UK Awarded Federal Energy Grant
- {Kentucky}...Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded a four-year $14.5 million federal grant to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The money will be used by a division of UK's Center for Applied Energy Research that focuses on developing technology that produces cleaner energy from Kentucky coal. The grant, the largest federal grant in the Lexington center's 30-plus year history, will be used to develop technology that can capture most of the carbon dioxide emitted from coal-fired power plants without increasing the cost of electricity by more than a third. Governor Steve Beshear says the grant "is good news for all Kentuckians."
