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Two years after an ambitious clean energy campaign was announced for a South Side Chicago neighborhood, construction is moving forward on a clustered microgrid, a solar energy project at an affordable housing complex and a university-led clean tech center.
The project will be sited in a vegetable garden at an affordable housing facility on Chicago’s South Side.
Chicago’s electric bus fleet will be capable of putting power back onto the grid when not in use.
The manager of the nation’s first all-electric shuttle bus service talks about operating electric buses in a cold climate like Chicago.
Chicago will need to embrace smart thermostats and electric heating to meet long-range carbon reduction goals, according to a recent report.