First Statewide Goal to Reduce Carbon Pollution in Pennsylvania

The GreenGov Council will serve as a central coordinating body to promote the implementation of the executive order and the achievement of the following state agency performance goals:

• Reduce overall energy consumption by 3 percent per year, and 21 percent by 2025, as compared to 2017 levels.

• Replace 25 percent of the state passenger car fleet with battery electric and plug-in electric hybrid cars by 2025.

• Procure renewable energy to offset at least 40 percent of the commonwealth’s annual electricity use.

Solar is going to play a huge role in this initiative and on top of that, 2019 is the last year for the 30% tax credit. Don’t worry, there will still be federal tax credits into 2020 but they will be slightly reduced.

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“In the absence of leadership from the federal government, states and cities are stepping up and doing their part to reduce emissions,” said Governor Wolf. “Today I am proud to declare the commonwealth’s intention to address climate change, the most critical environmental threat facing the world.”

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