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The remaining sites in the top nine include 1047 E. Apache St., Apache Circle – 533 E. Apache St., and 3519 N. Hartford Ave.The redevelopment plan covered the area roughly between I-244 and 36th Street North, from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Peoria Avenue, reaching slightly into Downtown to include Storey Wrecker. The City of Tulsa met with a neighborhood advisory committee and other community members, working together to identify vacant, underutilized sites with environmental barriers to redevelopment and converting these sites to economic engines.The City-of-Tulsa-owned Evans-Fintube site, located in the Historic Greenwood District, has been chosen as the preferred site for USA BMX’s national arena and headquarters. Tulsa taxpayers voted for a sales tax increase in 2016 that included $15 million for design and construction of the facility for the private entity.Environmental cleanup is in progress at the Evans-Fintube site, and is scheduled on a timetable that will allow USA BMX to open for business in 2019. Olympic trials are planned at the site in 2020.Cleanup of asbestos and lead-based paint at the Evans-Fintube site was completed early in 2017. After some additional testing of the soil and groundwater, a request for proposals will be issued early in 2018 for cleanup of contaminants found through the testing.Environmental cleanup is complete at the former Morton Hospital site, and the Tulsa Development Authority has approved plans for a $25 million mixed-use development. Michael E. Smith, a Tulsa native and current resident of Houston, plans to build Morton’s Reserve, preserving the former h... (Tulsa Beacon)
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on June 28, could be a boon to both sectors. "It has so much in it," said Hoffman, who practices at Pullman & Comley in Hartford.Fuel cellsConnecticut's energy policies have treated fuel cells more favorably than most states, helping manufacturers like FuelCell Energy and South Windsor's Doosan install more of their clean-energy units here than in any other parts of the country, except California.But hopes of further expanding the homegrown industry were dashed late last year when the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) failed to select any of the dozen or so fuel cell projects — some looking to find buyers for as much as 20 megawatts of power — that bid into a competitive selection process for utility contracts.The fuel cell projects lost out because they submitted higher-priced bids than solar and wind developers.For example, DEEP recently disclosed that the average cost of the highest-ranked fuel cell bid was 14.3 cents per kilowatt hour, higher than solar (8.1 cents per kilowatt hour) and wind (9.9 cents per kilowatt hour).The new state law, originally proposed by Malloy, puts out to bid new long-term utility contracts with different selection criteria.In particular, it excludes solar projects, leaving the competition to fuel cells, wind power, landfill methane, anaerobic digestion and certain hydropower and biomass facilities.And while bidders will still be competing on price, new additional scoring criteria could give a leg up to fuel cells.For example, greater weight will be given to projects that improve distribution system reliability; fuel cells are considered a steadier source of power than many other renewables like wind and solar, which depend on weather conditions to produce energy.It's not yet clear when DEEP would open up the new bidding process but the agency could select as much as 1,100 gigawatt hours worth of generation, which equals 4 percent of the total electricity distributed annually by utilities Eversource and Avangrid.Utilities could finance or even own an additional 30 megawatts of fuel cells."The short answer is it's a big opportunity," said Arthur "Chip" Bottone, CEO of FuelCell Energy.The new bidding process could revive the prospects of a 63-megawatt fuel cell park proposed in Beacon Falls, which was sidelined last year after DEEP didn't select it for any long-term utility contracts, Bottone said.Torrington's O&G Industries an... (Hartford Business)
