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Ann Arbor details municipal solar, efficiency and EV-charging push to cut city emissions
Summary
City staff described a series of municipal projects — rooftop and ground-mounted solar, battery storage, LED conversions and expanded EV charging — that together aim to reduce facility and fleet emissions and demonstrate progress toward the A2.0 carbon-neutrality goals.
City sustainability staff onstage at a public forum outlined recent and planned projects to reduce emissions from municipal buildings and vehicles, including more than a dozen solar installations already online, new battery storage for resilience, LED streetlight conversions and a federal-funded expansion of public EV chargers.
Simi Bahr, senior analyst for municipal operations in Ann Arbor's Office of Sustainability and Innovations, said the city manages a large portfolio of sites and energy use and has pushed multiple on-site energy projects since issuing a first solar design request for proposals in 2021. "Just last year around 945 megawatt hours" of generation came from city…
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