Salt Lake City Shares $2.5 Million Solar Power Subsidy
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By The Salt Lake Tribune  Jun. 21--The U.S. Department of Energy has named Salt Lake City among 13  cities nationally to share $2.5 million to increase the use of solar power.
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Solar-wafer maker allays investor concerns of rising costs.
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Hoping to keep a team in Major League Soccer's smallest market, the Utah House endorsed a $35 million plan Thursday that pays for a parking garage and land for a stadium in Sandy, ending days of debate over whether the project deserves public aid.
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Blog: Financing solar projects is critical to adoption of solar, experts contend. Tioga Energy launches with $10 million.
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By P.J. Lassek, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 2--River Parks received $20,000 on Thursday from American Electric Power-Public Service Company of Oklahoma to pay for temporary cofferdams that will allow engineers to assess what repairs are needed on the Zink Lake low-water dam.
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SALT LAKE CITY - The first solar-wind samples recovered from the crashed Genesis space capsule have been sent to researchers in California.
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By Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  A bill that would earmark the money from a $10 vehicle registration-fee increase, approved last year in Salt Lake County to buy land for the proposed Mountain View Corridor, has surfaced in recent days on the Hill.
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Salt Lake County is moving forward on a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.  Thanks to a $250,000 grant through the state, the county can hire 20 full-time AmeriCorps volunteers. The volunteers will work with high-risk populations to keep them off the streets and put them into a home.
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Let's see. Real Salt Lake soccer has never shown a profit. Last year it lost $10 million. It is asking Salt Lake taxpayers for $45 million but will still need an additional $10 million (which it does not have) to start the stadium.
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(InfoWorld) - Google on Monday turned on the solar panels covering nearly all the roof space on its corporate campus and announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over $10 million in grants to support hybrid cars. The announcements follow one last week made from Google's offices in Mountain View, California that launched an industry-wide initiative around improving the energy efficiency of PCs and servers. The solar panels, which make up the largest solar installation on a corporate campus in the U.S., produce 1.6 megawatts of energy, enough to supply about one-third of Google's energy use on the campus, said Jacquelline Fuller, a Google spokeswoman. In addition to the solar panels, Google has also unveiled a new employee parking garage where drivers can charge their plug-in cars, powering up their batteries using solar energy. Plug-ins are hybrid cars that users can drive in all-electric mode for around 30 miles before relying on the gas engine. Because automobile manufacturers aren't producing plug-ins, Google is converting hybrid cars into plug-ins. So far, it has converted four Toyota Prius and two Ford Escapes, Fuller said. On its RechargeIT Web site, Google is posting data on the performance of the cars. Eventually, the company plans to have 100 such plug-in cars that employees who take public transportation to the office will be able to use to run errands during their work days as part of a car-sharing program. The announcements about the changes to the corporate campus were part of the launch of the RechargeIT Initiative by Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the company, on Monday. The plan includes several efforts mainly around plug-in cars, starting with grants already dispersed to a variety of groups. Google.org has given $200,000 each to the Brookings Institute in support of a conference next year about federal policy to promote plug-in vehicles and CalCars for the continuation of its educational initiatives about the cars. The Electrical Power Research Institute, Plug-In America, Rocky Mountain Institute, and a professor at the University of Delaware all have also received grants for their plug-in car projects. In addition, Google.org has earmarked $10 million for investments in companies and projects that support alternative transportation that reduces the use of fossil fuels and emissions. Later this summer the company plans to formally request proposals for the grant money. Last week, Google hinted at the impending launch of environmental initiatives when it hosted the introduction of theÂ Climate Savers Computing Initiative. That group, which includes a who's-who list of the technology industry such as Intel, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard, is setting a series of standards that will incrementally improve the efficiency of power cords used on PCs and servers through 2010.
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By Anonymous  The Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City has launched a matching grant program for tenants that are forced to move by the redevelopment of the socalled Granite Block at 2100 South and McClelland Street in Sugar House.
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By Steve Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  May 31--DRAPER -- After Friday, new-home buyers in Salt Lake County's  south end will have to fork over an extra $1,000.    The South Valley Sewer District has raised its connection fees for  just-built abodes from $2,925 to $3,921.
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The five-decade quest for cheap solar power has produced an alternative energy that's still about four times more expensive than conventional electricity. But a group of local physicists, engineers and astronomers hope to be the first to break the cost barrier of solar energy.
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By The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 7--Just because the Utah Senate rebuffed a proposal to fund transit  and road projects through sales tax increases doesn't mean the issue is dead,  say business lobbyists.
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Real Goods Solar gets ready to join the mix.
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Let the sun shine in: Government buildings in the city are poised to go solar as part of Mayor Bloomberg's grand plan to turn the city green.
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By Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  A simple plan to ask voters to approve a tax hike to build new TRAX lines in Salt Lake County has become a lot more complicated because of a bill passed Tuesday by the Utah Legislature.