Senator Schumer at NY Biogas Plant |
Seems the cooler heads at the newly formed organization
would like to study the proposal for a couple of years. Shumer is concerned that this delay would hurt prospects of bringing in other organizations that support the nonprofit’s development concept. The Senator thinks the loss would amount to billions of dollars. So he
called up the SecArmy to inquire about perhaps getting this unscrewed. SecArmy, and former Congressman from the
region, John McHugh has not responded according to the article. Schumer has been a champion for renewable in
N.Y. This past November he interceded in
a 1.4
megawatt biogas project, ensuring that it was grid connected in time to
qualify for renewable energy credits. He gets it and he gets it done.
As part of their fund raising effort, the biomass partnership
at Watervliet competed for state funds for the cogeneration plant through N.Y. Gov.
Andrew Cuomo's local economic development council. $800 million in funding was available, but in
competing against nine other councils around the state they did not win. The proposal for the funding listed the price
tag for the co-gen plan as $23 million.
As I mentioned in an earlier
post, the Army is getting its ducks in line to produce an IDIQ for PPAs
that would support EULs like this. It is
expected that the IDIQ RFP will be released ASAP, but will not be awarded until
FY13. And now we have SNAFU. I asked the AEITF for a comment and am still
waiting; will keep you posted. I am also
out of acronyms.
One technique of leadership is to find out which way the
crowd is going and get in front of it.
This would appear to be a perfect opportunity to for the AEITF to show
leadership. By grasping the project to
their collective breasts and charging forward there is an opportunity for a
quick win and a good friend in New York. With
the current budget struggles, that might be helpful. Will
keep an eye on this. Dan Nolan
Acronyms:
IDIQ - Indefinite
delivery/indefinite quantity
PPAs – Power
Purchase Agreement
RFP –
Request for Proposal
EUL –
Enhanced Use Lease
ASAP – As Soon
As Possible
SNAFU – Google
it
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