City of Philadelphia - File #: 160211

• File #: 160211
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: LAPSED
• File created: 3/10/2016
• In control: Committee on the Environment
• Title: Authorizing the Committee on the Environment to hold hearings to examine the Solar Schools for Philadelphia report released by PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, and to investigate financing options for the School District of Philadelphia to use its land and building stock for solar energy generation.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Green, Council President Clarke, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Gym

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/11/2016	0	Committee on the Environment	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/11/2016	0	Committee on the Environment	HEARING HELD
4/11/2016	0	Committee on the Environment	RECESSED
3/10/2016	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar	Pass
3/10/2016	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED

Title
Authorizing the Committee on the Environment to hold hearings to examine the Solar Schools for Philadelphia report released by PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, and to investigate financing options for the School District of Philadelphia to use its land and building stock for solar energy generation.

Body
WHEREAS, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center is a 501(c)(3) organization focused on protecting our environment and providing the people of Pennsylvania a voice in the environmental debate, drawing on more than 30 years of experience to combine independent research, practical ideas and effective educational campaigns to achieve meaningful environmental results for Pennsylvania's environment; and

WHEREAS, Frontier Group provides information and ideas to help citizens build a cleaner, healthier, fairer and more democratic America, addressing issues that will define our nation's course in the 21st century - from fracking to solar energy, global warming to transportation, clean water to clean elections - by delivering timely research and analysis that is accessible to the public, applying insights gleaned from a variety of disciplines to arrive at new ideas for solving pressing problems; and

WHEREAS, This March of 2016, PennEnvironment and Frontier Group together released the "Solar Schools for Philadelphia" report, reviewing the potential energy-generation capacity of roof-mounted solar panels on each of School District of Philadelphia school; and

WHEREAS, Solar Schools for Philadelphia models the potential for covering the 100 acres of rooftop space available on the 204 school buildings, which would result in the generation of 71 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year (the equivalent electricity usage of 7,000 average Pennsylvania homes, enough to provide 37% of schools' power needs); avert emission of 62,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, the leading cause of global warming, along with t...