North America

Breckenridge, Colorado, USA

Breckenridge, Colorado, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable energy in municipal operations by 2025, and 100% renewable electricity community-wide by 2035.
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Community solar gardens
  • Implementation: The town of Breckenridge, Colorado aims to power its municipal operations entirely with solar energy by ...
Burlington, Vermont, USA

Burlington, Vermont, USA

  • Target: Meet 90% of energy needs including electricity, heating and transport with renewable energy sources by 2050 (State of Vermont target).
  • Status: Achieved - By September 2014, 100% of the city's electricity demand was supplied by renewable energy sources. First ...
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable energy in buildings and transportation by 2035
  • Status: In progress
  • RES:  Offshore wind and solar power, alongside energy efficiency retrofits, energy standard updates, public transportation improvements
  • Implementation: Cambridge is committed to 100%  renewable energy community-wide including  by 2035, ...
Wall House, Cheltenham Township, PA, USA

Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable electricity by 2030 and 100% renewable energy for heat and transportation by 2050
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar power
  • Implementation: Cheltenham Township has the goal of achieving 100% renewable energy across all sectors by 2050 by focusing on ...
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Chicago, Illinois, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable electricity by 2035
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar energy
  • Implementation: Chicago is the largest city in the United States to commit to 100% renewable energy. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, it is an international hub for finance, ...
Chula Vista, California, USA

Chula Vista, California, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable electricity by 2035
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar projects
  • Implementation: The city of Chula Vista in California aims for 100% renewable electricity community-wide by 2035. The city is commited to reduce the governments’ greenhouse emissions as well ...
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable energy by 2035
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar and wind power
  • Implementation: Cincinnati is the 100th U.S. city pledge for carbon neutrality by 2035. The city council aims to achieve this by transitioning to 100 percent clean ...
Clarkson, Georgia, USA

Clarkston, Georgia, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable energy by 2050, the city’s fleet vehicles will be zero-emission by 2035
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Energy efficiency, electric vehicle, solar and net-zero building standards
  • Implementation: When Clarkson adopted the resolution to transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy ...
West Side Market, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable electricity by 2050, reduce residential and commercial energy use 50% by 2030
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Offshore wind power industry on Lake Erie, solar power plants on former industrial sites, green buildings
  • Implementation: Cleveland was once America’s industrial ...
South Carolina State House, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Columbia, South Carolina, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable energy by 2036
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar energy
  • Implementation: As the first municipality in South Carolina to commit to 100% renewable energy, the city of Columbia today powers its municipal buildings with 100% solar energy and ...
Concord, New Hampshire, USA

Concord, New Hampshire, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable electricity by 2030, 100% clean energy in all sectors by 2050
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar and wind power
  • Implementation: The state capital of Concord has received strong support from public, private, and faith-based sectors in its goal to ...
Fortuna, Costa Rica

Costa Rica

  • Target: Achieve 100% RE in the electricity sector and to be ‘carbon neutral’, by 2021.
  • Status: In progress - In 2017, Costa Rica supplies around  93% of its total electricity needs from renewable energy sources, mostly from domestic hydro.
  • RES: Hydropower ...