Category: Energy
The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that Columbus, Ohio, is the winner of the Department’s Smart City Challenge. As winner of the Challenge, which attracted 78 applicants, Columbus will receive up to $40 million from the DOT and up to $10 million from Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. This $50 million will supplement […]
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With the recent approval by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) of a landmark power purchase agreement (PPA) between the Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) and SolarCity Corporation, construction is expected to begin soon on what the parties believe will be the world’s first dispatchable utility-scale solar array. Rather than providing power
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On March 7, I wrote about the high quantity of natural gas in storage this winter. Because natural gas is the fuel most prevalently used to generate electricity in most parts of the country, an increase in stored natural gas is likely due, at least in large part, to a decrease in withdrawals
Electricity Use Falls, Prices Follow Read More »
The United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (part of the U.S. Department of the Interior) this week announced that, after four years of review, the process of delineating a Wind Energy Area off the shore of New York is complete. This process arose from an unsolicited lease application filed by the New York
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), in partnership with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., has announced seven finalist cities, from a field of 78 submittals in a nationwide competition, for the DOT’s Smart City Challenge. The Smart City Challenge is designed to help cities begin to address the challenges that many
Overwhelming Response to Federal “Smart City Challenge” Read More »
