In This Issue
Drive Electric Earth Month Event
Clean Cities and Communities
Member Spotlight: Salt River Project (SRP)
Drive Electric Earth Month Event
Top Left: VSCCC Chair Mike Heath sits with VSCCC Co-Director Brenna Covert at coalition booth. Top Right: Visitors talk with EV owners and sign up for ride and drives at DEAZ booth. Bottom Left: Some EV’s on display at event. Bottom Right: City of Phoenix Sustainability Department booth welcomes event attendees.
Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition was excited to be a part of another Drive Electric Earth Month Ride and Drive Event with our partners at Drive Electric Arizona, City of Phoenix Sustainability Department and Salt River Project. This years event was held on April 19th at South Mountain Community College and we couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day to be outside talking to attendees about EV’s.
Our coalition had a booth alongside others including the City of Phoenix, SRP, APS, Roll & Charge, Chapman BMW, San Tan Ford and more. We had a wonderful time sharing information with the event attendees and hearing their ideas and opinions. It was great to see so many people interested in EV’s and taking advantage of this event to learn more. Ride and Drives like this one provide the perfect opportunity for people to talk with real EV owners, ask questions and try driving different types of EV’s all in one spot.
The event was a success and ended up hosting 200 ride and drives! We want to thank everyone involved in putting this event together, especially the amazing volunteers at Drive Electric Arizona and the Valley of the Sun Electric Vehicle Association. They provided their time and their own personal EV’s for this ride and drive event. We are so glad we get to work with such a dedicated and passionate group of people on events like this and look forward to the next one.
Clean Cities and Communities
With Earth day this month bringing attention to ways we can all help our planet, we wanted to share more information on the Clean Cities and Communities Network, one of the many organizations working to improve the health of our world.
Our Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition is just one of 75 other coalitions across the country that make up the National Clean Cities and Communities Network. All of our coalitions work locally within our regions to advance the use of alternative fuels and technologies and to reduce harmful emissions in the transportation sector.
Coalitions implement alternative and renewable fuels, electric vehicles, idle-reduction measures, efficiency improvements, new mobility choices, and emerging transportation technologies. We accomplish this by partnering with local stakeholders such businesses, fuel providers, vehicle fleets, state and local government agencies, and community organizations. Clean Cities Coalitions also work closely with the US Department of Energy and Vehicle Technologies Office. This national partnership allows coalitions to bring DOE developed projects, technical assistance, information resources, online tools and data to our local contacts and use them to help achieve clean transportation goals in our regions.
Since Clean Cities and Communities began in 1993, coalition activities have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 72 million tons, achieved a cumulative impact in energy use equal to nearly 14 billion gasoline gallon equivalents, and helped put 1.6 million alternative fuel vehicles on the road. VSCCC is proud to be a part of the Clean Cities organization and the work it is doing to reduce emissions and improve the health of not only the planet but the people in our communities.
Clean Cities has many resources, tools, and technical assistance available for anyone wanting to learn more about alternative fuels, transportation technologies and more. For more information check out the Clean Cities Technical Assistance Page or Contact Us at the Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition.
Salt River Project (SRP), is a not-for-profit organization that provides water and power services to more than 2 million people in central Arizona. SRP strives to provide affordable, reliable and sustainable utility services to its customers. In order to achieve this, the utility has set ambitious sustainability goals for itself. For example it has a goal of achieving a 30% carbon emission reduction within their fleet by 2035. Their fleet is working towards this goal by transitioning some vehicles to EV’s. Not only is SRP taking advantage of new technologies such as EV’s in it’s own fleets, it is also providing customers with resources to help them adopt these technologies as well. For example, customers with EV’s can qualify for a home EV charger rebate and take advantage of their Electric Vehicle Time of Use Price Plan.
VSCCC strives to provide alternative fuel information to all people within our region. In order to increase our outreach abilities we are working with local agencies to share our newsletter and clean fuel resources with an even greater audience. We are proud to partner with the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona's Air Quality Department, ASU's Sustainable Cities Network and Maricopa County Air Quality Department.
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Translations done by Diego Montemayor- Diego@cleanairaz.org
