Anyone who has driven by the site already knows this but construction has been awarded to Turner Construction. It’s their second project on campus after the CoE Building. They also have worked on a few college football stadiums too, so they have to be considered a potential to be awarded the stadium contract as well.
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2010/02/08/daily30.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/01/09/1966977/duke-energy-progress-could-announce.html
Charlotte, soon to be the center of the Power Production world?
clt anticipates unc-ch opening an electrical engineering program in charlotte soon.
Over my dead body.
[quote=“cltniners, post:3, topic:22375”]clt anticipates unc-ch opening an electrical engineering program in charlotte soon.[/quote]They are too liberal of a school to deal with actual tangible ideals beyond the medical field.
The news last reported that the combined company would keep the Progress namesake, but be based in Charlotte. Similar to when First Union bought Wachovia. But this article seems to say otherwise.
Duke Energy’s press release says they’ll be called Duke Energy.
http://www.duke-energy.com/progress-energy-merger/?promo=duke-progress-merger-map-1&f=lg
Neither Rodgers or Johnson is worthy of carrying Bill Lee’s jock strap.
[quote=“Normmm, post:6, topic:22375”]The news last reported that the combined company would keep the Progress namesake, but be based in Charlotte. Similar to when First Union bought Wachovia. But this article seems to say otherwise.[/quote]All I’ve seen from the beginning was that it would keep the Duke name. The First Union name was soiled, that is the only reason they took on the Wachovia name.
I’m not surprised to see this happen as both companies have chosen nuclear energy as their preferred method of production for the futre. Nuclear energy is prohibitively expensive as it has by far the highest capital expense (even higher than solar) and cannot be built without tens of billions of dollars of capital. Neither would have been able to complete their nuclear objectives without government loan backing and incentives, and honestly probably still will not.
This is a very good thing for Charlotte. The energy hub is coming together nicely. I hope we can attract at least one large solar and one large wind manufacturer to the area as well. If we can be a national leader in financial, transportation, and energy, we’ll have one of the most diverse and cutting edge economies in the nation.
There have been rumors that one of the largest solar manufacturers may move their U.S. HQ to Charlotte, but I have not heard anything on that for a while.
With so many nuclear service companies in Charlotte (Shaw, Siemens, GE, Tosbiba, Areva) and now the largest utility provider in the U.S. (who relies heavily on nuclear), I wonder if we start up a nuclear engineering program.
Over NC State’s cold dead hands. Though they would be easier to kill than Chapel Hill.
Don’t look for solar or wind in the near future. No one wants windmill’s in their sounds on on their mountainsides and the amount of energy they produce per unit of land they occupy is minimal. That problem is several times worse for industrial level solar energy. It’s more economical to put solar panels and a windmill on your roof than it would ever be to have large scale solar and wind farms.
Nuclear is coming up strong right now. Look for that in the coming years.
It’s more economical to put solar panels and a windmill on your roof than it would ever be to have large scale solar and wind farms.[/quote]
This is somewhat correct, but you run into economies of scale. A small scale solar project for a home costs 1-2 dollars more per watt than a commercial or utility sized system. The beauty of solar though is that you can put it at the source of consumption cutting down on transmission costs
My company will be building out approximately 300 megawatts of utility scale solar arrays (occupying 6-20 acres each) across the midwest and mid atlantic over the next 5 years. Because of the scale of the project, we are able to offer electricity to the utilities for approximately .08 per kwh. For a residential system, this would be .14-17 per kwh. Although the arrays will not be powering individual buildings directly, the arrays will be installed in the towns using the power. Instead of transmitting electricity over hundreds of miles and losing much of the generated power in the transmission, the power will be transmitted only a handful of miles.
For our commercial clients, we are able to offer in between the two on power purchase agreements.
I’d love to set something up with the university, but NC is a tough market for solar because of the low power rates, although I’m unsure what the commercial rates are in NC. We did an awesome looking array on top of the University of Delaware Fieldhouse (basketball arena).
We did just do a 500kW array on top of the Terry Sanford building in Raleigh however, so it is not impossible to make the numbers work in NC.
