[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ENERGY: Former Philly Navy Yard to become energy research center

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Philadelphia Navy Yard Reborn as $122 Million Energy Innovation Hub

Tina Casey
Clean Technica
September 28, 2010

The Philadelphia Navy Yard, once home mainly to mothballed ships and 
notorious for asbestos contamination, has undergone a gradual 
transformation in the last ten years since the site was cleaned up and 
new businesses moved in. Now things are really starting to heat up. The 
U.S. Department of Energy will put up $122 million for a new "Energy 
Innovation Hub" to be located at the Navy Yard, featuring a partnership 
between United Technologies and Pennsylvania State University.

The Philadelphia Navy Yard and New Green Jobs

At its peak during World War II, the Philadelphia Navy Yard had a 
workforce of 40,000, but things trickled down to a crawl after the war 
and the last Navy ship was built there in 1970. The site was cleaned up 
in the 199's and by 2000 the first of about 80 new businesses started to 
move in.  The current workforce is about 7,500, and that seems due to 
shoot up with additional clean energy investments. Aside from new green 
jobs generated by the Energy Hub, the Navy Yard has just been tapped to 
host the largest urban solar energy installation in the U.S.

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For the entire article, see
http://cleantechnica.com/2010/09/28/philadelphia-navy-yard-reborn-as-122-million-energy-innovation-hub/

See also
http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news14968.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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