{"id":189705,"date":"2026-05-12T01:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189705\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:47:16","slug":"report-philly-energy-campaign-exceeds-goals-set-a-decade-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189705\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Philly Energy Campaign exceeds goals set a decade ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Energy Authority has exceeded the goals set 10 years ago when it launched the Philadelphia Energy Campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/philaenergy.org\/turning-14-7-million-into-1-3-billion-philadelphia-energy-campaign-surpasses-goals-collaborates-with-city-to-grow-local-clean-energy-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a consultant\u2019s report released on Monday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Former City Council President Darrell Clarke took the stage at his 2016 inauguration and announced an initiative he said would generate $1 billion in investments and create 10,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of those times when there\u2019s a vision, there are a lot of people telling you you can\u2019t achieve it, there are lobbyists all over the place lobbying against it, but ultimately we actually had no idea that this would grow to be what it is today, the scope, the scale,\u201d Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p>His projections were a bit of a \u201cHail Mary,\u201d but 10 years later, an E-consult report found the campaign actually generated $1.3 billion and created more than 11,000 jobs. And that\u2019s not to mention another billion dollars in energy savings and reduced emissions from weatherizing and solarizing homes and public buildings, upgrading 130,000 street lights with energy-efficient bulbs, and generating 25% of the city government\u2019s electricity from a solar farm. <\/p>\n<p>Energy Authority President Emily Schapira said the effort shows relatively modest government funding (Philadelphia has put less than $15 million into it over 10 years) can pay big dividends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor every one dollar of city investment, we\u2019ve spurred $90 of local investment in clean energy projects and programs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Energy Authority has exceeded the goals set 10 years ago when it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1160,2328,69,48504,71,70],"class_list":["post-189705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-economic-development","tag-energy","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-energy-authority","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}