I’m thinking a 49kW array would look pretty nice on campus 8)
Over NC State’s cold dead hands. Though they would be easier to kill than Chapel Hill.
Don’t look for solar or wind in the near future. No one wants windmill’s in their sounds on on their mountainsides and the amount of energy they produce per unit of land they occupy is minimal. That problem is several times worse for industrial level solar energy. It’s more economical to put solar panels and a windmill on your roof than it would ever be to have large scale solar and wind farms.
Nuclear is coming up strong right now. Look for that in the coming years.[/quote]
I was at a presentation regarding the EPIC building and they said that for every nuclear engineer the graduates from NC State, there needs to be 50 engineers to support him. We will be providing many of those engineers.
The U did not send out a press release but today, Nancy Sutley, chair of White House Council on Environmental Quality, will visited our campus to meet with UNC Charlotte Engineering students.
Here is some coverage from Susan Stabley (@CBJgreennews ) via Twitter. We have invited President Obama to the ribbon cutting of the EPIC building.
I have a feeling this building is going to turn out to be pretty epic. [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23UNCC]#UNCC[/url] [url=http://plixi.com/p/73081624]http://plixi.com/p/73081624[/url] Environmental Policy Adviser Sutley at UNCC for presentation on energy harvesting via building envelopes. [url=http://plixi.com/p/73082658]http://plixi.com/p/73082658[/url] Also here for Sutley visit: [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23meckbocc]#meckbocc[/url] chair Roberts and reps from Perdue, Hagan, Watts, NC energy offices. [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23UNCC]#UNCC[/url] Cool! UNCC grad students tested a tidal power generator at the US Whitewater Center. [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23clt]#clt[/url] [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23charlotte]#charlotte[/url] [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23UNCC]#UNCC[/url] UNCC also researching hydrogen and fuel cell technology, looking at real estate applications. Also eyeing biomass. [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23UNCC]#UNCC[/url] [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23charlotte]#charlotte[/url] UNCC gas turbine research includes Siemens, which expanded Charlotte plant for turbine manufacturing. [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23cltbiz]#cltbiz[/url] [url=http://plixi.com/p/73085556]http://plixi.com/p/73085556[/url] What a great opportunity for the UNCC students - talking to the woman who talks to the President about the environment! [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23charlotte]#charlotte[/url] [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23UNCC]#UNCC[/url] UNCC has extended invite to Sutley -- and President Obama -- to come to ribbon cutting for EPIC Center. [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23charlotte]#charlotte[/url] [url=http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23UNCC]#UNCC[/url] Sutley's final comment to UNCC energy engineering students: "The world needs all of you."Sorry about the format.
Siemens and Duke are giving a crazy amount of money toward that EPIC center. This, along with the other planned future reasearch building will make our campus stick out. UNC-Tarholes don’t know a flip about the energy field or productive research in the engineering field.
They don’t know engineering. Period. Our competition in Engineering is NCSU.
clt says that duke has a decent little engineering program as well.
clt is correct. Duke’s engineering program is in the top 25 nationally. NC State’s is not. State graduates will tell you (and they actually believe) that they have a top 5 engineering program in the country. I had one try to tell me once that they were 2nd behind MIT. :)) :)) :)) :))
Duke however, is not much of a threat for your average student as it is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people and their program is much smaller than a school the size of Charlotte or State.
[quote=“Niner National, post:18, topic:22375”]clt is correct. Duke’s engineering program is in the top 25 nationally. NC State’s is not. State graduates will tell you (and they actually believe) that they have a top 5 engineering program in the country. I had one try to tell me once that they were 2nd behind MIT. :)) :)) :)) :))
Duke however, is not much of a threat for your average student as it is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people and their program is much smaller than a school the size of Charlotte or State.[/quote]
LOL. Isn’t State also ranked LOWER than GA Tech, VA Tech, and Clemson in Engineering?
10% of NASCAR engineers come from UNC-Charlotte.
Also, I dont worry about competition at MIT because a majority of those graduates are so ridiculously smart that they stay buried in research and never get out into industry where you learn more than ever. I talked to Duke Energy and they said they like to get a lot of engineers from Charlotte because they know the program very well and the hardest workers come from our engineering department.