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ARPA–C. The administration is proposing to house ARPA–C in the Department of Energy with several agencies pitching in funds. USGS states its initial $60 million contribution would focus on reducing “barriers between science production and user application” in the following five areas: “planning tools for habitat and biodiversity, models for drought prediction, predictive tools for fire and post-fire risk management, coastal change and vulnerability forecasts for planning and disaster response, and models to assess potential and risks for geologic storage of hydrogen, including hydrogen produced using renewable energy.”
Climate science centers. Funding for the Climate Adaptation Science Centers program would double to $84 million under the request. Of the increase, $25 million would expand work across the network of eight university-based centers, with a focus on developing “climate adaptation services” that would support natural resources management
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Unalaska geothermal power plant;
Construction begins summer 2021
Steve Sutherlin
Petroleum News
Ounalashka Corp. and Chena Power LLC, OCCP, plans to begin the first stages of construction in 2021 of an 18-to-30-megawatt geothermal energy plant on the eastern flank of the Makushin Volcano on Unalaska Island, to supply electrical power to the City of Unalaska power grid.
The partnership intends to substantially complete access road and work pad construction in the 2021 summer season, having completed environmental, archaeological, biological and physical field surveys for the road from Broad Bay to the power plant site last year, according to a May update on the project.