Update: Highlands Ranch Energy Efficient City
The ThunderRidge HS (TRHS) senior research team met yesterday to talk about the technical and educational support a major automotive company is lending (to be announced on April 27, 2007) to TRHS and to answer any questions about their upcoming senior project presentation.
In addition, below is a recap on the Future City of Highlands Ranch Vision and Strategy that is getting more crystallized as time progresses.
In the summer of 2006, TRHS made the decision to support a local resident’s vision to eventually incorporate Highlands Ranch with its main focus on renewable and sustainable energy technologies. Not only would this be an historic first for any municipality, the future city of Highlands Ranch would be the first hydrocarbon-producing city in the world to embark in this direction.
Highlands Ranch is postured in becoming the worldwide thought leader by forming a local and global collaborative dialogue to find answers to Highlands Ranch’s energy security, environmental impact and to take the city “off the grid” by the year 2020.
Some of the major strategic initiatives are:
1. Highlands Ranch Clean Tech City Budget
2. Investing in alternative fuel and renewable energy commercial technologies
3. Highlands Ranch Energy Efficiency Clean Technology Incubator that will assist alternative fuel and renewable energy start-ups to become successful and the city reaps financial rewards when these businesses succeed
4. Reduce carbon emissions by aligning with the Kyoto protocol and Chicago Climate Exchange
5. Energy Efficiency Office Park that produces carbon credits for new businesses to relocate to.
6. Highlands Ranch residents and business owners can partake in these new technologies
