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Powering Los Angeles with renewable energy

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The City of Los Angeles is nearly two thirds of the way towards its goal of generating a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020; cities around the world can glean valuable technical, economic and political lessons from its experience.

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Figure 1: Energy sources and emissions.
Figure 2: Drivers of electricity rate escalation.

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We acknowledge Romel Pascual, Jonathan Parfrey, James Barner, William Glauz, Cindy Parsons, Mark Sedlacek and the LADWP Integrated Resource Planning team.

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  1. City of Los Angeles, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, 90012, California, USA

    Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa & Varun Sivaram

  2. Department of Physics, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK

    Varun Sivaram

  3. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, 111 North Hope Street, Los Angeles, 90012, California, USA

    Ron Nichols

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Villaraigosa, M., Sivaram, V. & Nichols, R. Powering Los Angeles with renewable energy. Nature Clim Change 3, 771–775 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1985

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