat from biomass boilers for half of city inhabitants by 2017
Osnabrück, Germany 100% renewable heat by 2050
Täby, Sweden 100% renewable heat in local government operations by 2020
Vienna, Austria 50% of total heat demand with solar thermal energy by 2050
Note: Table provides a sample of local renewable energy commitments worldwide. It does not aim to present a comprehensive picture of all municipal renewable energy goals.
Source: See endnote 24 for this section.
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