RENEWABLE BY A MUNICIPALITY

I want to share with you this news with great appreciation to all concerned who did it.

First of all, hats-off to the Mayor of Municipality of Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) of Municipality of Los Angeles committed in 2005 to ensure electricity utility's use of clean and green renewable energy from 5 percent to 20 percent by the year 2010. After the achievement, Mr. Antonio Villaraigosa, the Mayor of Municipality of Los Angeles said, "When I became Mayor, I set a goal to generate 20 percent of the City's power from renewable energy sources by 2010 and I am proud to say that we have achieved that goal".

The implementation of the commitments that were done to self creates marvels.

This 2010 goal was achieved through a combination of major projects and power agreements. In June 2009, LADWP began full operation of the Pine Tree Wind Power Plant (120 MW total output, the amount of CO2 displaced is roughly the same as removing 35,000 cars from the road or planting 1.4 million trees) - the largest wind farm owned by a Municipal Utility in US, in the Tehachapi Mountains. Wind power comprised nearly 50 percent of all LADWP's renewable energy in 2010 with small hydro-electric contributing 30 percent, geothermal/bio-mss based, 22 percent, and solar, 1 percent.