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Green Bay schools get clean-energy roadmap; consultants recommend solar, electrification and tracking
Summary
District staff and McKinstry consultants outlined a staged plan to reach the board's carbon goals, recommending on-site solar to cover about 60% of electricity, a phased building electrification program and annual greenhouse-gas tracking; no board vote was taken.
Green Bay Area Public School District officials and McKinstry consultants presented a multi-part roadmap on Jan. 13 to meet the district's resolution committing to 50% carbon-neutral district operations by 2035.
The recommendation, described by Cale Polchinski, chief operating officer for Green Bay Schools, as "a strategy and some points to get to that goal," groups five principal tactics: on-site solar, facility electrification, fleet conversion, facility improvements tied to capital planning, and off-site carbon-free utility procurement.
The consultants said their inventory shows roughly 58% of district emissions come from electricity and 42% from fossil fuels. Ryan Hoff of McKinstry said the analysis…
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