CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

In response to the climate crisis, many cities, municipalities and community-based organizations have stepped forward to advance the goals of clean, affordable, accessible, renewable energy for all at a local and state level. As entities seek to move forward with established local commitments, such as 100% renewable energy (e.g. Sierra Club’s R100 effort), the difficulty of accessing energy data, most of which is from national, state, or utility-specific data sets, creates an enormous gap in the ability of communities to advance their deep decarbonization and renewable energy goals. Communities, municipalities, and cities across the US are experiencing these same problems to varying degrees, with many recreating the wheel each time. This is onerous, timely, costly, and isolating. The ultimate goal of the Community Energy Dashboard project is to democratize energy action by providing open-source software and all the supporting documentation for any community to successfully use it.