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Report Card for D.C.’s Infrastructure

Monday, January 18th, 2016

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (ASCE)
NATIONAL CAPITAL SECTION
The District of Columbia has 265 bridge structures; 226 of the bridges are owned by the D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the remaining 39 are owned by the National Park Service (NPS). The average age of a bridge in D.C. is 58 years, and 80% of the bridges will need to be replaced or rehabilitated in the next 10 years. However, the District made significant strides to reduce the number of structurally deficient bridges from 8% to 3% in just three years. Despite this progress, more than 220,000 trips are taken over a structurally deficient bridge every day and a quarter of bridges have at least one major component in fair condition.

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Tags: American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, D.C., District of Columbia, National Capital Section, Report Card, Washington
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bridges, Energy, Highway, Infra Views, Levees, Local, Public Transportation, Roads, Schools, Solid Waste, Transit

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Benefits and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

Figure ES-1. Benefits and impacts of new RE used to meet 2013 RPS compliance

NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY (NREL)
State renewable portfolio standards (RPS) currently exist in 29 states and Washington, D.C. Most of these policies, enacted largely during the late 1990s and 2000s, will reach their terminal targets within the next decade. As states consider extending, eliminating, or otherwise revising existing RPS programs, or developing new ones, increasing attention is being paid to the costs, benefits, and other impacts of these policies.

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Tags: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL
Posted in Energy, Environment, Infra Views, Policy, Sustainability

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The Economic Effects of Immediately Opening Federal Lands to Oil, Gas, and Coal Leasing

Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

TABLE 1: ANNUAL IMPACT OF OPENING RESTRICTED FEDERAL LANDS TO OIL, GAS, AND COAL DEVELOPMENT ($ BILLIONS ANNUALLY, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED)

INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH
While headlines have reported declining oil, gas, and coal prices, those declines do not deter from the fact that U.S. energy resources are valuable to our domestic economic growth. The most recent government estimate of those benefits was a 2012 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study, produced at the request of the House Budget Committee, which analyzed federal lease revenues that could be expected to arise from a proposal to open federal lands and waters to oil, gas, and coal extraction.

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Tags: Fossil Fuels, Gas, IER, Institute for Energy Research, Oil
Posted in Competitiveness, Energy, Infra Views, National, Policy, Recovery

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Economic Effects of Oil & Gas Exploration in the South Atlantic

Wednesday, December 30th, 2015

Figure 1 VA, NC, SC, and GA Ocean Economy: 2012 Employment; Figure 2 VA, NC, SC, and GA Ocean Economy: 2012 GDP

MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY
CENTER FOR THE BLUE ECONOMY
In 2013, the American Petroleum Institute and the National Ocean Industries Association, oil and gas industry groups, commissioned Quest Offshore Resources, Inc., to prepare a report (the Quest report) on the economic impacts of offshore drilling in the Atlantic. This report has been widely cited to make the case for opening the Southeast to oil and gas development based on significant local, state, and regional benefits from drilling…This summary identifies issues with the Quest report that lead to significant overestimates of the economic impacts of offshore drilling in the Atlantic and provides an overview of the existing ocean economy of the South Atlantic region in order to provide the context of the industries that could be vulnerable to disruptions from oil and gas activity.

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Tags: American Petroleum Institute, CBE, Center for the Blue Economy, Drilling, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, MIIS, Oceans, South Atlantic
Posted in Energy, Environment, Infra Views, Local, Sustainability

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Report Card for Alabama’s Infrastructure

Tuesday, December 29th, 2015

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (ASCE)
ALABAMA SECTION
The bad news is that Alabama’s infrastructure has some challenges that you should know about before it’s too late to keep these systems from breaking down. Infrastructure deteriorates every single day as it ages, just as our bodies do, and many of these critical systems are reaching the end of their useful life…The good news is there are solutions to all these challenges , and we can raise Alabama’s infrastructure grades. By learning more today about the conditions of the infrastructure you use every day, you too can help raise the grade.

