Department of Energy left on the table $9 billion of shovel-ready, clean-energy projects
Posted by Dick Munson on December 4th, 2009
Sean Casten, in a Grist post, explains that the Department of Energy failed to fund $9 billion of shovel-ready, clean-energy projects. No doubt it’s great news that DOE provided nine projects with a total of $150 million — and that those investments will bring forth an additional $634 million of private capital and saving 14 trillion Btus. Yet left on the table is a massive opportunity to create jobs, lower energy use, and turn the economy around. Let’s hope Congress provides more funding for such CHP, recycled energy, and district energy projects in a pending jobs bill.
