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Objective: Promote Localized Green Energy Technology in the Public and Private <br />Sectors <br />Strategy: <br />The city's initial focus will be on rewriting local ordinances regarding solar panels, <br />wind turbines, and geothermal hearing systems. The city will review, and, if <br />necessary, update these ordinances to remove barriers to the implementation of <br />these technologies, and will create regulations for the installation and functioning of <br />these systems. This will mean developing a special permitting process that makes <br />applying for residential solar electric systems easy—possibly using the City of <br />Minneapolis as a model. <br />Information about incentives for solar electric or heating systems, including Xcel <br />Energy's Solar*Rewards program and federal and state incentives, will be made <br />available as a link or a document on Saint Anthony Village's website. Following this, <br />the city will gather information on the feasibility of solar panels, wind turbines, <br />geothermal heating and other green energy technologies for Saint Anthony Village's <br />civic structures. From this data the city can make decisions on economic viability of <br />these systems for specific buildings. <br />Strategy: <br />The city will coordinate with nonprofits like Minnesota Renewable Energy Society to <br />help educate the public about renewable energy options. This will include <br />community workshops on the feasibility and advantages of solar panels, wind <br />turbines, and geothermal heating for individual and multi -unit housing, as well as <br />programs that promote renewable energy awareness in schools. This will be <br />supplemented by making material available online for citizens to reference. <br />Strategy: <br />The City of Saint Anthony Village will create a page on its website with information <br />for businesses and residents on steps and changes they can make to improve the <br />efficiency of their buildings. This will include links to resources such as the U.S. <br />Department of Energy's Energy Saver's booklet and Green Builder's Homeowner <br />Handbook. Another feature of the website will be statistics and graphs on the energy <br />use and efficiency of highly used civic buildings that will give the city a way to track <br />their changes throughout the process and foster community involvement in these <br />alterations. <br />Future Progress <br />• Track the energy use and energy bills for City buildings, residents and businesses <br />• Ensure ordinances are created that allow for sola panel and wind turbine use on individual <br />properties <br />• Track residents that switch to energy efficient appliances and create incentive programs for <br />their use <br />• Generate timelines for switching street lighting to LED lights <br />ain Iegy 9 <br />ilia tho <br />