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Community Scale Renewable Energy

ZEROCITY, LLC works with municipalities to achieve energy resilience through the development of multi-customer microgrid systems. The ZEROCITY team combines expertise in comprehensive city planning and climate action with the know-how to finance and implement microgrid projects. Our objective is to work with cities to reap the sizable benefits that accrue from hosting community-scale microgrid projects—projects that reduce utility bills for government operations and private rate payers alike and that promote system resiliency to mitigate against prolonged power outages caused by large storms and other unexpected catastrophes. ZEROCITY LLC is based in the Monterey Bay Region and co-managed by Rod Fickel and Martin Carver, AICP.

Distributed Energy/Distributed Benefits

ZEROCITY positions its clients to reap the sizable benefits that accrue from reductions in yearly utility bills, income from hosting community scale renewable energy projects, and the marketing advantages of being a zero city. Cities that adopt our approach tap into a new way of thinking about sustainability--planning for renewable energy projects on a comprehensive scale offers long term support for agency budgets while curbing greenhouse gas emissions.  

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