MUNICIPALITIES MUST GET CREATIVE TO FUND RESILIENCY IN A TIME OF BOTH GREATER NEED AND REDUCED FEDERAL FUNDING
John Morrill, Fairfax County’s director of the office of environmental and energy coordination, has worked on efficient energy and green initiatives in the greater Washington, D.C., area since the 1980s.
Morrill said the goal in Fairfax
County, Va., is to make energy efficiency self-funding.
In June, the county broke ground for
the construction of a five-megawatt solar array on a closed landfill.
When operating in spring 2026, the
solar is expected to provide about five percent of the power needed to operate
more than 500 county buildings and over 50,000 streetlights in Fairfax.
The growing county of about 1.2
million has set ambitious goals of getting 25 percent of its electricity from
renewable sources by 2030 and 50 percent by 2040.
Making sure new facilities are built
energy efficient and spending capital dollars to improve efficiency is a way of
saving power expenses, Morrill said.
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