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February 23, 2010

Shocking price for Ore. e-car charging station

  • Building a solar-powered car charging station turns out to be twice as expensive as Lane Community College estimated.
    • By GREG BOLT
    The Register-Guard

    EUGENE, Ore. — Lane Community College has come face to face with one of the biggest hurdles to petroleum-free energy: expensive infrastructure.

    LCC plans to build what appears to be the Lane County area's first major electric car-charging station powered by solar energy. The idea was innovative enough to win the Eugene Water & Electric Board's first-ever Greenpower grant last year, providing $100,000 of what was expected to be an $800,000 project.


     
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