Metro General Services unveils dashboards showing Nashville emissions decline, rising solar and building energy savings

Metro General Services presented three public dashboards at a Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting that the agency said make its greenhouse gas accounting, solar generation and high‑performance building data publicly accessible and easier to track.

The dashboards — a greenhouse gas emissions inventory updated to 2022 calendar‑year data, a solar generation tracker and a high‑performance building dashboard — are intended to increase transparency and to help Metro measure progress toward emissions and energy‑performance goals, Jennifer Westerholm, Office of Sustainability, Department of General Services, said. "These new inventories are based on 2022 calendar year data ... they're really the most accurate and comprehensive to date," Westerholm said.

The greenhouse gas inventory presents both a countywide (community) view and a municipal‑operations view. Westerholm said community‑level emissions in 2022 were about 10% lower than in 2014 and municipal operations emissions were about 25% lower over the same baseline period.…