Clean Energy Plan

As a prosperous and growing community, Decatur takes its role seriously in reducing the impact of emissions related to its energy consumption. Decatur recognizes that it must go beyond the minimum efforts called for by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its very low greenhouse gas emissions scenario to help account for other communities’ inability to act. As such, Decatur is planning to eliminate its government and community carbon emissions from electricity by 2035 with  all remaining community uses, including transportation, eliminated by 2050.

Decatur’s Clean Energy Plan is intended to guide Decatur’s energy transition and address the City's contributions to the climate crisis, while also improving living conditions and addressing equity issues. This plan describes a path to a Clean Energy Future, while facing an aggressive goal and conditions outside of Decatur’s control.