I hope this turd gets torn down and redeveloped (like the coal-fired plant on the Alexandria waterfront). Aside from the global warming and air quality issues of coal, this is an extremely inefficient and poor use of land that is a ten minute walk from three metro stations. Good riddance!
Just Across Town, a Test of Obama’s Emissions Goals
By ERIN BANCO
August 8, 2013
New York Times
The Capitol Power Plant is the largest single source of carbon emissions in the nation's capital. (Image courtesy of the New York Times)
"WASHINGTON — As part of the climate change agenda he unveiled this year, President Obama made a commitment to significantly reduce the federal government’s dependence on fossil fuels. The government, he said in a speech in June at Georgetown University, “must lead by example.”
But just two miles from the White House stands the Capitol Power Plant, the largest single source of carbon emissions in the nation’s capital and a concrete example of the government’s inability to green its own turf.
The plant, which provides heating and cooling to the sprawling Capitol campus — 23 buildings that include the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court and Congressional office buildings, in addition to the Capitol building itself — is operated by Congress, and its transition to cleaner energy sources has been mired in national politics for years. But the failure of Congress to modernize its own facility also raises questions about the Obama administration’s ability to limit emissions from existing power plants when it has not been able to do so at a government-run facility so close to home..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/us...nted=1&_r=0&hp
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