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Tags: AL, Alabama, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, Report Card
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Aviation, Bridges, Congestion, Dams, Drinking Water, Energy, Funding, Infra Views, Inland Waterways, Local, Rail, Roads, Seaports, Transit, Wastewater

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2045: State of Hawaii Energy Resources

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

HAWAII STATE ENERGY OFFICE
The past year marks a turning point in the history of energy in Hawaii. Since the establishment of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative in 2008, the state has been moving from fossil fuels to clean energy sources. Building on tremendous progress in recent years, in 2015 the state accelerated its commitment to an unprecedented level: 100 percent renewable energy in the electricity sector by 2045. This report details Hawaii’s efforts to increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, and the regulatory, technical and practical efforts required to make this world’s-first ambition possible.

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Tags: Energy Resources Coordinator, ERC, Hawaii, Hawaii State Energy Office, HI, HSEO
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Infra Views, Local, Sustainability

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Washington, DC: Putting Power Lines Underground

Monday, December 21st, 2015

The DC Power Line Undergrounding (DC PLUG) project represents a public-private partnership between the District government and Pepco that will result in the strategic undergrounding of overhead feeders in Wards 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8…Through this initiative, the high-voltage feeders most affected by outages will be installed underground. Approximately half of the District is already served by undergound lines. Secondary and service lines will remain overhead on the existing poles.

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Tags: DC PLUG, DDOT, DDOTVideos, District Department of Transportation, Pepco, Power Lines, Resiliency, Video, Washington DC
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Local, Show Us Your Infra, Urban Planning

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A Tale of Three Markets: Comparing the Solar and Wind Deployment Experiences of California, Texas, and Germany

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

Figure 1: Map of Solar PV Resource Quality – U.S. and Germany20

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STEYER-TAYLOR CENTER FOR ENERGY POLICY AND FINANCE
The Obama administration has repeatedly identified the large-scale build-out of clean, renewable energy infrastructure as a key priority of the United States. The President’s calls for a cleaner energy economy are often accompanied by references to other industrialized countries such as Germany, the world’s 4th largest economy, hailed by many as a leader in renewable energy deployment and proof of concept. Indeed, the share of renewables in Germany’s electricity generation mix (28% ) is twice that of the United States (14% ), and the ambitious „Energiewende“ commits the country to meeting 80% of its electricity needs with renewables by 2050. The German renewables experience, however, is not without its critics.

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Tags: California, Germany, PV, Solar Energy, Stanford University, Steyer-Tayler Center for Energy Policy & Finance, Texas, Wind Energy
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global, Infra Views

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Fuel Economy State of the World 2016

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

FIGURE 1 Global passenger light duty vehicle stock out to 2050

GLOBAL FUEL ECONOMY INITIATIVE
Vehicles play a vital role in our economic and social prosperity, connecting people, goods and places. However, to prevent dangerous climate change the vehicles of the future must be more efficient and less polluting. The Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) brings together technical and policy experts to show how to achieve this and to support governments and the private sector to make this happen.

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Tags: Efficiency, Emissions, Fuel Economy, GFEI, Global Fuel Economy Initiative
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global, Infra Views, Pollution

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NYC’s Underground Park: Touring the Lowline Test Lab

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

A test lab for the Lowline – the world’s first underground park – opens its doors to visitors in New York tomorrow. Here, founder James Ramsey leads us on an exclusive tour of the 1,200 sq m garden, which brings his vision to turn a disused trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street into a public green space closer to reality.

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Tags: Lowline, New York City, NYC, Solar, The Spaces
Posted in Energy, Environment, Local, Public Parks & Recreation, Show Us Your Infra, Urban Planning

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Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category

Report Card for D.C.’s Infrastructure

Benefits and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards

The Economic Effects of Immediately Opening Federal Lands to Oil, Gas, and Coal Leasing

Economic Effects of Oil & Gas Exploration in the South Atlantic

Report Card for Alabama’s Infrastructure

2045: State of Hawaii Energy Resources

Washington, DC: Putting Power Lines Underground

A Tale of Three Markets: Comparing the Solar and Wind Deployment Experiences of California, Texas, and Germany

Fuel Economy State of the World 2016

NYC’s Underground Park: Touring the Lowline Test Lab

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InfrastructureUSA.org is a non-profit, online community whose mission is to bring together infrastructure experts, industry leaders, government officials and most especially interested citizens, to participate in vigorous conversation and generate action to address the U.S. infrastructure crisis.

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