Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, visited Orlando this month to congratulate the city on its immense efforts to fight the threat of climate change.
The city of Orlando can count itself among twenty-five other cities selected to participate in the American Cities Climate Challenge. This is held through Bloomberg Philanthropies. The program in particular will ensure technical assistance and resources to the cities, including Orlando, which will receive $2.5 million to help combat climate change.
Bloomberg’s American Cities Climate Challenge grant asks cities to fight climate change and awards grants to those increasing their climate change efforts, such as reducing carbon emissions.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer met with Bloomberg and they visited the city’s Utility Commission’s Gardenia Operations Facility. The top of the line facility holds some impressive technology, including a weather station. The weather station will be installed throughout Central Florida and is designed to predict cloud cover.
Bloomberg took a unique tour of the Emerging Technologies Research and Development Laboratory and got to lay eyes on OUC’s 400-kW solar canopy and 31.5-kW floating solar array. These impressive projects taken on by OUC are among the first of their kind in the entire country.
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Thank goodness. OAC, the new brain trust of the Socialist Democrats, says the earth will come to the end in twelve years if we don’t do something.