First 50 Infrastructure Projects Contain 13 for Clean Energy or Water

First 50 Infrastructure Projects Contain 13 for Clean Energy or Water
The priority list is called Emergency and National Security Projects, and has President-elect Trump as the author. We will list the 13 clean energy or water projects below. The rest mostly involve rail or highway or waterway projects, which can save fuel, and put more people on rail transit, so they are also energy saving. This is despite the Trump administration’s removal of the Clean Energy Plan. The Emergency and National Security nature of the projects are not really described.
The plans also have some level of approval and funding besides Federal, so claiming them as Trump’s is not wholly accurate. The totals of the 50 projects are:
Total Investment: $137.5 Billion
Private Investment: 50% of the above
Total Jobs:
Direct: 193,350 job years; Indirect (est.): 241,700 job years; and Long Term: not filled out.
Here are the directly Clean Energy and Clean Water projects:
3. National Research Lab for Infrastructure: Develop and commercialize infrastructure technology for the future, will focus partly on transportation at Ohio State and Batelle Labs. Cost $2 billion, with 2,300 direct jobs.
8. NextGen Air Traffic Control System: Switch FAA from radar based to satellite based air traffic control, and increase capacity by 50%, saving fuel, and increasing safety. Cost $10 billion, with 2,300 direct jobs.
9. Plains and Eastern Electric Transmission Lines: A 720 transmission line for wind power from Oklahoma to Memphis, powering more than 1 million homes. Cost $2.5 billion, with 3,300 direct jobs, paid for by private funding.
10. Project Clean Lake Cleveland: Seven new water tunnels to prevent contaminated runoff going into Lake Erie. Cost $3 billion, with 2,150 direct jobs.
11. South Carolina Dams Accelerated Repairs: Over 600 dams might be breached causing widespread damage. Cost $850 million, with 2,200 direct jobs.
12. Hydroelectric Plants operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Replace old 80% efficient turbines with nearly 100% efficient ones, generating clean hydro power. Cost $4 billion, with 550 direct jobs.
15. Cadiz Water Conveyance Project: Capture and store renewable ground water in California’s Mojave Desert. Cost $250 million, with 5,900 direct jobs, privately funded.
16. TransWest Express Transmission Project: A high-voltage, direct current line to transmit renewable energy from Wyoming to the Desert Southwest region. Cost $3 billion, with 3,000 direct jobs and 4,000 indirect jobs, privately funded.
20. Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Sends natural gas to Virginia and North Carolina. I am assuming that the natural gas will replace coal burning. If the natural gas plants are maximum efficiency plants, they will cut CO2 emissions to lower than a third of coal. Cost, $4.5-$5 billion, with 10,000 direct job years, funded by Dominion Energy.
21. Champlain Hudson Power Express: Brings up to 1 GigaWatt of renewable power to New York metro area (as much as a nuclear reactor). Cost $2.2 billion, with 1,000 direct job years, funded by utilities.
29. Augustine Plains Ranch: Brings water to New Mexico through hydropower and solar energy. Cost, $600 million, and 600 direct jobs.
44. Huntington Beach Desalination Plant: Clean water from sea water for the Huntington Beach area. Since this is a neighboring area, I know that the opposition is the expense for water is much greater than state water, and recycled water. The assumption is that drought is not pervasive, and we have successfully saved water and are increasing water recycling. Cost $350 million, with 400 direct jobs.
49. Energy Storage and Grid Modernization: General California daytime renewable energy battery storage for saving daytime energy for energy doing evening commute, when the maximum need is. Just like early solar power users paid a lot for less efficient and costlier solar cells, waiting as long as possible to get larger, safer, cheaper batteries is most cost effective. Cost and jobs vary with the size of the project. The money could better be spent now on subsidizing more renewable power.
At the same time, Trump will deny California’s Sanctuary cities all federal funds. I can’t imagine that he means federal salaries, social security, or Medicare. Since much of federal funds are in Congressionally approved programs, Trump’s actions could be unconstitutional, to deny them for his own chosen requirement. Demanding local law enforcement to round up illegal immigrants has been shown to be illegal, since it is the responsibility of the federal government to do so.
The costs of the direct clean energy and water projects are $33.8 billion, out of the total 50 projects of $137.5 billion, or 24.6%, or a quarter.