{"id":58958,"date":"2020-07-09T07:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58958"},"modified":"2020-07-09T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T07:55:15","slug":"sydney-australias-largest-city-officially-powered-by-100-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/07\/09\/sydney-australias-largest-city-officially-powered-by-100-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney, Australia&#8217;s largest city, officially powered by 100% renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney is Australia&#8217;s largest city and home to almost 250,000 people. It has been in the news lately for all the right reasons &#8211; the city is now powered completely by renewable energy sourced from\u00a0two solar farms and the largest wind farm in all of New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The transition was facilitated through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with electricity retailer Flow Power. Although the historic deal costs AU$60 million, the initiative is expected to save AU$500,000 every year, according to Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is also expected to purge roughly 20,000 tons of CO2 from the city\u2019s carbon footprint\u2014roughly 70% of its total output\u2014before 2024, which is several years earlier than its original goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCities are responsible for 70% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, so it is critical that we take effective and evidence-based climate actions,\u201d said Sydney Mayor Clover Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/sydney-now-powered-by-100-percent-renewable-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/sydney-now-powered-by-100-percent-renewable-energy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney is Australia&#8217;s largest city and home to almost 250,000 people. It has been in the news lately for all the right reasons &#8211; the city is now powered completely by renewable energy sourced from\u00a0two solar farms and the largest wind farm in all of New South Wales. The transition was facilitated through a power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}