With a median personal income of about $21,000, this California city made it to one of the first “zero net energy” cities in the world.
If you think of City Hall as the place where you contest your parking ticket, pay your property tax bill, or buy a pass for the local pool, you may prefer that local elected officials stick to their knitting rather than dabble in outside ventures.
Lancaster touts its “business friendly” atmosphere, but has a median personal income of about $21,000, much lower than the national average. Most residents work in defense or a related industry, including at nearby Edwards Air Force Base. “We’re not a community that has a lot of revenue,” Caudle said. “We’re not high on that list. It causes us to live with scarcity. You’ve got to be creative, entrepreneurial, think a little differently because the citizens don’t give you resources like other communities do. Not every city thinks that way. We have a council that’s willing to take risks.”Efforts to produce clean energy began as early as 2008, Caudle said, when the city began installing solar panels in parking lots.
Read: Here’s the first U.S. city to swap gas and oil for all-electric buildings, on the path to zero carbon emissions — Lancaster City Manager Jason Caudle Still, Caudle and other officials involved in creating LCE and developing that user experience say it was made more challenging because they were the first municipality to do so. In fact, other municipalities have made similar attempts, but abandoned them, in some cases after many years.
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