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On 12 December 2016, the city of Las Vegas announced on an official blog that all of their municipal buildings and facilities would be powered by renewable energy, an accomplishment that was soon widely touted in headlines. However, readers who just glanced at the headlines of such stories may have come away with the mistaken impression that the glittering array of brilliantly-lit hotel/casinos that populate the famous Las Vegas Strip are now all impressively powered entirely by renewable energy sources, which isn't the case. The energy achievement touted by Las Vegas encompasses only municipal buildings and facilities, it does not include private businesses (such as casinos), and city spokesman Jace Radke pointed out that most of the Las Vegas Strip actually lies outside of city limits in an unincorporated area: The goal was nearly a decade in the making and relies on a partnership with NVEnergy. The move to renewable energy is expected to save the city an annual $5 million in operating costs: Las Vegas joins Burlington, Vermont; Greensburg, Kansas; and Aspen, Colorado among the list of municipalities boasting reliance on renewable energy sources. Although the iconic casinos and hotels of the Strip don't fall under the municipal umbrella, some of the businesses that run those attractions are making their own efforts to go green:
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