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Rally For A Truly Green 10-Year Energy Plan
November 26 @ 3:33 am
WHAT: Clean Energy Rally Following First Austin Energy Stakeholder Meeting
WHERE: Front Lawn, Austin Energy Headquarters, Town Lake Center, 721 Barton Springs Road
WHEN: Tuesday, February 25th at 12:15 pm (following the conclusion of Austin Energy’s first stakeholder meeting)
WHO: Hosted by the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign and Public Citizen
VISUALS FOR CAMERAS: We’ll have 30 Austin Energy Ratepayers wearing yellow shirts and holding clean energy signs next to a large solar panel. A coal lobbyist clad in a suit and a large black smokestack costume will be doing all he can to remove the solar panel from the rally. Parents and children will also be in attendance to highlight the need to plan for clean future for our kids.
AUSTIN – On Tuesday, February 25th at 12:15 PM CT, dozens of yellow-shirt clad Austinities will rally in support of clean energy and moving beyond fossil fuels outside of Austin Energy headquarters following the first of three stakeholder input meetings on the proposed 10-year update to the Austin Energy Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan.
Austin Energy has given no indication that it will incorporate City Council’s recommendation that the solar energy goal be expanded to 400 megawatts by 2020 – enough to power about 50,000 homes. Nor has it suggested increasing the overall renewable energy goal, despite the fact that it’s already has contracts to meeting the current goal 4 years early. Instead, the utility is proposing to keep the Fayette coal plant running through 2025 and to build an additional 800 megawatt fracked gas plant.
The rally is hosted by the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign and Public Citizen.