Mayor R. Rex Parris shared the teachings realized from the Metropolis’s effort to attain net-zero in 2019 and to grow to be the primary hydrogen metropolis within the U.S.
LANCASTER, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Metropolis of Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris addressed world enterprise and authorities leaders in Tokyo, Japan for World Sensible Vitality Week. Parris’ keynote deal with targeted on the Metropolis’s early effort to achieve net-zero vitality, which was achieved in 2019, and its latest efforts to grow to be the primary hydrogen metropolis within the U.S.
“Since my first time period as mayor in 2008, I’ve prioritized enhancing the environmental and financial circumstances for the residents of Lancaster. We began by trying to find options that might assist leverage regionally accessible assets and in search of out companions that might assist us benefit from these options in our Metropolis,” Parris stated throughout his keynote speech.
Over the course of Parris’ 5 phrases as mayor, he has reworked Lancaster right into a renewable vitality chief by attracting greater than $2 billion of funding in inexperienced firms and applied sciences. The Metropolis of Lancaster’s enterprise buyers embrace BYD, which manufactures electrical buses; Heliogen, which generates hydrogen from concentrated photo voltaic vitality; SGH2, which gasifies wastepaper into hydrogen; and Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI), which converts natural waste into renewable pure gasoline and hydrogen. The Metropolis additionally began its personal utility firm, Lancaster Vitality, permitting residents entry to native renewable vitality at decrease costs.
“Lancaster’s hydrogen journey is simply starting. Our partnerships, particularly with Namie and the Japanese enterprise neighborhood, exhibit how a small metropolis within the California desert can take management of its trajectory and switch that desert right into a inexperienced vitality asset,” stated Parris. “We stay steadfast in our dedication to hydrogen and stay up for a day when hydrogen is a typical answer throughout the state of California, the US, and the broader Pacific.”
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