SEP Accountability Tracking Greensboro's Strategic Energy Plan

Not an official City of Greensboro product. Independently built from publicly available City documents and data by Andrew Randall / ARXI Systems, with no official affiliation. Read more → · New here? Start with the plain-language guide →

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About this tool

SEP Accountability is not an official City of Greensboro product. It is an independently built civic transparency tool, built by Andrew Randall / ARXI Systems from publicly available City documents and data, with no official affiliation with the City of Greensboro, the Office of Sustainability and Resilience, or the Community Sustainability Council.

It exists to put the City's Strategic Energy Plan (2022) and its three Annual Progress Reports (2023, 2024, 2025) side by side with independently verified public-record facts (Legistar, federal award records, live transit and air-quality data), so residents, City Council, and OSROffice of Sustainability and Resilience — the City department that runs the Strategic Energy Plan and reports on its progress. itself can see a claim's evidentiary weight at a glance rather than take every number on faith. A companion collaboration process lets OSR staff, Council, and community reviewers propose corrections with a citable source — see the collaboration guide for how that works.

In plain terms

Nobody official runs this site or reviewed it before publishing — one resident built it from public records. Every fact is marked with where it came from, so you don't have to take anything on faith: a colored tag next to each number tells you whether it's straight from a City report or something this project checked independently. New here? Read the two-minute plain-language guide first →

How to read a citation

Every figure and status badge on this site carries a small colored tag you can hover or tap:

Tiers 1–2 are the City's own reporting. Tiers 3–4 are this tool's own research, layered on top — and deliberately never rendered to look like the City said them.

Why independent research is in scope

The City's own two reports are not a complete record of its renewable-energy activity — they're what OSR chose to compile and publish. This tool surfaces true, independently-verified facts the City's own reporting omitted (a federal transit grant explicitly credited to this plan; a City-owned solar array never mentioned in either progress report) because that's part of an accountability tool's job, not scope creep. It's held to a higher bar for doing so: Tier 3/4 badges, explicit "single-source-unconfirmed" flags, and documented correction notes where earlier research turned out to be wrong (see data/SCHEMA.md).

Data gaps are shown, not hidden

Where the City's own reports don't address something — a goal with no 2025 status update, a figure the report itself says was unavailable — this tool shows that gap explicitly rather than omitting the row. A distinction is drawn between an unexplained silence ("Not Reported") and a documented deprioritization the SEP itself explains ("Deprioritized") — they are not the same finding and shouldn't read the same.

Source documents

All extracted data, with full citations, is public: data/index.json. The complete field dictionary and every evidence rule this tool follows is in data/SCHEMA.md.

Live external data sources

Beyond the four static source documents above, this tool cross-checks specific claims against live public data systems — each one verified with a real request before being wired in, not assumed to work:

Every one of these degrades gracefully if the underlying API is temporarily unavailable — it shows an explicit "unavailable" message rather than a blank page or a stale number presented as current. Full technical detail, refresh cadence, and known limitations for each source: data/SCHEMA.md.