Setting a High Renewable Energy Goal, Can Chicago Catch Up With Las Vegas?

Route Fifty: Back in December, Las Vegas City Hall officials announced that 100 percent of the municipality’s 140 public facilities, streetlights and other civic infrastructure was now being powered by renewable energy thanks to the nearby Boulder Solar 1 array coming into service.

About 1,300 miles to the east, the nation’s third-largest city has a ways to go to catch up with Las Vegas and other places, like Aspen, Colorado, and Burlington, Vermont, which are both using 100 percent renewable energy for their public facilities.

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