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FHWA Provides Emergency Funds to Repair Flood-Damaged Roads in Missouri

May 7, 2019 - in Financial, News

The Federal Highway Administration issued $2 million “quick release” Emergency Relief funds to the Missouri Department of Transportation on May 3 to help repair roads damaged by widespread flooding back in March that affected several states throughout…

New York Initiates $144.6M Transportation Infrastructure Spending Effort

April 30, 2019 - in Financial, News

The state of New York recently gave the green light to $144.6 million worth of infrastructure investment for 72 projects supporting the construction of…

Energy Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania Receives $30 Million Gift

April 26, 2019 - in Financial, News

PHILADELPHIA — The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania today received an anonymous $30 million gift that will support…

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao Announces Availability of $900 Million in Infrastructure Grant Funds

April 23, 2019 - in Financial, News

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has formally announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to apply for $900 million in discretionary grant funding through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation…

USDOT Unveils $900M BUILD Grant NOFO

April 23, 2019 - in Financial, News

The U.S. Department of Transportation published a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register on April 18 for $900 million worth of fiscal year 2019 Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development or BUILD transportation grants. [Above photo…

Wärtsilä Continues to Invest in a 100% Renewable Energy Future by Providing Seed Funding to Soletair Power Oy

April 15, 2019 - in Financial, News

The technology group Wärtsilä has agreed to provide EUR 500,000 in seed funding to Soletair Power Oy, a Finland based startup company operating in the field of Power-to-X. Soletair Power Oy has developed a unique concept to improve air quality in buildings…

U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $1.36 Billion Funding Allocation for 16 New and Existing Transit Projects Nationwide

April 11, 2019 - in Financial, News

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a total of $1.36 billion in federal funding allocations to 16 new and existing transit projects in the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. FTA…

Total Corporate Funding in the Solar Sector Comes to $2.8 Billion in Q1 2019, Reports Mercom Capital Group

April 10, 2019 - in Financial, News

AUSTIN, Texas  – Mercom Capital Group a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the global solar sector in the first quarter of 2019. Total corporate funding…

FHWA Issues ATCMTD Grants, Releases $25M to Nebraska for Flood Repairs

April 8, 2019 - in Financial, News

Eight state departments of transportation were among the recipients of $53.2 million in Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment or ATCMTD grants issued April 1 by the Federal Highway Administration. [Above photo via Pexel.]…

IFC Invests US$ 288 million in GNA I Thermal Power Plant to Support the Diversification of Brazil’s Energy Supply

April 4, 2019 - in Financial, News

São Paulo — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a US$288 million 15-year loan to UTE GNA I Geração de Energia (GNA I) for the development, construction and operation of an integrated liquefied natural gas to power (LNG-to-power) facility…