{"id":144532,"date":"2025-08-14T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144532\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:47:19","slug":"rochester-reconsidering-2030-energy-goals-after-tariffs-rising-renewable-energy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144532\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester reconsidering 2030 energy goals after tariffs, rising renewable energy costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cI don\u2019t perceive this to be a metric that we can say, \u2018If it\u2019s over 52% we can do it,\u2019\u201d said Councilmember Patrick Keane, who also sits on RPU\u2019s board. \u201cBut it is an important influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Keane said he anticipates there will be some \u201ccommunity angst\u201d over the decision, as city officials will have to be mindful of increasing costs for property owners at the same time as following residents\u2019 wishes to adopt more environmentally friendly energy practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Keane said he\u2019s also concerned infrastructure and energy contract costs may increase regardless of what steps Rochester takes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201c[Then] I\u2019ve done nobody a favor by holding off and I just bothered a bunch of people who think we reneged on our sustainability commitment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t perceive this to be a metric that we can say, \u2018If it\u2019s over 52% we can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-144532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115026017905727948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}