City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0050R

• File #: 05-0050R
• Version: 0
• Name: Baltimore City Clean Energy Policy
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 5/2/2005
• In control: City Council
• Title: FOR the purpose of requesting that the City of Baltimore look into formulating a Clean Energy Policy and purchasing a form of clean renewable energy to benefit the City of Baltimore as well as its citizens.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, President Young, Robert Curran, Paula Johnson Branch, Kenneth Harris, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Belinda Conaway, Nicholas C. D'Adamo
• Indexes: Clean Energy, Educ., Housing, Health, & Human Serv., Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/15/2005	0	City Council	Adopted	Pass
8/4/2005	0	Education, Housing, Health & Human Services/Judiciary & Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably	Pass
5/5/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report	Pass
5/5/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report	Pass
5/2/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
5/2/2005	0	The City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning

Baltimore City Clean Energy Policy
Title
FOR the purpose of requesting that the City of Baltimore look into formulating a Clean Energy Policy and purchasing a form of clean renewable energy to benefit the City of Baltimore as well as its citizens.
Body
Recitals

The State of Maryland deregulated the electric utility industry on July 1, 2000, enabling electric customers to shop for competitive power. It is in the interest of Baltimore City to meet the federal air quality standards and in the best interest of its residents and businesses to reduce the emissions of nitrogen oxides and other air emissions that harm public health and the environment, in as cost-effective a manner as possible.
There exists a general consensus that electricity generated using "zero emissions" sources, such as solar power, wind, and certain small low impact hydroelectric sources, as clean, renewable, and has fewer environmental consequences than fossil fuel generated power.

Baltimore City recognizes that national energy security and the stability of our electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure can be enhanced through increased development of distributed energy resources. Baltimore City agencies, as an element of an aggregate, cooperative, competitive procurement of electrical supply, should make efforts ...