Talking about the Clinton Sustainable Energy District gave Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. a chance to assess how the $30 million project fits into the city’s overall environmental goals.
The city is now building a 4.9-megawatt solar array at the Port of Little Rock to power about 70% of city operations. The CSED should get Little Rock much closer to Scott’s goal, announced in 2022, to run all city operations with clean energy by 2030.
“This is about how we can be most energy efficient and sustainable, to be a cleaner city, particularly in downtown,” Scott said in an interview. The goals are twofold. “We want not only to be a beacon of culture and economic development and impact, but also to further our administration’s 2030 goal of utilizing clean operations.”
The mayor said he’s excited about the CSED, which he hopes will get the city’s blessing by a Sept. 26 date mentioned in last year’s memorandum.
Partners in the project are ENFRA, which is its energy-as-a-service overseer, and the Clinton Foundation.
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