Energy score
Clean-energy readiness, grid resilience, and solar or efficiency opportunity signals.
Energy in San Francisco86/100
Energy
Energy Readiness in San Francisco
San Francisco operates with active climate policy, a comparatively low-carbon grid, and strong building-efficiency programs. Energy in San Francisco scores 86/100, placing it in the strong group of the indexed set.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-05
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 86/100
Energy readiness
86/100
Strong policy and grid baseline support the transition score.
Primary transition lever
Buildings and electrification
Building electrification and efficiency are the central levers.
Climate stressor
Heat and wildfire
Wildfire and heat shape adaptation priorities.
San Francisco energy data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Energy readiness | 86/100 | State-level policy reinforces city programs. |
| Primary transition lever | Buildings and electrification | Heat-pump and EV programs are growing. |
| Climate stressor | Heat and wildfire | Smoke events bring concurrent air-quality risks. |
Energy city comparison
A crawlable comparison across every indexed city makes it easy to scan how this module changes between metros.
| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco (this page) | 86/100 | San Francisco operates with active climate policy, a comparatively low-carbon grid, and strong building-efficiency programs. |
| Copenhagen | 94/100 | Copenhagen has a mature energy-transition profile, with district energy experience and strong climate-adaptation planning. |
| Zurich | 92/100 | Zurich operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline, strong building-efficiency standards, and continuous district-energy investment. |
| Amsterdam | 89/100 | Amsterdam has a clear clean-energy direction with district heat, offshore wind context, and active building-efficiency policy. |
| Berlin | 88/100 | Berlin has strong clean-energy direction supported by national renewable-electricity progress and city-level efficiency programs. |
| Vienna | 87/100 | Vienna has strong clean-energy direction supported by national hydropower, mature district-heating, and active building retrofits. |
| Paris | 86/100 | Paris has strong energy-transition direction, with building retrofits and heat adaptation central to its readiness profile. |
| Auckland | 86/100 | Auckland operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline led by hydropower and geothermal generation, with active building-efficiency work. |
| Singapore | 85/100 | Singapore is energy-import dependent but progressing on renewables, regional power imports, and strong building efficiency. |
| Tokyo | 84/100 | Tokyo has strong engineering capacity and resilience discipline, but energy transition is constrained by dense demand and climate stress. |
| London | 84/100 | London has strong clean-energy direction with retrofit-led building strategy, balanced against legacy infrastructure complexity. |
| Barcelona | 84/100 | Barcelona benefits from a strong solar resource, active rooftop programs, and clear urban-energy direction tied to building efficiency. |
| New York | 82/100 | New York has serious clean-energy ambition and infrastructure complexity, with resilience shaped by coastal risk and dense demand. |
| Toronto | 82/100 | Toronto benefits from a low-carbon Ontario grid and ongoing building-efficiency efforts, with winter heat as a major energy lever. |
| Seoul | 82/100 | Seoul has strong engineering capacity and a clear energy-transition direction, with grid modernization and building efficiency as central levers. |
| Sydney | 80/100 | Sydney is in active energy transition with strong rooftop solar, ongoing grid modernization, and rising heat-driven cooling demand. |
| Hong Kong | 78/100 | Hong Kong has solid grid resilience and strong engineering capacity, with transition shaped by import dependence and cooling demand. |
| Dubai | 78/100 | Dubai has very strong solar resource and large-scale renewable projects, balanced by structural cooling demand and resource-import dynamics. |
| São Paulo | 78/100 | São Paulo benefits from a comparatively low-carbon national electricity baseline led by hydropower, with active work on building efficiency and distributed solar. |
| Nairobi | 76/100 | Nairobi benefits from a renewable-heavy national grid led by geothermal and hydro generation, with growing distributed solar adoption. |
| Bangkok | 72/100 | Bangkok has solid grid reliability with growing renewable build-out and active building-efficiency work in the commercial sector. |
| Mexico City | 70/100 | Mexico City has solid grid reliability with growing renewable capacity at the national level and active work on building efficiency. |
| Cape Town | 70/100 | Cape Town has solid renewable potential and active local transition work, balanced by national grid-supply variability. |
Interpretation
Energy readiness scoring weighs grid carbon intensity, building efficiency, and adaptation. San Francisco benefits from strong state and city policy. Across the indexed cities the energy average is 82/100, so San Francisco is 4 points above the median. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-05. Drawn from 3 institutional references.
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Sources
3 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.
- International Energy Agency: Empowering Urban Energy Transitions
Used to ground energy-readiness scoring in international transition guidance.
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Cost of Living in San Francisco
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Air Quality in San Francisco
Health-oriented air-quality conditions with context from WHO, EEA, and EPA benchmarks.
Safety in San Francisco
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Internet Speed in San Francisco
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Climate Risk in San Francisco
Climate exposure, hazard frequency, and adaptation context for floods, heat, storms, and wildfires.
Overall Intelligence
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Quality of Life
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