The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the first proposed projects under the department’s Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative, an effort to repurpose parts of DOE-owned lands into clean energy sites.
DOE will enter into lease negotiations with both selected solar energy developers for projects within the 890 square mile Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site with a goal of producing 400 MW of solar power. NorthRenew Energy Partners proposes to install photovoltaics along with battery storage to produce 300 MW on approximately 2,000 acres of land. Spitfire proposes to install photovoltaics along with battery storage to produce 100 MW on approximately 500 acres of land.
“Tens of thousands of acres of DOE-owned land across the nation are being transformed into thriving centers of carbon-free power generation,” says U.S. Energy of Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm.
“Working closely with community leaders and private sector partners, we’re cleaning up land once used in our nuclear deterrence programs and deploying the clean energy solutions we need to help save the planet and strengthen our energy independence.”
The two selected developers will enter into negotiations with DOE to enter into leases for the development of the proposed PV projects.
As part of the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative, DOE has also issued requests for qualifications to lease land at the Hanford site in Washington, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, the Nevada National Security Site and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The department plans to announce additional selections this year.
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DOE Announces First Projects Under Clean Energy Initiative Cleanup Project
Here’s a story:
He had 3 days left until graduation.
Kendrick Castillo was 18. A robotics student. College bound. Accepted into an engineering program. The final week of school felt like countdown, not crisis.
Then a weapon appeared inside a classroom.
Students froze.
Kendrick did not.
Witnesses say he moved instantly. He lunged toward the attacker. No hesitation. No calculation.
Two other students followed his lead.
Gunfire erupted.
Kendrick was fatally sh*t.
But his movement changed the room.
Classmates were able to tackle and restrain the attacker until authorities arrived. Investigators later stated that the confrontation disrupted the attack and likely prevented additional casualties.
In seconds, an 18-year-old made a decision most adults pray they never face.
Afterward, the silence was heavier than the noise.
At graduation, his name was called.
His diploma was awarded posthumously. The arena stood in collective applause. An empty seat. A cap and gown without the student inside it.
His robotics teammates remembered him as curious. Competitive. Kind. Someone who solved problems instead of avoiding them.
He had planned to build machines.
Instead, he built a moment.
A moment that classmates say gave them time.
Time to escape.
Two points:
If you can read this without tears welling up in your eyes, you’re a far more stoic person than I.
Since Big Money has made it impossible for the United States to implement the same common-sense gun laws that exist in the rest of the planet, this story will reduplicate itself into perpetuity.
How often does this happen? How about never?
Trump loves to say that little boys go to school and come back home little girls.
He’s the most powerful person in the world for exactly one reason: We’re a nation of morons.
Two comments:
That the United States has homeless veterans is a national (and international) disgrace.
By definition, no one has the legal right to enter the U.S. illegally, but according to our constitution, everyone in America is entitled to due process.
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